Thamer Al-Gahtani

After KAUST Academy

Thamer graduated from Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University in June 2024, attended Draper University's Hero Training in summer 2024, and completed the Ironhack AI Engineering Program in December 2024. Thamer also built Flow Sudoku, a native Mac app designed to help users reach a focused state before work.

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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