The InsightsX Lab is the Data Science hub to connect the analytics community and academic fraternity with organizations willing to derive insights from their data. The lab enables academic researchers and the data science community in the UAE to help companies understand how to better monetize their data through the development and application of new predictive models and analytical approaches. The strategic partner for this initiative is Beinex (https://www.beinex.com) and they bring in the analytical transformation expertise for the lab and its events.
The InsightsX Lab acts as a data translator to convert the business requirements from various firms in the UAE to data science questions that could be cracked by the crowdsourcing model (analytics community). It also provides expert analytics consulting, corporate training in data science, and knowledge sharing sessions.
The following are the key offerings of the InsightsX Lab: Datathons (Data Hackathons), Use Case Nights (Experts in action), Training/Consulting (Lab experts providing services), and Data Science Meetups.
Where can you contribute?
Membership: If you wish to become a member of this lab and community, please check “Become a Member” tab for registration- Its free, and it always will be. Also like our facebook page for details on workshops, events and datathons: https://www.facebook.com/mdxinsightslab
Corporate Data Partner: If you are an organization willing to bring in a data-set for our community to crack and derive insights, please contact Dr Krishnadas Nanath (mdxinsightslab@mdx.ac.ae) for becoming a corporate data partner.
Data Science Expert: If you wish to contribute as a Data Science expert for conducting guest sessions or workshops as part of the lab, please send an email to mdxinsightslab@mdx.ac.ae.
For any other way of collaboration and contribution, please contact
Dr Krishnadas Nanath
Head and Founder - Middlesex Insights Lab
k.nanath@mdx.ac.ae & mdxinsightslab@mdx.ac.ae
Mob: +971 554360019
The Lab is supported by the Centre for Innovation in Human Experience along with Robotech Lab and Immersive VR Lab.
Upcoming Events
Middlesex University Dubai integrates with various organisations and organises multiple events on campus for both our students and for corporates.
Past Events
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Strategic Partnership with Beinex
November 2019
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Beinex funded the Insights Lab for bringing in datasets from various organizations and organizing hackathons.
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Tableau Hands-on Workshop
November 2019
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The members of the Insights Lab, MBA Analytics students, MSc Data Science students and MA HRM students attended a Tableau hands-on workshop organized by the Insights Lab.
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Middlesex Insights Lab welcomes Dr Amit Garg (world record holder in Maths) for Guest Session Series
January 2020
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MDX Insights Lab welcomed Dr. Amit Garg, a world record holder in Mathematics to talk about problem-solving, Data Science and Optimization at Middlesex University Dubai.
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Insights Lab Workshop on – Data Visualization in R by Prof. Zheng Zhu
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Insights Lab organized a workshop (complete hands-on) on “Data Visualziation in R” delivered by Prof. Zheng Zhu.
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Insights Lab Certification Course- Analytics in Finance
January 2020
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Insights Lab offered a certification course- Data Analyics in Finance. This course was facilitated and designed by Dr. Supriya Kaitheri
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Team Amazon @ MDX – Amazon Web Services Workshop
February 2020
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Insights Lab organized a workshop on Amazon Web Services and Team Amazon (Ahmed Raafat , Senior Architect: AWS) did this workshop for 80+ members of the Insights Lab.
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Insight Lab Webinar Series: Insights Hour Episode 1
20 May 2020
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Insights Lab organized its first webinar series with Mr. Dinesh Varma giving a talk on Data-driven decision strategy
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Insight Lab Webinar Series: Insights Hour Episode 2
14 June 2020
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Mr. Ahmed Raafat from Amazon explored fraud detection in the second episode of Insights Hour.
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Insight Lab Food Safety Hackathon
August – October 2020 |
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Insights Lab organized a global virtual hackathon on Food safety sponsored by Beinex and Rubics Smart Solutions. A total of 170 teams participated worldwide.
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Corporate Training Program Emirates NBD
Dr Krishnadas Nanath organized digital transformation and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) training program for ENBD future managers. This was part of the Tanfeeth initiative by Emirates NBD to train their future managers on analytics and data driven decisions.
Consulting Project for Majid Al Futtaim: 3 months
Middlesex Insights Lab is currently engaged with Majid Al Futtaim for a consulting project with the School of Analytics. Dr. Krishnadas Nanath (head of Insights Lab) is the lead consultant for this project.
