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Khalid Aljurayyan,CDMP

After KAUST Academy

Khalid earned the Certified Data Management Professional Associate certification in January 2026 and left Wakeb in June 2026. Khalid then completed a Saudi Space Agency program on Earth observation analytics and started the PLEXOS Certification Program from KAUST and Energy Exemplar. Khalid now works in the government sector.

Summer projects

Artificial Intelligence Specialization · Cohort 2026

Optimization of Data Center Siting in Saudi Arabia for Future Energy Mix Planning

Efficient planning is necessary to ensure sustainable energy utilization with the rapid expansion of data centers and the increasing need for a reliable digital infrastructure. This project is intended to optimize the siting of data centers in Saudi Arabia by evaluating suitable locations and evaluating potential energy mix scenarios using the PLEXOS modeling platform. In the first phase of the project, a first PLEXOS model skeleton was developed and the data sets required were collected and organized, including electricity demand, power generation technologies, renewable energy resources and energy mix data. These early results lay the groundwork for future model implementation, scenario analysis and optimization. The project is expected to support informed decisions for the sustainable deployment of data centers aligned with Saudi Vision 2030.

Read the final report (PDF)

Artificial Intelligence Specialization · Cohort 2023

Qassid

Qassid can generate Saudi poetry by giving it input text to begin with, and then complete the poem based on the input. Also, Qassid is able to predict the era in which the poetry was written. To overcome this challenge, we trained an LSTM model on labeled speech samples, enabling it to adeptly capture speech dialect patterns and classify new samples into their respective categories. Throughout our experimentation process, we discovered that oversampling the underrepresented dialects in our dataset was the most effective approach.”

See it in the program report (PDF)

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