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As of October 2026, Abdallah is studying at Najran University, with graduation expected in 2027.

As of October 2026, Abdulaziz holds an honors degree in Information Systems from King Saud University, completed in August 2026. Abdulaziz also earned an IELTS Academic score of 7.5 in August 2026.

Abdulaziz is a chemical engineering student at Yanbu Industrial College and received a Certificate of Excellence for First Class Excellence in the second semester of the 2025/2026 academic year.

As of October 2026, Abdulaziz is an undergraduate student at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University.

As of October 2026, Abdulaziz is an undergraduate student at King Khalid University.

Abdulellah graduated from the Qimam Fellowship in July 2026 and finished a summer training as an AI Engineer at the Ministry of Justice in August 2026. As of October 2026, Abdulellah is studying at King Abdulaziz University.

Abdullah was accepted into the Digital Manufacturing track at Tuwaiq Club at King Saud University in September 2026.

As of October 2026, Abdullah holds a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from Qassim University, earned in July 2026 with first-class honors and a ranking of first in the major.

Abdullah graduated from King AbdulAziz University in July 2026 and works at Purein-sa. In September 2026, Abdullah completed the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner course through Saudi Digital Academy.

Abdullah joined Saudi Aramco as an AI intern in September 2026, alongside studies at Umm Al-Qura University. Abdullah also completed the Samsung Innovation Campus Saudi Arabia program in October 2026.

As of October 2026, Abdullah is studying at King AbdulAziz University, with graduation expected in 2027.

Abdullah and teammates won 3rd place representing Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University in the National Cybersecurity Authority CTF competition in September 2026. Abdullah is a cybersecurity student at the university, with graduation expected in 2027.

Abdullah took part in the five-day digital bootcamp of MiyahThon's third edition with the Saudi Water Authority in September 2026, working on detecting leaks in water transmission lines. In October 2026, Abdullah spoke to Umm Al-Qura University students about the KAUST Academy experience.

Abdullah completed the 320-hour KAUST Academy Cybersecurity Specialization Summer Program in August 2026 and joined the Mawhiba MetaMinds program, nominated by Taibah University. As of October 2026, Abdullah is a Computer Science student at Taibah University.

Abdulmalik reached the final stage of the UB DigitalThon 2026 hackathon at the University of Bisha with team Hirz, representing King Khalid University, from more than 300 teams. Abdulmalik also completed the Security Operations & Incident Response Bootcamp from the KKU Cybersecurity Club and is a cybersecurity student.

As of October 2026, Abdulmohsen is studying at King AbdulAziz University, with graduation expected in 2027.

Abdulqader graduated in computer science from Qassim University in 2026. The graduation project Wtheeq, which audits documents against Saudi cybersecurity frameworks, placed third in the College of Computer and first among the male students' projects.

Abdulrahman started an internship as an AI Engineer Intern at APTWatch in October 2026, while studying at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

As of October 2026, Abrar is a cybersecurity student at Umm Al-Qura University. Abrar completed the KAUST Academy Summer Research Internship in September 2026, which included co-developing a Wazuh-based insider threat simulation and detection system.

As of October 2026, Adel is a computer science student at King AbdulAziz University.

In September 2026, Ahmad graduated from a KAUST specialization program in energy transition, despite majoring in artificial intelligence at Umm Al-Qura University.

As of October 2026, Ahmed is studying at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, with graduation expected in 2027.

As of October 2026, Ahmed is a computer science student at King AbdulAziz University.

As of October 2026, Ajlan is studying software engineering at King Saud University.

As of October 2026, Ali is a chemical engineering graduate of Jubail Industrial College.

As of October 2026, Ali is an engineering student at King Saud University.

AlJasser graduated with a BSc in Information Systems from King Abdulaziz University in June 2026. AlJasser also completed the KAUST Academy AI Specialization Program in summer 2026, was a Top Participant in its Kaggle tournament, and gave lectures on how AI systems fail and on prompt injection.

Almaan is a computer science undergraduate at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals. In September 2026, Almaan's profile lists a NeurIPS paper on false presuppositions in medical vision-language models and a paper on dyslexia detection at KFUPM JURI.

Almoayyad is studying at King AbdulAziz University and announced a first research paper in October 2026.

Almokhtar started a second Master's degree in September 2026, this time in Bioscience at KAUST, focusing on cell and molecular biology within KAUST BioMed.

Alzahra earned a bachelor's degree in applied chemistry with second honors from Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University in May 2026. In 2026, Alzahra took part in the KAUST Academy and Energy Exemplar PLEXOS training and presented the grid simulation project Tawazun. As of October 2026, Alzahra works at ALS Arabia.

As of October 2026, Ammar is an undergraduate student at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

As of October 2026, Ammar is studying at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, with graduation expected in 2027.

As of October 2026, Anas is a chemical engineering student at King Saud University.

As of October 2026, Anas is studying at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, with graduation expected in 2029.

As of October 2026, Anas holds a degree in electrical and computer engineering from King AbdulAziz University, earned in January 2026.

As of October 2026, Atheer is a senior medical student at King AbdulAziz University.

As of October 2026, Azam is a cybersecurity and digital forensics student at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University.

As of October 2026, Azzam is studying at the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering, with graduation expected in 2027.

As of October 2026, Bandar is studying at King Saud University, with graduation expected in 2027. Bandar completed the DeepLearning.AI course on Linear Algebra for Machine Learning and Data Science in September 2026.

Bandar is a cybersecurity student at King Khalid University. In September 2026, Bandar earned the INE eCIR Certified Incident Responder certification and reached the final round of the UB DigitalThon hackathon. In October 2026, Bandar taught a seven-day security operations bootcamp to over 60 students.

As of October 2026, Basil is an undergraduate student at Umm Al-Qura University.

As of October 2026, Basil is a computer science student at King Khalid University.

As of October 2026, Bushra is an undergraduate student at the University of Prince Mugrin. Bushra marked the completion of the KAUST Academy Artificial Intelligence Specialization on 10 October 2026.

As of October 2026, Bushra is an undergraduate student at Taibah University. Bushra completed summer training at CERN on the CMS experiment through the KAUST Academy Specialization Program and presented the results at the closing event in September 2026.

Dalia graduated from King Saud University in 2026 with a Pharm.D and first honors. Dalia then took part in the KAUST Academy Bioinformatics Specialization summer program with the University of Cambridge.

Deem graduated in computer science from Qassim University in 2026 with First Honors. At KAUST Academy, Deem explored whether AI can understand lighting from a single image, a question that began in the graduation project.

