Alyahya Akkam

After KAUST Academy

Alyahya completed the KAUST Academy Summer AI program in 2024 at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, on a scholarship given to 15 students. Alyahya also earned the SDAIA LLM Practitioner certificate in January 2024. As of October 2026, Alyahya works at SABIC.

Summer projects

Artificial Intelligence Specialization · Cohort 2024

SunAgent

SunAgent is a project aimed at developing a specialized Reinforcement Learning (RL) agent to learn and master the Sun phase of the card game Baloot. The project involves designing and implementing the agent within a custom environment created using PettingZoo framework. To demonstrate the agent's learning and decision-making capabilities against other agents and players, we built a simple Sun game using pygame.

Read the final report (PDF)

See it in the program report (PDF)

Artificial Intelligence Specialization · Cohort 2023

Utilizing Deep Learning to Produce Audible Arabic Summaries

Lakhes is an AI-based summarization and text-to-speech project that is designed to automate the process of summarizing Arabic text and converting summaries into audible content. By leveraging natural language processing techniques and text-to-speech technology, with the added feature allowing the user to listen to the summary in their favorite voice, the project aims to enhance accessibility and convenience for content consumers in the Arab world.

See it in the program report (PDF)

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