Harethah Abu Shairah

After KAUST Academy

Harethah is an MS/PhD student in Computer Science at KAUST. In September 2026, Harethah shared that a paper on Rank-One Safety Injection (ROSI) was accepted to the EMNLP 2026 Main Conference, and presented the ALARB Arabic legal reasoning benchmark at EMNLP 2025.

Summer project

Artificial Intelligence Specialization · Cohort 2023

Envisioning Arid Agriculture with a Desert Prediction Model

The project introduces an AI-driven approach for assessing agricultural viability in arid regions, in specific within Saudi Arabia, notorious for its challenging climatic conditions. The approach involved training a Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) model on Australian datasets, leveraging its incredibly diverse landscape and incorporating features such as precipitation, elevation, and geology. Subsequently, the trained model was applied to predict agricultural viability in Saudi Arabia. It unveiled previously unrecognized agricultural potential in Saudi Arabia, challenging conventional beliefs about arid climate limitations.

See it in the program report (PDF)

With KAUST Academy

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