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AI and Digital Science
Research Center

Who We Are

The Artificial Intelligence and Digital Science Research Center (AIDRC) is pioneering global digital transformation, through fostering the adoption of safe, sustainable, and reliable intelligent autonomous and connected systems, applications, and services. Our globally renowned AI, cyber-security, and wireless telecommunication experts work closely with key international organizations, such as ITU and 3GPP, to bring to life practical solutions to key challenges and make a profound impact to society.

AIDRC is part of the CIE, a global scientific research center attracting the world’s foremost scientists and researchers. TII leads worldwide advances in artificial intelligence, autonomous robotics, quantum computing, cryptography, and quantum communications, directed energy, secure communication, smart devices, advanced materials, and propulsion and space technologies, and biotechnology fields.

CIE belongs to the Abu Dhabi Government’s Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), which oversees the technology research in the emirate.

What We Do

We conduct breakthrough scientific research, develop innovative technologies and solutions, and validate the viability of individual concepts through experiments and field trials to create novel approaches and effective methods to facilitate their industrialization and deployment at scale.

Our breakthrough solutions find application in many fields such as Transport, Security and Defense, Manufacturing 4.0, Sustainability, Environment and Energy, Food and Agriculture, Healthcare, and Aerospace.

Artificial Intelligence Cross-Center Unit Programs

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Data-Driven Technologies & Intelligent Systems

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Computational Systems & Platforms

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Perception, Sensing & Planning

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AI Theory & Algorithms

Digital Telecom Unit Programs

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Intelligent Environments

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Next Generation Mobility Systems

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Native AI

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Advanced Platforms

Digital Security Unit Programs

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Cyber-Reasoning for Infrastructure Security

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Cyber Reasoning for Software and System Security

Artificial Intelligence Cross-Center Unit Programs

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Data-Driven Technologies & Intelligent Systems

To yield new approaches for complex and real systems and provide novel systems and technologies for challenging ML. problems

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Magnifying glass focusing on interconnected dots representing a network or data analysis.

Computational Systems & Platforms

To build scalable AI-based software stack and hardware systems that power the accelerated growth and demand of computers, mobiles, data centers, and networks including wireless networks, databases, industrial infrastructure, and software infrastructure.

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Outline of a human head with horizontal circuit lines extending from the brain area, symbolizing perception, sensing, and planning.

Perception, Sensing & Planning

To understand both the nature of human intelligence and the physical world through designing, implementing multi-disciplinary best practices (perception, sensing, cognitive, planning, language), and integrating these to replicate human-like intelligence.

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Light bulb with a checkmark inside and three connected nodes, symbolizing ideas and successful connections in AI theory and algorithms.

AI Theory and Algorithms

To the world with the best AI algorithms through novel learning approaches, statistical models, computational methods, and study the fundamental limitations and strengths of AI- based algorithms.

Digital Telecom Unit Programs

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Intelligent Environments

To actively control mmWave and THz Wireless propagation Environment for B5G/6G Mobile Networks, via Holographic MIMO (HMIMO), programmable meta surfaces a.k.a Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS). Special focus onto 3D positioning & Resource allocation to achieve trade-off QoS/QoE.

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Next Generation Mobility Systems

To solve key challenges from Internet of Senses, and Internet of Vehicles to enable NextGen Sustainable Transportation & Freight/Delivery Systems (UAV), via immersive experience (XR, haptics), C-V2X and AI.

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Native AI

Develop avant-garde communication system that understands the meaning of information and the effectiveness of transferring them, 2) Set the basis of multimodal learning for B5G radio networks, 3) Push beyond the wireless edge machine learning for dynamic split and scaling AI models on wireless telecom devices with optimization of the computation resources.

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Advanced Platforms

Develop a virtual representation (Digital Twin) of the real world, for 6G “NextGen Sustainable Smart Mobility". Develop accurate modeling to secure high precision 6G network simulation performance assessment/optimization. Develop in-house a reconfigurable and flexible Open Air interface testing platform (RF/HW/SW) to deploy and validate advanced concepts

Digital Security Unit Programs

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Cyber-Reasoning for Infrastructure Security

AI-based autonomous security system that takes complete responsibility for defending a set of software services. AI will automatically develop firewall rules to stop attack traffic, analyzing programs to find bugs before an attacker, and patching vulnerabilities in compiled programs without any access to source code. Software defenses that might take human analysts' hours, days, or weeks to develop and test will be all deployed at machine speeds, on the order of tens of seconds, with no humans in the loop.

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Cyber-Reasoning for Software & System Security

AI-based Intrusion detection and protection system (IDS/IPS) for massive IoT Networks, covering all system layers: from the perception, network protocols and application layers. The solution will run at the edge network and application levels (Hybrid mode). Once AI autonomously detects suspicious packets and behaviors, an IoT specific intrusion protection system (IPS) will trigger automatically several actions to make systems bullet-proof against the malicious actions that compromise the availability, integrity, or confidentiality of IoTs