American University of Sharjah hosted MedEngineers 2026, the UAE’s first healthcare innovation hackathon, bringing together over 500 students from eight universities to design solutions at the intersection of medicine, engineering, and design.
University of Wollongong in Dubai’s 2026 Computer Science Innovation Fair brought together 243 students across 42 teams building solutions using agentic AI, computer vision, and large language models.
Khalifa University now offers 20 PhD programmes spanning engineering, science, computing, and healthcare, among the largest STEM doctoral portfolios in the UAE, with dual-degree partnerships including KU Leuven, Tsinghua University, and Western University.
HCT’s Career Accelerators Track placed 450 graduates into jobs in the first half of the year, part of the institution’s broader push to fast-track graduate employability across the UAE.
Dubai Future Labs opened registration for the UAE’s fourth robotics competition, challenging university students to build autonomous robots for large-scale library operations, in partnership with RIT Dubai, Khalifa University, and AUS.
NYU Abu Dhabi launched MIDSAI, a two-year research-intensive Master’s program spanning healthcare informatics, Arabic NLP, and responsible AI, alongside welcoming its first PhD cohort in Astrophysics and Space Systems, a first for the region.
Middlesex University Dubai’s Computer Engineering and Informatics department held its annual showcase celebrating a year of student research, innovation, and real-world problem-solving.
UoS’s fourth “Made in CCI” exhibition featured over 60 graduation projects from Computing and Informatics students, including an AI-based supplier evaluation system for the surgical sector.
The University of Dubai’s Cyber-Security and Applied Resilience Center wrapped its second cybersecurity training cohort with an indoor Capture-the-Flag competition, run alongside industry partners including CyberGate Defense and RedTeam Hacker Academy.
Birmingham’s Institute of Advanced Studies launched five UAE-focused health research projects with Dubai Health and MBRU, spanning genomics, AI-driven disease risk modelling, and breast cancer research.