Dhiyaa completed the KAUST Academy AI Specialization in September 2026 and received the program certificate at the closing ceremony at KAUST. Dhiyaa's summer internship at CERN focused on reproducible machine learning pipelines for the CMS experiment.

As of October 2026, Dimah is an undergraduate student at King Saud University. Dimah completed the KAUST Academy AI Specialization in September 2026 after an AI internship at CERN with the CMS experiment, and presented a poster on sheaf neural networks for particle detectors.

As of October 2026, Duaa is an undergraduate computer science student at King AbdulAziz University.

As of October 2026, Durar is an undergraduate student at King Khalid University. Durar completed the KAUST Academy AI Specialization in September 2026 and placed 4th in the program's image inpainting competition.

Eshraq completed the KAUST Academy Bioinformatics Specialization in September 2026. The final stage was a summer research internship at the Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto.

As of October 2026, Essam is an undergraduate student of cybersecurity at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University.

As of October 2026, Eyad is an undergraduate student at King Saud University. Eyad graduated from the KAUST Academy AI Program in September 2026 with a research project on regularizing autoencoders for engineering data, and was accepted into the AI Track at Tuwaiq Club at KSU.

As of October 2026, Eyad is an undergraduate student at the University of Jeddah. Eyad graduated from the first Water Sustainability cohort of KAUST Academy in September 2026, after a two-month research internship at KAUST comparing drone images with satellite images.

As of October 2026, Fadhlallah is a senior-year computer science student. Fadhlallah completed a nine-week research internship at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Italy, arranged by KAUST Academy, on speeding up large matrix computations.

Fadia completed the KAUST Academy Bioinformatics Summer Programme in 2026, presented a poster at Poster Day, and in October 2026 was accepted into King Abdulaziz University's student responsibilities program, in a data management and dashboard team. Fadia is a final-year Information Systems student.

As of October 2026, Faisal is an undergraduate student at King Saud University. Faisal completed the KAUST AI Specialization in September 2026, including a two-month placement at CERN where Faisal developed a retrieval-augmented generation system for AI smart search.

As of October 2026, Faizan is an undergraduate at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals and is in the Jeel Younafis Undergraduate Development Program run by Tajseer with IBM and Misk Foundation. Faizan earned First Honors in the 2025-26 academic year.

Farah graduated from the University of Hail in June 2026 with a BSc in Artificial Intelligence and first honors. Farah finished the KAUST Academy AI Summer Program in September 2026 and completed the Global Project Management Forum Capability Series that month.

As of October 2026, Fardows is a senior software engineering student at the University of Prince Mugrin. Fardows completed the KAUST Academy AI Specialization in September 2026, a program that lasted almost a year.

Fares works at the Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Commission. Fares completed the International Atomic Energy Agency's postgraduate course in radiation protection in January 2025 and presented a research paper at the December 2025 international conference on nuclear and radiological emergency preparedness and response.

Faris graduated in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Jeddah in June 2026 with first-class honors and joined Tajseer's Jeel Younafis undergraduate development program with IBM and Misk Foundation. Faris completed the KAUST Academy summer stage at the University of Oxford in September 2026.

Faris completed the KAUST Academy AI Specialization in September 2026 and presented a project at the poster session. Faris was recognized as a top participant in the Kaggle Competitions Tournament during the summer school.

Fatima started a Master's in Bioinformatics at the University of Michigan Medical School in August 2026, in the Data Science and Machine Learning track. Earlier, Fatima presented the QLife graduation project in December 2025 and worked as a Teaching Assistant for KAUST Academy's Introduction to Bioinformatics.

Feras graduated in cybersecurity from the University of Jeddah with First Class Honors. Feras completed the KAUST Academy Cybersecurity Specialization in September 2026, one of the final 50 participants selected, and earned the INE Certified Threat Hunting Professional certification in August 2026.

As of October 2026, Ghada is a senior cybersecurity student at King Khalid University. Ghada completed the KAUST Academy Cybersecurity Specialization summer stage at King Khalid University and earned the eJPT penetration testing certification with a 95% score in August 2026.

As of October 2026, Ghady is an undergraduate student at King Abdulaziz University. Ghady took part in the KAUST Academy AI Specialization Program, a journey of about two years.

Ghaida joined the KAUST Elevate Program in the Cybersecurity track in October 2026. Ghaida graduated from the KAUST Academy Cybersecurity Specialization in September 2026, one of 297 students to reach the summer residency, and developed an insider threat simulation and detection capstone.

Ghaida graduated from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals with a BSc in Chemical Engineering in 2026. Ghaida's senior design project, on an API Class G cement slurry to prevent gas migration, was presented at the KFUPM Design Expo 2026.

Hadeel works at Saudi Energy. Hadeel earned the Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) in January 2026 and completed the KAUST Academy and Energy Exemplar Program in September 2026, with the PLEXOS Fundamentals certification.

Haitham completed the KAUST Academy Bioinformatics Specialization in September 2026, including a summer program at the University of Cambridge. As of October 2026, Haitham has a role at Health Co.

As of October 2026, Hala is an undergraduate student at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University. Hala completed the KAUST Academy summer stage at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Italy, working on recurrent neural networks and biological decision-making.

Halah defended a Master's thesis in June 2026 on nitrogen and carbon isotopes in gastropods and algae as tracers of human activity in Jeddah coastal water. Halah then completed a two-month research internship in Dr. Susana Carvalho's laboratory at KAUST through the Water Sustainability program.

Hasan is a third-year computer science student at King Khalid University. In summer 2026, Hasan did a VLSI internship at NIELIT Haridwar, taught Python and machine learning to high school students for KAUST Academy, and joined the Energy Exemplar Summer Program at KAUST. In October 2026, Hasan's team won second place at the FARQ Hackathon.

As of October 2026, Hassan is an undergraduate student at King Faisal University. Hassan completed eight weeks of training in the KAUST Academy AI Summer Program at King Khalid University in August 2026.

As of October 2026, Hassan is an undergraduate student at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

As of October 2026, Hassan is an undergraduate student at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University. Hassan completed the KAUST Academy Cybersecurity Specialization in September 2026 and won 2nd place with the team SABBAQ at the AgentX AI hackathon in October 2026.

As of October 2026, Hatem is a chemical engineering student at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals. Hatem completed the KAUST Academy Energy Transition Program in September 2026, after a summer internship placement at University College London.

As of October 2026, Hatim is an undergraduate student at Qassim University. Hatim completed the KAUST Academy Cybersecurity Program at King Khalid University and the University of Glasgow in August 2026, and earned four Cribl certifications in September 2026.

