welcome back to the exclusive coverage of the fifth uh mustafa prize ceremony uh, i'm talking to you from the city of isoan in central iran and now we are joined by another guest uh mr. uh professor ahmed hasan who is another laureate of the fifth edition of the mustafa prize i welcome you to our show uh please introduce yourself to our viewers and tell us a little bit more about your. work so

so my name is ahmad hasan, i'm a professor at queens university in canada uh, i originally from egypt and uh my area of research is software engineering, in particular the use of data and ai to automate and help software developers improve the quality of software system and improve their efficiency. and professor, could you explain it a little bit to our viewers, what exactly is that? so the simplest thing you can think about it. today when you go to an online store and you buy something then the store would say oh you bought this people bought this 99% of the time bought that other thing as well okay so that relation is basically derived by mining a lot of data from lot of customers that have you bought a product well we could take the same idea and look at software developers that are changing lot of code over the years and we could tell developers oh you know people who change this file tend to change this file and you know if you mis changing this file that will cause lot of problems and

system, so we recommend you change that. great, and the final question is about the mustafa prize itself, um, as laureate, how do you see mustafa prize? buse, they call it the muslim nobel, what do you think about it? what's your assessment? so you know, it it's first, it's a great honor to win this prize right, and it's a very humbling experience, looking at prior roliets and their accomplishments and realizing as well that - lot of... the laureats that have won the mustafa prize keep on continuing to actually do awesome things right where's sometimes some of the prizes are more like you know lifelong achievements and that's it the expectations of the winner not to continue so that's one thing that i think is very unique about the mustafa price the other thing as well that i find is very unique about it is it's you know ideals and its mission right is to really highlight you know muslim researchers and as well highlight the impact and push the impact of muslim nations and

muslim researchers on the whole in the world as a whole. um, there's a lot of good talent and lot of good research happening in the muslim world and as well by muslim reachers outside of the world and having the mostafa prize along was a step program was it and along the initiatives around it is really a great way to push everything that's happening to the next level, so that's another very strong thing that's very unique about the mustafa prize. thank you so much, that was professor ahmad hasan, one of the laureates of this year's mustafa prize. now we move to our next item. in the final episode of... our special

coverage program of the fifth edition of the mustafa prize, we are hosting the laureets of this year's event and now we are joined by one of the winners of this year's eventuh professor samya huri uh from lebanon i say hello to you uh could you please introduce yourself to our viewers and uh tell us uh your area of expertise and in what field you have managed to win the award i am. professor of neurology and immunology at the american university of beirout and i am working specifically on the disease multiple sclerosis, which we say ms, and in this disease, this is the disease that affects young people mostly, and it's a chronic disease, so they have to live with, so uh, my work basically started with trying to understand understand how the disease

happens, why, how the immune system attacks the nervous system, and then trying to figure out the ways to suppress the immune system and how can we control the disease. these activity um and also because i started first comprehensive ms center in the region when i came back from harvard to lebanon in 2011 so i established a center for ms which wasn't there and we now have more than 300 patients being followed in the center and that's great and and um the next question i want to ask you is: that um when it comes to curing ms um uh do you think that in near future we will find the solution that these patients that is it's a chronic disease can we find a know

definite solution for it so that they do not need to live with ms anymore uh you know ever since i started working in ms every time people ask the same question, we say within the next 10 years, it's, so it's uh, but i think it's probably getting close, because now we have some medications where you can take them for a short period of time and then you can be controlled for many, many years and there is some uh trials now trying to figure out a way to vaccinate people against against ms, not particularly against a mess, but against virus that is very risky for. uh increases risk of ms. thank you so much, professor hudi from lebanon.

mr. ahmed fauzi ismail. as you told me before, this is not your time in iran, so tell me about first your experience in iran this time in the sit of spawn even though, this is my eighth time in iran, but the first time ever in isfahan, the first impression was, wow, exactly, it's totally different, the architecture is different, even i have seen this kind of architecture, probably the ishan people uh, work together with our young people in malaysia, they they decorate one of the tallest building, one tallest tower seen similar similarity, so this is something that very rare, your first time and the hotel was

so marvelous, great, amazing uh hotel, and was informed this hotel is not, not 100 years, not 200 years, not 300. years about 400 years, yeah, that's amazing, this is amazing, it is, it is, okay, and mr. um, ismail, um, please tell us uh about yourself a little bit, your area of experties, yeah, i my first degree is actually in petroleum engineering, and then i changed my interest into chemical engineering, and my my ph.d also in chemical engineering. during that time when i did my masters and phd, i found something very interesting, i'm developing membrane technology during my my master to separate toxic gas like carbon dioxide co2

