Hosni Ghedira
Professor of Practice of Computer Vision
Research interests
Professor Ghedira has more than 20 years of experience leading and managing large-scale and multilateral research and innovation projects in the UAE. His work spans fields of technologies including space, clean energy, water resources, climate, environment, artificial intelligence, and more. He has a successful track-record in developing large-scale sponsored research programs with government, semi-government, and private entities in the UAE and the GCC, attracting more than $20m of external funding from 2012 to 2020. Email
Prior to joining MBZUAI, Professor Ghedira served as a Director of the Research Centre for Renewable Energy Mapping and Assessment at Masdar Institute from 2010 to 2020. He spent six years at the City University of New York as Assistant Professor and Research Associate Professor. Professor Ghedira was the founding Director of the Environmental Remote Sensing and Image Processing Laboratory at the NOAA Cooperative Remote Sensing Science & Technology Center (NOAA-CREST) in New York. Professor Ghedira was most recently the Director of Research Engagement at MBZUAI. He received his MSc degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Sherbrooke, Canada, in 1997, and his Ph.D. in Water Sciences from the University of Quebec, Canada, in 2001.
- Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Quebec, Canada.
- Ph.D. in Water Sciences (Earth Observation) from the University of Quebec, Canada.
- M.Sc. in Applied Sciences (Environmental Engineering) from the University of Sherbrooke, Canada.
- B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from the University of Tunis II, Tunisia.
- Nominated by Solar Quarter Magazine in the list of Most Influential Solar Business Leaders in The MENA PV Market, 2019.
- Nominated as a member of Mohammed bin Rashid Academy of Scientists (MBRAS), 2018.
Ghedira has authored and co-authored more than 140 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals and referred conference proceedings in the field of earth observation, renewable energy mapping, environmental monitoring, spatial data analysis, atmospheric and climate modeling.
- Ben-Romdhane, H., Francis, D., Cherif, C. Pavlopoulos, K., Ghedira, H., and S. Griffiths: “Detecting and predicting archaeological sites using remote sensing and machine learning”, application to the Saruq Al-Hadid site, Dubai, UAE, Geosciences 13 (6), 179, 2023.
- Abdul Gafoor, F. Al-Shehhi, N., Cho, C., and H. Ghedira: “Gradient boosting and linear regression for estimating coastal bathymetry based on sentinel-2 images”, Remote Sensing 14 (19), 5037, 2022.
- Beegum, N., A. Tuomiranta, I. Gherboudj, J. Flemming, and H. Ghedira: “Simulation of aerosol deposition flux over the Arabian Peninsula with CHIMERE-2017: Sensitivity to different dry deposition schemes”, Atmospheric Research, Volume 241, pp. 104949, 2020.
- Gherboudj, I., S. N. Beegum, and H. Ghedira: “Identifying natural dust source regions over the Middle-East and North-Africa: Estimation of dust emission potential”, Earth-Science Reviews, Vol. 165, pp. 342-355, 2017.
- Lazzarini, M., Marpu, P., and Ghedira, H.: “Temperature-land cover interactions: the inversion of Urban Heat Island phenomenon in desert city areas”, Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 130, pp 136-152, 2013.
- Ouarda, T., Charron, C., Shin, J., Marpu, P., Al-Mandoos, A., Al-Tamimi, M., Ghedira, H., Al Hosary, T.: "Probability distributions of wind speed in the UAE”, Energy Conversion and Management, Vol.93, pp 414-434, 2015,
- Eissa, Y., Marpu, P., Gherboudj, I., Ghedira, H., Ouarda, T., and Chiesa, M.: “Artificial neural network-based model for retrieval of the direct normal, diffuse horizontal and global horizontal irradiances using SEVIRI images”, Solar Energy, vol. 89, pp 1–16, 2013.