As of October 2026, Hussain is studying at Columbia University in New York, in a program running from August 2026 to May 2027. Hussain spent summer 2026 in the Laboratory for Metabolic Systems Engineering at the University of Toronto through the KAUST Academy Bioinformatics program.

As of October 2026, Hussam is an undergraduate student at King Saud University. Hussam completed the KAUST Academy Cybersecurity Specialization in September 2026, where Hussam was infrastructure engineer on BASEERA, a threat intelligence aggregator fed by distributed honeypots.

Jarah joined KAUST's Elevate Program in the research translation and partnerships department in September 2026, after graduating in Energy Engineering from Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University. Jarah's paper on a grid-tied photovoltaic system for schools in Saudi Arabia was published in September 2026.

As of October 2026, Jory is an undergraduate student at Fahad Bin Sultan University and has a role at Mawhiba MetaMinds. Jory completed the KAUST Academy AI Specialization in September 2026, presenting two projects at the closing ceremony.

As of October 2026, Joud is an undergraduate student at Qassim University. Joud completed the KAUST Academy AI Specialization in September 2026, including a summer internship at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics on monitoring river levels with non-contact sensing.

Khadijah earned a Saudi Council of Engineers certificate in catalysis and the energy transition in October 2025. As of October 2026, Khadijah is studying at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University.

Khadijah received an Excellence Award from Saudi Ground Services in August 2026 and earned the Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst Associate certification in July 2026. Khadijah also took part in the KAUST Academy AI Specialization in 2025 and completed the AWS AI & ML Scholars challenge.

Khalid graduated from Umm Al-Qura University in June 2026 with a bachelor's degree in Artificial Intelligence, first-class honors and a 3.88 out of 4 GPA. Khalid then completed the KAUST Academy AI Specialization summer program at King Khalid University in Abha.

Khalid completed the KAUST Academy AI Specialization in September 2026 and presented Onkith, a privacy-preserving voice assistant, at the closing ceremony.

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.

Khalid graduated from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in May 2026 with honors in computer engineering, and received Saudi Council of Engineers accreditation in September 2026. In September 2026, Khalid joined SITE through its Accelerated Development Program in the Business Solutions Division.

Lama graduated from the University of Hail in June 2026 with a bachelor's degree in Artificial Intelligence and first-class honors. The graduation project was on early detection of diabetic retinopathy with AI. Lama also completed an Aramco internship in January 2026 and the KAUST Academy AI Specialization.

As of October 2026, Lama is a Computer Science graduate of Taibah University, class of 2025, and has completed the 320-hour KAUST Academy AI Specialization summer program at King Khalid University.

As of October 2026, Lama is a King Saud University physics graduate who has completed the KAUST Academy Energy Transition Specialization, including 320 training hours in a KAUST research group.

Layan is an undergraduate at King AbdulAziz University. In October 2026, Layan became a technical member of the university's Electrical and Computer Engineering Club, and shared that the DRAGSAT team became the first Saudi team to reach the CanSat 2026 finals.

As of October 2026, Layan is studying at King Khalid University.

As of October 2026, Layan is studying computer science at Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University, and completed the KAUST Academy AI Specialization in September 2026 with a poster session and closing ceremony at KAUST.

Leena completed a two-month undergraduate research internship at the University of New South Wales in Sydney through KAUST Academy, ending in September 2026. The project studied light-driven MOF materials for recovering gold from water. Leena holds a chemistry degree from Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University.

Lena completed the KAUST Academy Bioinformatics Specialization in September 2026, spending six of eight weeks at the Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge. Lena also received pharmacist professional registration from the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties in July 2026.

As of October 2026, Lojain is a graduate of the College of Science at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University.

Lujain is studying electrical and computer engineering at King AbdulAziz University and completed the KAUST Academy Energy Transition Specialization in September 2026. Lujain also has a July 2026 project on data-driven analysis of hard carbon for sodium-ion batteries.

Lujain graduated from the University of Jeddah in 2026 with a bachelor's degree in computer science and first-class honors. The graduation project, Fake Reveal, a deepfake video detection system, won first place for best scientific poster in the computer science program. Lujain then completed the KAUST Academy AI summer program.

As of October 2026, Maan is an undergraduate cybersecurity student at King Khalid University. In September 2026 Maan passed the INE Certified Incident Responder exam, and in October completed the Security Operations and Incident Response Bootcamp run by the Cybersecurity Club KKU.

Mada completed the KAUST Academy Bioinformatics Specialization in September 2026, including an internship at KAUST and the University of Cambridge. Earlier in 2026, Mada won first place in a pharmacoeconomics project competition at the King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences College of Pharmacy.

Mahdi joined Ma'aden through its Future Leaders Program in October 2026. Mahdi graduated from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in July 2026 with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, specializing in energy efficiency and renewable energy, and completed the Energy Transition summer program at King's College London.

Mahdi is a final-year undergraduate at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University. In October 2026, Mahdi's team ranked among the top 29 of 170+ teams at the AgentX AI Hackathon. Mahdi was also accepted into the Fateel program's technology track in September 2026.

As of October 2026, Majed is studying at King AbdulAziz University and is a member of the Data Science Club's tech team.

Malik is studying computer science at the University of Minnesota through the KAUST Gifted Student Program. In summer 2026, Malik completed 240 hours of AI and computer vision coursework at the University of Oxford with KAUST Academy and worked on a project for KAUST PDEC.

In September 2026, Manahel was officially awarded a Master's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence Track, from King Khalid University.

Marwan graduated from the KAUST Academy AI Specialization in September 2026 and finished among the top participants in the program's Kaggle competition tournament.

As of October 2026, Mayassa is studying at King AbdulAziz University.

As of October 2026, Meshal is studying at King AbdulAziz University. Meshal completed the KAUST Academy Energy Transition Specialization in September 2026, after being selected from more than 2,500 applicants.

Meshal is an FCC Control Panel Trainee at SAMREF Saudi Aramco Mobil Refinery Company. In summer 2026, Meshal worked as a research engineer intern at the CAREY Lab at KAUST on photocatalytic hydrogen peroxide production using noble-metal-loaded titanium dioxide.

Moawiah is a mechanical engineering student at the Islamic University of Madinah. In summer 2026, Moawiah was one of 15 participants chosen from 1,098 applicants for the final stage of the KAUST Academy Water Sustainability Specialization, working on a project about collecting water from fog.

Mohamad is a software engineering student at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals. In September 2026, Mohamad completed the KAUST Academy Cybersecurity Specialization, and a July 2026 project is Raqib, an AI-assisted IoT security compliance and risk-assessment platform.

