After KAUST Academy
Ziyad joined Accenture Middle East as a Strategy Analyst in December 2025, after graduating in industrial engineering from King Saud University in June 2025. Earlier, Ziyad won first place in the SDAIA Datathon in October 2023 and completed a consulting internship at Roland Berger in 2024.
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.
With KAUST Academy
- Cohort 2023
Artificial Intelligence Specialization
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology · Artificial Intelligence Summer School
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