from methane or natural gas, interesting and then i read many other manuscript that wow membrane also can be develop. to solve the basic need of the mankind that is water, exactly, so that one after my ph.d, but during my masters and ph.d study, the interesting thing that i would like to share is me and my late professor found out or discovered about four verses in the quran, the holy quran stated about membrane technology ar-rahman versus 18 to 20 and al-furqan versus number 53 mm so in the quran mentioned that there is two different type of

water they mix the meet but they did not mingle yeah because of did not transgress mingle because because of the barrier, the salties water and this sweet one, okay, because of the barrier, that barrier, the modern sign called membrane, and when during my study, did not produce a good result, so i pray to allah in my lab laboratory, for some reason allah gave me some idea to include sodium chloride or salt into my recipe to make a polymer solution, and after that subhanallah, allah gave me an idea, i made the membrane, the membrane that i produced at that time, the result was three to four times better than the commercially available membrane those days, right? it's one of the reason that i strongly believe insya-allah those to discovered thing and i encourage

scientist or whoever read the quran, not only read to know, but read to understand, and insyaallah you can find develop something that i have experienced before, and that drive me from that point of time until today, alhamdulillah, i'm here now, great, and the final question i want to ask you is about. the mustafa prize itself, how do you find it? and um, one of the goals of the mustafa prize is to connect muslim, scientists, researchers in order to increase their collaboration, so do you think that the mustafa price is successful, has been successful in achieving and realizing this goal? my very short. and sharp answer, definitely yes, mustafa fris,

the name itself, muhammad al-mustafa, the chosen one, that name as well is the best ever name being establish, develop in the world, because it related to related, i'm not mean related to our prophet, peace be open. what does it mean? it mean that when i see read through previous recipient, the laureats, the different between mustapha prize among other prices, mustafa price take into consideration. i think one of those days they ask my opinion, i mentioned this written, mustafa price different from other prices, so this is no. because they call this for the muslim nobel muslim nobel because they incorporated the element of basic

sciences applied sciences and commercial like commercial ability of the technology or the product or whatever the laureate has developed invented and produced you don't need to wait until the next 10 years, five years or 20 years to commercialize this thing. but mustafa price given this recognition alhamdulillah masyaallah to the laureat, exactly, and some of the lord i've gone through, i have generated, produced ten of pattern, i commercialized the product, meaning that mankind, human being, not only in the muslim world, but worldwide benefited. from the mustafa prize laureats. that's in my humble opinion. i don't care whether you like

it or not. if you don't like it, that's your problem. i just want to say that this is the the different, the genuinely different between mustapha price, science technology and other prices that establish in the world. thank you so much mr. ismail from malaysia, thank you. the next guest joining us is professor murat

oyssal and i welcome you to the show. uh, professor, please introduce yourself to our viewers and tell us about your work. thank you so much, i a professor of electrical engineering at the new york university in abu dhabi. i am also affiliated with the uzi university in turkey where i am the founding director of the center of excellence in optical wireless communication technologies. my expertise is in the area of wireless communication. but we actually kind of challenge the traditional thinking in our research that associate wireless communication with the radio frequencies. in our research we actually explore how we can efficiently utilize the... optical bands including visible light in infrared uh so that we will be able to actually the boost the data rate capacity uh and so that we will be able to satisfy the demands of the next generation communication networks great and um professor tell us about the impact your your work can have on the uh you know

development of muslim countries actually what we are trying to do here uh we actually uh somehow try to think outside the box and to come up with the some solutions which will be actually positioned as a complementary or alternative solution to the conventional wireless systems operating at the radio frequencies, so just imagine that in the future you will be able to access the internet through the led light bulbs in your homes and offices, so it would be amazing, exactly, so you will not have actually any of the current problems with the wi-fi and you will be able to have very high capacity. the internet access and similarly in another uh research area we are exploring is the where we are using the laser transmitters so when we use laser this will be actually like fiber optic replacement so it can be used in the terrestrial links for the cell becalling or for the satellite communication inter satellite communication so actually the opportunities are kind of endless and these

will be of course not about how we transmit the data you know the communication is about like uh connecting to people right, so with our developments, hopefully we will be able to actually provide also uh opportunities to the unders communities, because in the developed countries, i mean they have already like very advanced fiber optic infrastructure, telecommunication infrastructure, however if you go to the on developing countries or the other parts of the work, it is not the same story, so hopefully our solutions will be also helpful for those people, well... that's a bright idea that i hope will soon bear fruit. thank you so much, professor murat oyssal, one of the other laureats of the fifth edition of the mustafa prize.