Mohammad is studying at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals and completed the KAUST Academy AI summer school in August 2026.

Mohammad completed the 10-month KAUST Academy Cybersecurity Specialization, run with the National Cybersecurity Authority and SITE, in September 2026. The final stage was a summer school at King Khalid University and the University of Glasgow.

As of October 2026, Mohammad is studying at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Mohammed is a computer science student at Umm Al-Qura University. Mohammed began a co-op internship at First City in January 2026 and completed the KAUST Academy AI Specialization Program in September 2026.

Mohammed is an Information Systems graduate of King Saud University and completed the KAUST Academy AI summer program at the University of Oxford in 2026. Mohammed was also one of 20 Saudi students chosen for the Mawhiba and Huawei AI program in China.

Mohanned completed a two-month summer research internship at the University of New South Wales in Sydney in 2026, as the final stage of the KAUST Academy Energy Transition Program. The project compared two virtual oscillator control methods for grid-forming inverters.

Mohsen graduated from Taibah University in June 2026 with a computer science degree, first-class honors and a 4.86 out of 5 GPA. Mohsen completed the advanced stage of the KAUST Academy Cybersecurity Specialization at KAUST in March 2026.

Mona is studying at King Saud University and heads the 3D Design Committee at 3DCKSU. In September 2026, Mona completed the KAUST Academy Specializations Program, after being accepted into the Bioinformatics summer stage.

Mozoon spent two months at CERN in summer 2026 as part of the KAUST Academy AI program, working on unsupervised clustering for irregular detector regions within the CMS Collaboration. Mozoon presented the project at the KAUST Academy closing ceremony poster day in September 2026.

Muath joined Saudi Aramco in September 2026 through its Professional Development Program, in the Consulting Services Department. Muath studied at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals until May 2026.

Muath is a computer science student at the Faculty of Computing and Information Technology. Muath graduated from the KAUST Academy AI Specialization Program in September 2026 and completed a research project under a KAUST Academy mentor.

Muath is studying computer engineering at King Khalid University and completed the KAUST Academy AI Specialization Program in September 2026. In October 2026, Muath's team Lantern won second place among 169 teams at the Farq Hackathon.

Muhammad is a final-year computer science student at King Abdulaziz University. In 2026, Muhammad completed the 320-hour KAUST Academy Cybersecurity Specialization, which ended with the cybersecurity summer school at the University of Glasgow in August 2026.

Muhand is studying at King AbdulAziz University. In summer 2026, Muhand worked as a summer student co-op at CERN on the CMS experiment, porting part of a reconstruction chain to run on both CPU and GPU, and presented the work at the KAUST Academy closing ceremony in September 2026.

Muhannad graduated from Qassim University in July 2026 with a bachelor's degree in computer science. In the KAUST Academy AI summer program, Muhannad was a Top Participant in the Kaggle competitions tournament and presented a deepfake and AI-generated image detector in September 2026.

Murtadha works at Leen Training Center and graduated from Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University in 2026 with a computer science degree. Murtadha completed the 320-hour KAUST Academy Cybersecurity Summer Program in September 2026.

Muruj volunteered as an exam proctor for the KAUST Academy Specializations Placement Exam in January 2026. Muruj also earned the IELTS Academic result in late 2025 and completed a HACCP and ISO 22000 food safety course.

Musab joined KAUST in September 2026 as an Elevate Trainee in the AI & Digital Solutions track. Earlier in 2026, Musab won VisionThon, and in July 2026 began leading a team on the spoken dialect identification task of NADI 2026.

Mzon was a teaching assistant in the KAUST Academy Energy Transition Program at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in early 2026. In July 2026, Mzon joined the KAUST Academy and Energy Exemplar program on PLEXOS energy market modeling and earned the PLEXOS Fundamentals certification in September 2026.

Mzoun's review paper on perovskite solar cells coupled with graphene supercapacitors was published in the journal Results in Engineering in September 2025.

Naif and a team representing the Tuwaiq Club at King Faisal University won first place at Cyberthon 2026 in October 2026 with ADControls, a tool that finds Active Directory misconfigurations. Earlier in 2026, Naif earned the Certified Red Team Professional (CRTP) certification.

As of October 2026, Naif holds a bachelor's degree in artificial intelligence from Umm Al-Qura University.

As of October 2026, Nasser is a student at the University of Jeddah, expected to finish in 2027. Nasser completed the 320-hour KAUST Academy Cybersecurity Specialization, which included the final stage at the University of Glasgow.

Nasser attended a program at Tsinghua University in Beijing in September 2026, with lectures, technology company visits and an AI exhibition. Nasser's team had won the Best Poster Award in August 2026 for research on AI safety in diffusion language models.

As of October 2026, Nawaf is studying software engineering at King Saud University. Nawaf worked as an AI research intern at the HIVE Lab at the University of Toronto, where the team won the Best Poster Award, and presented the work at the KAUST Academy closing ceremony.

Nawaf is a Computer Science student at King Saud University. In summer 2026, Nawaf worked as an AI researcher at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Italy and published a paper in MDPI on detecting vacant land in Riyadh from satellite data.

As of October 2026, Nawaf is a Computer Science graduate of Taibah University.

As of October 2026, Nawaf is studying at Yanbu Industrial College and serves as president of its AI club. Nawaf completed all stages of the KAUST Academy AI program and presented dark matter research done as a research assistant at the University of Toronto.

Nawaf and a team representing Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University won first place in the National Cybersecurity Authority's university cybersecurity competition in October 2026. Nawaf also completed a five-day CyberOps camp run by the Tarmiz initiative.

Nawaf published a first research paper in October 2026, titled "Your Benchmark Is Not Saturated", which introduces a method called Answer Pooling for making existing AI benchmarks harder. As of October 2026, Nawaf is a student at Umm Al-Qura University.

As of October 2026, Nawaf is studying computer science at King Saud University. Nawaf completed the eight-week KAUST Academy AI summer program and attended the graduation ceremony at KAUST in September 2026.

Nisrin was admitted to the University of Edinburgh in September 2026 to study Sustainable Energy Systems, supported by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Scholarship Program. In 2026, Nisrin also trained as a Teaching Assistant and joined the PLEXOS Trading summer program with Energy Exemplar and KAUST Academy.

Norah works at Green Element SA. In 2026, Norah did research with the Net Zero Centre at King's College London on optimizing hydrogen storage and carbon capture using computational methods.

As of October 2026, Nouf holds an M.Sc. in Chemistry.

Omar graduated from Qassim University in June 2026 with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, electronics and communications track. In September 2026, Omar presented a distributed edge AI system for monitoring Arabian leopards at the KAUST Academy closing ceremony.