Corporate Training for Petroleum Development Oman - Oct 2019
Dr Krishnadas Nanath executed a corporate training program on Data Science for Petroleum Development Oman as part of their analytical transformation journey. This training was offered in PDO, Muscat in October 2019.
Corporate Training Program for First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB)
Insights Lab faculty team (Dr Krishnadas Nanath and Mohammed Osman) developing a 3 day data science program for FAB in November 2019. The main aim of this program was to scale up the analytics using Big Data and automation.
Corporate Training Program ADNOC – Data Science
Dr Krishnadas Nanath organized a one day data science (Oil and Gas Sector) workshop for ADNOC in the Abu Dhabi Headquarters.
Kindly sign-up as a member of this lab to receive information on upcoming events, workshops and datathons.
As part of Insights Lab, we wish to contribute meaningful content that can be helpful for Data Science community. If you wish to contribute a blog, an article, or a dataset that we can include in our publciations ahead, please write to mdxinsightslab@mdx.ac.ae
P1: 25 Amazing Open Datasets in the UAE
Find your way through the best and handpicked datasets in the United Arab Emirates Context. Each dataset comes with a description, attributes, landing page, data science questions and other assocaoted information.
The lab is supported by a network of partners and industry experts on the Advisory Board panel. Our strategic partner for this initiative is Beinex and they bring in the analytical transformation experience to the lab.
Strategic Partner: Middlesex Insightsx Lab
About Beinex: “At Beinex, we help organizations transform the way they work with data. We are a premier analytics and digital transformation organization enrooted with ideas and innovation. Our broad range of Analytics modernization and training services will empower organizations to forge an intelligent and agile enterprise by making data a competitive advantage. Our team works with organizations to bring intelligence that drives value for their business through AI, ML and RPA.”
HR Analytics Partner
Analytics and Insights Partner
Analytics and Insights Partner
Innovation Partner
Machine Learning Partner
Advisory Board
Indumon Das
Founder,Managing Director @ Beinex, Tableau Gold Partner, Alteryx
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Areas of Expertise for Insights Lab: Strategic Partner Head and Analytics Expert.
Pavel Nesterov
Principal Data Scientist at Reaktor
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Areas of Expertise for Insights Lab: Kaggle Master, Deep Learning and Computer Vision Expert; Community Head
Hanadi El Sayyed
Founder at &humans Consulting
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Areas of Expertise for Insights Lab: HR Analytics and Research
Wissam Kadi
Global Director, SAP Next-Gen Labs
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Areas of Expertise for Insights Lab: Sustainability Champion and data for good.
Anup Namboodiri
Senior Client Advisor - UAE Government Sector, SAS
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Areas of Expertise for Insights Lab: Analytics in Govt. Sector and Data Science using SAS.
Abboud George Ghanem
RVP, Middle East & Africa at Alteryx
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Areas of Expertise for Insights Lab: Emerging tools in Analytics.
Ahmed M.Raafat
Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services.
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Areas of Expertise for Insights Lab: Analytics and ML in Cloud
Craig Steward
Managing Director: MEA
Corinium Global Intelligence
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Areas of Expertise for Insights Lab: Data Analytics Community Builder
Dr Amit Garg
Founder & Chief Scientist at ORMAE with Guinness World Record in Mathematics
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Areas of Expertise for Insights Lab: Statistical and Mathematical Insights, Problem Solving
Head of Insightsx Lab
Faculty Committee Members
Mohammad Osman
Data Scientist and Adjunct Faculty
Middlesex University Dubai
m.osman@mdx.ac.ae
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Atif Ahmad
Data Scientist and Adjunct Faculty
Middlesex University Dubai
a.ahmad@mdx.ac.ae
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Student Committee Members
Industry Data Hub & Datathons
The InsightsX Lab converts the business requirements from corporate partners into a data hub and releases it to the Data Science community via research proposals and datathons (challenges).
Use Case Nights
Data Science practitioners in the UAE are invited to share their success stories of use-case implementation as part of the knowledge sharing session in analytics.
Corporate Training and Consulting
The InsightsX Lab has an expert team of eminent Data Science professors and consultants responsible for developing and conducting corporate training programmes. Typical areas include: Data Science, AI/ML, Analytical Transformation, Visualisation, and others.
UAE Data Science Meetups
The InsightsX Lab aims to create an ongoing process for the overall development of Data Science culture in the region. Regular meetups (open and non-commercial) would help to achieve this objective.