the next interview was joined us right now is a professor. okay, professor, please introduce yourself to our viewers and tell us a little bit about your area of expertise. my name is omi farad, um, i'm iranian, i was born in tehran, um, i reside in us, um, uh, i was a professor at. harvard medical school for a long time uh more recently uh i serve as uh founder and ceo of a company sear uh which originated from my academic lab um where i took some time off to operate the company the company is worked in companies based in san francisco my area of expertise uh and area of research has been focused on

um application of nanotechnologies for medical application uh developing range of nanopartical technologies for treatments of cancers, um, vaccines and more recently as research tools for the field of proteotics. perfect, and professor, nanotechnology, um, how do you see nanotechnology in iran? do you think that iranians um are let's say advanced in this technology or no? there is a long way, the distance between us and western countries, it's too much. um, remember nanotechnology is very broad, so i can only comment on areas of nanotechnology that applies to my own area of expertise, which is really application of nanotech for medical purposes, medical purposes, um, and in that regards i would say that iran is actually

quite advanced, in fact if you if you look at the uh the rankings and the reports um several years ago, which was the last time i looked at it, iran ranked seven in the world in the area of nanotech, today actually i i learned earlier that the ranking is now moved to the fourth in the world, which i think is a is a phenomenal success, um, you know, and and frankly as as someone of an iranian descent, i'm quite proud of that, especially given all the constraints that science in iran has um and has to work with in executing whatever scientific mission. so recognizing being fourth in the world in any discipline, i think is something to be quite proud of, and the fact that it's in my own area of science and expertise, it makes me quite proud as well, perfect, thank you. uh the next question is about the mustafa prize itself, um, what do you think about the mustafa prize because it's often referred to as the muslim nobel? okay, um, are these two,

the nobel prize and the mustafa prize, can we compare them? the way i see it is that mustapha price is among um uh the very very top scientific prizes, um, certainly by monetary valder prize. uh and it's given to muslims, but let's keep in mind that that is 1/4th of the world, so yes it kind of narrows down the funnel, but it doesn't narrow it by lot, it narrows it to a quarter of the world population. now the question is, is the prize recognized widely uh, not just by the muslim community, by but by the broader scientific community, something of that caliber. i hope that that. that um and i say that because i think the the the the the establishment of this prize frankly shows an enormous amount

of forsight um in celebrating science um and it's important to celebrate science among muslims because some of the most seminal contributions in in in literature in physics in mathematics in science originated from scientist of muslim descent, and i think perhaps productivity in that segment of the world hasn't been as deep and rich as it was earlier, and so reigniting that energy in the in that community i think is important, um, and just like we celebrate great athletes, um, we celebrate fantastic artists who are actors and actresses, i i think celebrating science and scientists energized as a scientific community, and so i think mustafa prize is taking a very important step in the right direction in recognizing the work of

the muslim scientists across the world. thank you, and the final question is about the impact the uh an event such as like mustapha prize can have, because as a person with iranian descent, i'm talking about the iranian youth. what impact could an event like the mustafa prize have the iranian youth or the muslim youth? it's a really good question, i'm going to answer it in two steps if you don't mind, no problem. the first part of it is that anytime uh you celebrate um uh an achievement uh, you inspire others to want to get to that point, so when you recognize a senior investigator, senior... in whatever discipline, i think it's a reasonable assumption that the younger scientist in that discipline will be energized by that. and so i think it's going to have a tremendously

positive impact on the young scientists, viewpoint of their own field of discipline. so that's the first part of it, but let me share with you, my own personal view of this, and and how do i want to contribute in addressing it? most of. is something that i'm enormously proud of, um, because it really recognizes the work that so many great people did in my lab, um, and frankly, i celebrate this prize with all of them, i think it's a recognize recognition of their work, what that prize symbolizes, that matters to me so much more than the actual monetary value of the prize, and so one of the decisions i made and and i shared that decision, um uh with the uh with the organizers and with the mustafa price foundation was i requested to in fact take the prize money that was was

intended to be awarded to me and to create an endowment with it um and the purpose of the endowment is to create young investigator uh mustafa prize that would be given in parallel to the mustafa prize to a senior scientist. so so my hope and expectation is that maybe as early as the next cycle, not only are we going to be celebrating uh other lauriers in other fields, but we're also going to be celebrating a superstar, young, brilliant mind that may very well go up to actually win the nobel prize, but we're going to recognize that person with young investigator, early career mustafa prize, and i'm so incredibly honored and proud. and frankly grateful that the mustafa foundation agreed with my wishes and are very excited about executing this, that's great news and thank you professor for

your time, brings us to the end of our exclusive coverage of the fifth edition the mustafa prize. i'm mattiasian and goodbye.

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