As of October 2026, Omar is an Artificial Intelligence graduate of the University of Jeddah. Omar placed 4th out of 56 competitors in the final Kaggle tournament of the KAUST Academy AI program.

As of October 2026, Omar is a Computer Science student at King Saud University.

As of October 2026, Osama is studying at the University of Hail and has a role at Saudi Aramco.

Osama started a co-op trainee position at Cipher at the end of August 2026. Osama is also working on a graduation project that uses machine learning to detect intrusions in UAV networks.

Osama graduated with a bachelor's degree in computer science from King Abdulaziz University, ranking first in the class at the College of Computing and Information Technology in Rabigh. Osama also earned the CompTIA Security+ certification and completed the KAUST Academy cybersecurity stage as a co-op.

As of October 2026, Osama is studying computer science at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Qasim started as a part-time AI Researcher at Nexta in September 2026, after a co-op there and the KAUST Academy x Energy Exemplar internship program in summer 2026. In October 2026, Qasim's team placed fifth in the Farq hackathon at Al Yamamah University with Waypoint, a student companion tool.

As of October 2026, Raed is studying electrical and computer engineering at King Abdulaziz University. Raed presented NNAware, a framework for mapping neural networks onto IoT devices built during a research internship in Italy, at the KAUST Academy closing ceremony.

As of October 2026, Raed is studying at the University of Prince Mugrin. In September 2026, Raed's team presented research on using a frozen LLM as a training-free retriever for very long documents at the KAUST Academy closing ceremony.

As of October 2026, Raghad is a student at King Khalid University. In September 2026, Raghad presented the project Reliability-Weighted PPO at the KAUST Academy Poster Day. Raghad also earned DataCamp certificates in Data Analyst (August 2026) and Machine Learning Fundamentals (September 2026).

As of October 2026, Rana is an industrial chemistry graduate of Umm Al-Qura University.

Raneem was accepted in September 2026 into the Artificial Intelligence Minor at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, alongside a bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics. Raneem also earned the eJPTv2 certification and presented a digital forensics project in October 2026.

As of October 2026, Rasheed is studying at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals. Rasheed's KAUST Academy project split an object-detection model across Raspberry Pi devices to monitor Arabian leopards without cloud computing.

As of October 2026, Rayan is studying at King Abdulaziz University. In summer 2026, Rayan spent two months in KAUST laboratories in the Energy Transition Specialization, run with the King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy.

As of October 2026, Ra'ad is studying at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals. In summer 2026, Ra'ad did research at the KAUST Catalysis Center on hydrogen production from formic acid.

As of October 2026, Ra'af is studying at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals. In summer 2026, Ra'af spent two months doing research on electrocatalysts at a KAUST catalysis center and presented the project at the closing ceremony.

Reef is a senior cybersecurity student at King Khalid University. In September 2026, Reef was named to lead the attack track of the university's Cybersecurity Club, and in October 2026 taught a seven-day Security Operations and Incident Response camp.

As of October 2026, Reem is studying at King Khalid University. In summer 2026, Reem worked as a research assistant at the University of Toronto on astronomical foundation models.

As of October 2026, Reena is studying at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University. In summer 2026, Reena worked as an AI research intern in Italy on a communication framework for IoT devices and presented the project at the KAUST Academy closing ceremony.

As of October 2026, Rehan is studying computer engineering at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals. Rehan won the final Kaggle competition of the KAUST Academy AI program, placing first out of 57 teams.

As of October 2026, Retaj is a cybersecurity student at King Khalid University, specializing in digital forensics. Retaj presented the MIRSAD edge-based malware detection project at the KAUST Academy closing ceremony in September 2026.

Riyadh published a first research paper in October 2026 on how an AI model can decide it has read enough of a long document. Riyadh is also a student at King Abdulaziz University.

Saad builds autonomy software for delivery robots, including a fleet management platform with a live 3D LiDAR operations map and self-hosted robot teleoperation infrastructure.

As of October 2026, Saad is an undergraduate student at the Islamic University of Madinah.

Sadeem joined the KAUST Elevate Program in September 2026 and is part of the Analytical Chemistry Core Lab at KAUST.

Saleh earned the eWPTX and eCPPT penetration testing certifications from INE Security in September 2026, and qualified for the Black Hat MEA 2026 CTF finals.

As of October 2026, Saleh is a computer engineering student at King Saud University.

Samaher joined the Data Science Program run by Saudi Digital Academy and WeCloudData. Samaher was named Champion of the Week in September 2026 and shared the final project, MADAD, an AI-driven system for hospital inventory and supply sharing, in October.

Sami started as a Solutions Architect Intern at Amazon Web Services in September 2026.

As of October 2026, Sana is an undergraduate student at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

As of October 2026, Sara works at Academy of learning Co.

As of October 2026, Sarah is a Master's student in Organic Chemistry at King Abdulaziz University.

As of October 2026, Saud is an undergraduate student at Umm Al-Qura University. Saud completed the KAUST Academy cybersecurity program, run with the National Cybersecurity Authority and SITE, in September 2026, with a project on AI-driven APK threat analysis and reporting.

As of October 2026, Saud is an undergraduate student at Umm Al-Qura University.

Shahad started a new position as a Teaching Assistant at KAUST Academy in January 2026.

As of October 2026, Sohaib is an undergraduate student at the University of Minnesota and part of the KAUST Gifted Student Program.

As of October 2026, Sulaiman is a computer science student at King Abdulaziz University and Vice Manager of the 17th Engineering Day there.

As of October 2026, Sultan holds a bachelor's degree in artificial intelligence from Umm Al-Qura University and works as an AI and machine learning engineer focused on computer vision and Arabic natural language processing.

As of October 2026, Syed Umer is a medical student and early-career researcher at Batterjee Medical College.

As of October 2026, Taha is an undergraduate student at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals. Taha received a Calculus Award from the Mathematics Department in September 2026.

Talal is a computer science student at King Abdulaziz University. In September 2026, Talal qualified for the Black Hat MEA 2026 CTF finals, and in October was appointed deputy head of the cybersecurity section of Tuwaiq Club at the university.

As of October 2026, Thamer is an undergraduate student at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University.

Turki is an AI engineer and researcher working on deep learning and finance, and launched version 2 of a bilingual portfolio website in October 2026.

As of October 2026, Turki is a graduate student at KAUST, after earning a computer science degree with first-class honors from Qassim University in 2026.

Turky is an undergraduate student at King Saud University with a role at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center. In September 2026, a paper co-authored by Turky on blood cell ratios, HIV viral load and anemia was published in Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology.

