About SynAthena
SynAthena is a unified, AI-enhanced environmental intelligence platform that transforms complex environmental
stressors into actionable decision insights — for cleaner air, healthier communities, and sustainable growth.
Communities in Qatar and across the Gulf are exposed to multiple airborne and ambient stressors simultaneously:
industrial and traffic emissions, construction dust, intense natural dust storms, desert aerosols, noise pollution,
and electromagnetic fields from telecommunication infrastructure. These stressors interact cumulatively, elevating
health risks while complicating compliance, regulation, and urban planning.
Today's tools are fragmented, pollutant-specific, and rarely tailored to local conditions. There is no unified,
localized platform capable of predicting exposure risk in real time using advanced AI modeling.
SynAthena fills this critical gap.
By integrating emissions modeling, dust storm prediction, noise mapping, and radiation monitoring into a single
AI-powered analytics platform, SynAthena delivers real-time probabilistic exposure maps, anomaly-detection alerts,
and scenario-based incident analysis — empowering regulators, industries, and the public to act decisively.
Our Platform
The BASQAR Insightful Decision Support for Airborne Emissions integrates all major exposure domains
into one interoperable, AI-driven environment — a first for the Gulf region. You can check here an explicit example designed for QatarEnergy-LNG.
Multi-Stressor Integration
Simultaneous modeling of industrial emissions, urban pollution, dust storms, noise, and electromagnetic fields.
AI / LLM Intelligence
Machine learning anomaly detection and large-language-model-assisted regulatory interpretation and reporting.
3-Day Forecasts
Real-time probabilistic exposure maps and operational forecasting of ground-level concentrations across Qatar.
PEHI Index
Privacy-Enhanced Health Impact index — personalized exposure-to-health translation via smartphone app.
Digital Twin
Real-time process-level digital twin framework integrating satellite data, CEMS, and sensor networks.
Early Warning System
On-demand incident analysis and emergency response guidance for municipalities and civil defense teams.
Compliance Dashboard
Emissions optimization insights and compliance reporting for industrial operators — reducing risk and ESG exposure.
Smart-City Ready
Urban planning guidance, green building policy support, and noise/radiation mitigation for city authorities.
Who Benefits
- Government ministries and municipal authorities — real-time monitoring and data-driven regulation
- Industrial operators (energy, construction) — emissions optimization and digital compliance
- Smart-city integrators — environmental risk intelligence for urban design
- Healthcare and public health agencies — exposure-health translation at population scale
- Residents, athletes, outdoor workers — personalized air-health insights via smartphone
Built on the BASQAR scenario-projection platform developed at Texas A&M University at Qatar, validated
with QatarEnergy LNG and HBKU partners, and established as a spin-out company registered with the Qatar
Financial Centre (QFC).
Our Team
SynAthena was founded by three chemical engineering researchers with deep expertise in environmental modeling,
air quality science, and AI-driven exposure assessment — all rooted in Qatar's academic and industrial ecosystem.
Dr. Dhabia Al-Muhannadi
Chemical Engineering
Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU)
Dr. Konstantinos Kakosimos
Chemical Engineering
Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ)
Dr. Khadija Al-Nabhani
Chemical Engineering
Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ)
Together, the founding team brings validated expertise in CAMx/WRF atmospheric modeling, emissions inventory
construction, dust storm dynamics, health impact assessment, and AI integration — underpinned by years of
research with Qatar Foundation, QatarEnergy LNG, and the HBKU Office of Innovation.
Institutional Collaborators
- Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU)
- Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ)
- QatarEnergy LNG
- Qatar Financial Centre (QFC) — company registration
Contact
We'd love to hear from you — whether you're a regulator, industry partner, researcher, or simply curious about what SynAthena can do.
info@synathena.io
SynAthena — Registered with the Qatar Financial Centre (QFC)
Doha, Qatar
