Shaima Bashammakh

After KAUST Academy

Shaima graduated from King Abdulaziz University with a Bachelor's degree in computer science, with first honors, in February 2025. Shaima won the Swift Student Challenge 2025 and completed the nine-month Apple Developer Academy program in July 2025.

Summer projects

Artificial Intelligence Specialization · Cohort 2023

ProSide: Predictive Side Effects via Drug-Drug Interactions and Indications

Our project, ProSide, centered on "drug repurposing”. Drug repurposing refers to the innovative use of an existing drug, initially formulated for one medical condition, to treat a different ailment. We have engineered an AI-centric model using the Relational Graph Convolutional Neural Network to map the intricate relationships between drugs, the diseases they address, and the potential side effects.

See it in the program report (PDF)

Artificial Intelligence Specialization · Cohort 2023

PurePix: Every Pixel Has a Story

Our project PurePix is a solution to the problem of bias in cropping images in the X (Twitter) application.

See it in the program report (PDF)

With KAUST Academy

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