As of October 2026, Waseem is an undergraduate cybersecurity student at King Khalid University. In September 2026, Waseem's team Hirz represented the university at UB DigitalThon 2026 in the cybersecurity and risk management track and reached the final round of 16 teams out of more than 300.

Yahya joined MawHub as an AI Engineer Intern in September 2026 while studying at Umm Al-Qura University. Yahya also represented Saudi Arabia in Software Testing at WorldSkills Shanghai 2026.

As of October 2026, Yasser is a computer science student at King Abdulaziz University.

As of October 2026, Yasser is an undergraduate student at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, on an exchange at Georgia Tech that started in late August 2026.

As of October 2026, Yazan is an electrical engineering student at King Faisal University.

In October 2026, Yousef shared finishing first among male students and third overall in the College of Computer at Qassim University. Yousef's graduation project, Watheeq, used retrieval-augmented generation to analyze facility documents.

Zahraa started a master's degree at KAUST in August 2025 and is still studying there as of October 2026. Zahraa won first place in the KAUST Academy Energy Transition Program and was a teaching assistant for the KAUST Academy Water and Sustainability Program in January 2026.

Zainab invited students to KAUST Connect, an October 2025 event at KFUPM organized with KAUST Academy.

In October 2026, Zeyad earned the NVIDIA-Certified Associate: Generative AI LLMs certification.

As of October 2026, Abdullah is studying at King Khalid University, with graduation expected in 2027.

As of October 2026, Abdalla is studying at the Islamic University of Madinah, in a degree program that runs to 2029.

Abdellatif worked as a teaching assistant with KAUST Academy in January 2026, teaching lab materials in the second stage of the AI Specialization Program. As of October 2026, Abdellatif is studying at King Abdulaziz University.

Abderrahmene attended the MenaML 2026 winter school in February 2026, then served as an AI instructor for high school and middle school students in a program organized by KAUST in summer 2026.

Abdulaziz started as an AI Business Analyst at HAMS.AI in February 2026, after graduating in computer engineering from King Saud University in 2025.

Abdulaziz earned the eJPT (eLearnSecurity Junior Penetration Tester) certification from INE Security in October 2025.

As of October 2026, Abdulaziz is studying at King Abdulaziz University.

Abdulaziz became a Data Scientist at MOZN, announced in August 2026, after finishing studies at King Saud University in September 2025.

Abdulaziz was accepted into the Qimam Fellowship Saudi in April 2026 and graduated from it in July 2026. As of October 2026, Abdulaziz is studying at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals and has a role at penny.

Abdulaziz solved 6 of the 9 Flare-On 12 challenges in October 2025 and earned the Practical Malware Research Professional certification in December 2025. As of October 2026, Abdulaziz has a role at Help AG alongside studies at King Abdulaziz University.

Abdulaziz joined the Cybersecurity Group at Aramco Ventures in October 2026. Abdulaziz passed the Certified Red Team Professional exam in July 2026 and was part of a team that won first place in the Offensive Security track of a Cyber Battle in August 2026.

As of October 2026, Abdulaziz is studying at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Abdulelah placed in the top 5 at the Google DeepMind Frontiers GenAI Hackathon in March 2026. As of October 2026, Abdulelah is studying at Boston University.

Abdulelah graduated in Information Systems from King Abdulaziz University in 2025 and works at Nagarro. Abdulelah was a teaching assistant for KAUST Academy's Advanced AI program, won the Sanah Hackathon, and completed the SDAIA and University of Oxford AI Application Engineering Bootcamp.

Abdulellah graduated from the Qimam Fellowship in July 2026 and finished a summer training as an AI Engineer at the Ministry of Justice in August 2026. As of October 2026, Abdulellah is studying at King Abdulaziz University.

As of October 2026, Abdulkareem is studying at the Islamic University of Madinah.

Abdullah graduated from King Saud University in September 2026 with first-class honors in information systems. In October 2026, Abdullah's team Rifd won third place in the Expo 2030 Riyadh Challenge. Abdullah works at NAVAIA.

Abdullah served as a teaching assistant for KAUST Academy's Intro to AI program, hosted at Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, in January 2026. As of October 2026, Abdullah is studying computer engineering at King Saud University.

Abdullah graduated with a degree in Computer Science from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science in 2026. As of October 2026, Abdullah works at Maestro Pizza by Daily Food Co.

Abdullah's team won second place among more than 12,000 participants in the Defensethon challenge in May 2026 with NavPod, a module that keeps drones on mission during jamming and GPS loss. Abdullah completed a bachelor's degree in computer engineering at King Saud University in August 2026.

Abdullah started as a Data Scientist at Entropy in October 2025, after joining the SDAIA and University of Oxford AI Bootcamp as one of 30 selected students. In February 2026, Abdullah was selected for the Google MenaML 2026 Winter School at KAUST.

Abdullah worked as a data analyst intern at Al Borg Diagnostics until August 2026 and taught a 3-day workshop on dashboard design for non-Excel users. Abdullah completed the DataCamp Data Analyst in Power BI career track in November 2025. As of October 2026, Abdullah works at PwC Middle East.

Abdullah completed the 320-hour KAUST Academy Cybersecurity Specialization Summer Program in August 2026 and joined the Mawhiba MetaMinds program, nominated by Taibah University. As of October 2026, Abdullah is a Computer Science student at Taibah University.

Abdulmohseen completed a UI/UX Design Bootcamp at Tuwaiq Academy in November 2025. In June 2026, Abdulmohseen started as a Software Engineer at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, within the Accelerated Growth Program at the College of Computing and Mathematics.

Abdulmohsen joined T2 as an AI Engineer in July 2026 and presented the Eternity product at LEAP in September 2026. In April 2026, Abdulmohsen published a paper on detecting Arabic governmental deepfake text in the Journal of Undergraduate Research International.

Abdulrahman earned the INE Digital Forensics Professional and Certified Threat Hunting Professional certificates in early 2026 and presented a secure file sharing project with data loss prevention in April 2026. In September 2026, Abdulrahman started at Accenture Middle East as a Managed Security Services New Associate.

Abdulrahman completed the KAUST Academy Cybersecurity Specialization in summer 2025 and graduated in software engineering from King Saud University in May 2026 with first honors. In June 2026, Abdulrahman joined QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey, as a Software Engineering Intern at McKinsey & Company. Abdulrahman also earned the CAPM certification in January 2026.

