Dr. Khalid Al-Quradaghi is currently a Visiting Scholar and Co-Director of a collaborative research project on Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The project is sponsored by Qatar Foundation (QF) and it aims to provide scientific recommendations to develop methodologies to manage and evaluate data related to STI performance. These indicators are combined with new techniques to analyze and visualize data in an interactive dashboard. Part of Dr. Khalid research work at MIT was published, in 2015, in an institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) journal in an article, titled “The Role of Communication in Supporting Innovation through Research Indicators”. IEEE is a highly ranked association dedicated to advancing innovation for the benefit of humanity and is the world’s largest technical professional society. He is in the process of publishing a new book this year to tackle the critical topic of measuring research impact as a means of developing institutional strategies. Dr. Khalid has been an expert judge for several educational and research events. He has participated in many research and scientific conferences, forums and workshops worldwide. In addition, he is a member of a number of professional Management and Innovation groups. Prior to managing the MIT project, Dr. Khalid was a Director of all research programs at Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF). In this capacity, he managed funding research proposals and he developed several new research programs. Dr. Khalid has expertise in the following topics: Organizational Leadership, Program Designing and Development, Strategic Planning and Evaluation, Performance and Indicators, Advanced Data Management, Technology and Innovation.