Abdulrahman graduated with a BSc in Software Engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in June 2025, where the senior project Roshd won third place at the Computing Projects EXPO. Abdulrahman then completed the KAUST Academy Cybersecurity Summer Program and, in December 2025, started as a Third-Party Security Officer at Saudi Awwal Bank.

Abdulrahman graduated with a bachelor's degree in artificial intelligence from Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University in April 2026, with honors. The graduation project was Imtithal, an agentic AI compliance platform. In October 2026, Abdulrahman started as an AI Engineer at Solidrange.

Abdulrahman joined intelmatix as a Machine Learning Scientist in October 2026, after a summer internship there on AI data agents. Abdulrahman also completed the Saudi Speakers Fellowship in June 2026 and served as President of the Programming Club at King AbdulAziz University, where Abdulrahman studies.

Abdulrahman completed a business development and market research internship at Custodia, a KAUST venture on animal tracking, in summer 2025. By July 2026, Abdulrahman was working on Wathiq AI, a legal workspace tool for lawyers in Saudi Arabia.

As of October 2026, Abdulwahab is studying at Texas A&M University, with the listed study period running from 2023 to 2029.

In September 2025, Abrar shared SAFAA, a voice assistant for Hajj and Umrah pilgrims that uses retrieval-augmented generation and runs on a Raspberry Pi. Abrar holds a computer science degree from King AbdulAziz University.

As of October 2026, Afnan is studying biology at the University of Jeddah, with a listed study period of 2024 to 2026.

As of October 2026, Afnan is doing Master's research at King Abdulaziz University, after a BSc in Chemistry.

Ahmad won first place in the King Saud University Machine Learning Competition in April 2026 and finished the first half of a capstone project on multi-agent reinforcement learning for highway ramp metering in January 2026. As of October 2026, Ahmad is a computer science student at King Saud University.

In September 2026, Ahmad graduated from a KAUST specialization program in energy transition, despite majoring in artificial intelligence at Umm Al-Qura University.

Ahmad started a Master's degree in computer science at KAUST in August 2024 and finished it in June 2026, then began a PhD at KAUST under Prof. Bernard Ghanem in October 2026. Ahmad's paper on retrieving similar soccer foul videos was accepted to ACCV 2026.

Ahmed was a teaching assistant for the KAUST Academy Introduction to Cybersecurity course in early 2026, earned CompTIA Security+ in April 2026, and earned three INE penetration testing certificates (eCPPT, eWPT, eWPTX) in July 2026. As of October 2026, Ahmed is an undergraduate at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University.

Ahmed completed the AI for Sports program with Stats Perform and KAUST Academy in 2025 and led the KFUPM ByteBank Hackathon in December 2025. In June 2026, Ahmed joined intelmatix as a Data Science Intern. Ahmed studies at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Ahmed completed a BSc in Computer Science from Goldsmiths, University of London, with First Class Honours in March 2026. In July 2026, Ahmed joined KAUST Academy as an AI Research Assistant, mentoring high school students in the Saudi Research Science Institute program, and in August 2026 mentored teams at the MicroMaker hackathon.

Ahmed attended the MenaML Winter School at KAUST in early 2026 and received a KAUST Academy Program 2025 performance award from King Abdulaziz University in November 2025. As of October 2026, Ahmed is at the Usable Systems Lab at King Abdulaziz University.

Alhanouf joined KAUST in September 2026 through the Elevate Program, in AI and Digital Solutions with Network Operations. Before that, Alhanouf spent a year at the Deanship of E-Services at King Khalid University and took third place at the Innovate 4 Impact Hackathon in February 2026.

Ali graduated from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals with a bachelor's degree in bioengineering and honors in June 2026, after an internship at the Saudi Irrigation Organization. In September 2026, Ali earned Saudi Council of Engineers professional accreditation in biomedical engineering.

Ali joined Nesma & Partners as a Data and AI Engineer in March 2026, building data pipelines and AI agents. Ali earned the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner in October 2025 and the AWS Certified AI Practitioner in August 2026.

Ali works as a Cybersecurity Engineer at the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties. In 2026, Ali earned professional accreditation from the Saudi Council of Engineers, the Qualys VMDR certification and the Forcepoint DLP System Engineer certification, and returned to the KAUST Academy cybersecurity program in a new role in January.

AlJasser graduated with a BSc in Information Systems from King Abdulaziz University in June 2026. AlJasser also completed the KAUST Academy AI Specialization Program in summer 2026, was a Top Participant in its Kaggle tournament, and gave lectures on how AI systems fail and on prompt injection.

Aljori presented the capstone project Waddah in June 2026, an app that teaches children how to ride the Riyadh Metro, built with Flutter and Unity. As of October 2026, Aljori is studying at King Saud University and is also listed at the General Authority for Competition.

Almaan is a computer science undergraduate at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals. In September 2026, Almaan's profile lists a NeurIPS paper on false presuppositions in medical vision-language models and a paper on dyslexia detection at KFUPM JURI.

Alreem is an information technology student at Higher Colleges of Technology, specializing in security and forensics. Alreem earned the CCNA and EC-Council Ethical Hacking Essentials certificates, received an Academic Excellence Award in June 2026, and represented the Ras Al Khaimah campus in the 2026 cyber security skills competition.

Alzahra earned a bachelor's degree in applied chemistry with second honors from Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University in May 2026. In 2026, Alzahra took part in the KAUST Academy and Energy Exemplar PLEXOS training and presented the grid simulation project Tawazun. As of October 2026, Alzahra works at ALS Arabia.

Amjad started a master's in Precision Health at the University of Chicago in fall 2026. Amjad earned the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties Medical Laboratory Specialist license in September 2025 and was appointed to a Thiqat Council at King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences in December 2025.

Amjad started as an AI Engineering Intern at Lucidya in March 2026 while studying at King AbdulAziz University.

Amjad earned a master's degree from King Abdulaziz University in 2026 and was honored in October 2026 for ranking first among female master's graduates of the College of Science. The research studied novel drugs for colorectal cancer. In September 2026, Amjad was classified as a Clinical Biochemistry Specialist by the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties.

Ammar graduated from the Tuwaiq Academy Cybersecurity Bootcamp in January 2026 and won first place in its network CTF. Ammar earned the OSCP+ in January 2026 and the OSWP in October 2026, and reported a vulnerability in a Huawei product that Huawei PSIRT confirmed in June 2026.

As of October 2026, Anas works at Nabrah.AI, building generative models.

Anas started as a Co-op Trainee in the AI and Research division at Elm Company in January 2026. Anas returned to KAUST Academy in 2026 as a teaching assistant for the AI Specialization Program and completed a graduation project on knowledge distillation with vision-language models.

Aseel graduated in cybersecurity with first honors from Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University in May 2026. In 2026, Aseel did co-op training at SAB in fraud management and at sirar by stc as an Internal Cybersecurity Trainee, and earned the CompTIA Security+ certification in July 2026.

As of October 2026, Aseel works at Saudi Aramco.

As of October 2026, Asma works at Master Works. Asma completed the Saudi Digital Academy Generative AI LLM Bootcamp in November 2025 and reached the top 30 of 242 teams at the AgentX hackathon in December 2025 with the project VocaLink.

Badr works as an AI Engineer at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center. Badr graduated in computer science from King AbdulAziz University in May 2025, was a KAUST teaching assistant for 8 weeks in summer 2025, and was one of 25 people selected from over 8,000 for the SDAIA and Groq AI agents program.

As of October 2026, Balqees works at Sensor Tower. Balqees completed the McKinsey Forward Program in June 2026, and the profile lists studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during 2026.

As of October 2026, Baraa is studying at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals and is also listed at Dhahran Techno Valley. Baraa spoke about the KAUST Academy AI track at KAUST Connect in November 2025 and was a teaching assistant for its AI program in early 2026.

Bashayer graduated in computer science, AI track, from King Khalid University with second honors in February 2026. As of October 2026, Bashayer works at Tuwaiq Academy. Bashayer's team received recognition from the Saudi Space Agency for the Suha project, and a paper was accepted at a computer graphics conference.

As of October 2026, Boushra works at VR House. Boushra graduated in computer science with first class honors from Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, was a teaching assistant for the KAUST Academy AI Program in January 2026, and taught AI in the KAUST Summer AI Program in July 2026.

As of October 2026, Dalia works at Technology Control Company. Dalia studied at Tuwaiq Academy from August to December 2025 and earned the OffSec Defense Analyst and INE eCTHP certifications in 2026.

Dina won Best Project in Track at the Major Design Experience Expo at Virginia Tech in May 2026 and started studies at KAUST in August 2026.

Dyaa graduated with a bachelor's degree in cybersecurity from the University of Jeddah with first honors in July 2026. Dyaa returned to the KAUST Academy Cybersecurity Specialization Summer Program in 2026 as a teaching assistant and earned the eJPTv2 certification in March 2026.

Aws completed the PIF Graduate Development Program through azm Academy in July 2026 and presented the first Lunch & Learn held across AECOM, on safe use of AI, in October 2026. Aws earned the PMP in March 2026 and completed the Mustashar MiniMBA in October 2026.

Essam joined stc in October 2026 through its talent incubation program in cyber threat intelligence. Essam graduated from Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University in 2026 with a Bachelor's degree in Cyber Security and Digital Forensics and earned the eCPPT, eCIR and CompTIA Security+ certifications.

Eyad graduated with a bachelor's degree in software engineering with honors from King Saud University, announced in February 2026. Eyad returned to KAUST Academy in January 2026 as a teaching assistant for the Intro to AI program.

As of October 2026, Eyad is at UC San Diego.

Fahad started a position as a Managed Security Services (MSS) Operations Trainee in October 2025.

As of October 2026, Fahad is enrolled in the KAUST Gifted Student Program (2023-2028).

Faisal joined Marsh in November 2025 as an Analyst in Risk Management Practices through the Marsh Risk GOO program. Faisal graduated first in the class in computer science from King Saud University in 2025, and later joined KAUST Academy's AI for Sports program.

Faisal is studying at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2024-2028). In summer 2026, Faisal did a research internship at KAUST's IMPACT Lab on superconducting quantum circuits. In September 2026, Faisal won third place at the Illinois Founders Hackathon 54.

Faisal started as a Technical AI Instructor with Learning Space in July 2026, delivering AI training programs at SDAIA Academy. In April 2026, Faisal placed fifth among more than 3,000 projects in the Asir region in the Ajawid initiative with the Asir Electronic Guide project.

Farah is pursuing a Master's degree in computer science at Columbia University in New York. Farah's paper on identity leakage in privacy-preserving action recognition was accepted to ACCV 2026, and Farah and a team won the Material Discovery Hackathon at KACST in January 2026. Farah also worked as a teaching assistant for KAUST Academy's AI Specialization.

Faris started as a Cybersecurity Engineer at SITE in July 2026, after joining the National Cybersecurity Authority's Cyber Pro graduate development program in October 2025. Faris earned CompTIA Security+, Linux+, Network+ and CySA+ and worked as a Teaching Assistant for KAUST Academy's Cybersecurity Specialization.

Faris is a Data Scientist at Mobily, working on generative AI and machine learning, and attended Mobily's Telecom Mini MBA program in August 2026. Faris earned the NVIDIA-Certified Associate: Generative AI LLMs certification in February 2026 and is listed at Georgia Institute of Technology for 2026-2028.

Faris joined COGNNA in July 2026 as a Threat Detection Trainee on a six-month co-op. Faris earned CompTIA Security+ in April 2026, led the technical student council at King Faisal University, and published a first blog post in October 2026 on finding process-injection malware.

As of October 2026, Fatima is a senior Information Systems student at Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University in Riyadh.

Fatima started a Master's in Bioinformatics at the University of Michigan Medical School in August 2026, in the Data Science and Machine Learning track. Earlier, Fatima presented the QLife graduation project in December 2025 and worked as a Teaching Assistant for KAUST Academy's Introduction to Bioinformatics.

In November 2025, Fatima joined the scientific committee of the National Biotechnology Forum 2025, organized by the University of Tabuk.

As of October 2026, Fatimah is a student at King Faisal University. In January 2026, Fatimah worked as a Teaching Assistant for the introductory stage of KAUST Academy's AI program.

As of October 2026, Fawaz is at KStack while studying computer science at King Abdulaziz University. In October 2026, Fawaz was chosen as Vice Leader of the Data Science department at Tuwaiq Club KAU.

In February 2026, Firas served as a Teaching Assistant for Stage 3 of KAUST Academy's Specialized Artificial Intelligence Program.

Ghadah spent a year working in semiconductor and advanced device fabrication at the Nanofabrication Core Lab at KAUST Core Labs, as shared in October 2026. In November 2025, Ghadah presented a bachelor's graduation project at the American Chemical Society Saudi Chapter International Conference.

Ghadeer started a Master's in Chemistry at KAUST in August 2026.

Ghadi graduated from Taif University in June 2026 with second class honors.

In summer 2026, Ghaida worked as an AI Research Assistant at KAUST with KAUST Academy, mentoring students, teaching AI concepts and supporting research projects. In November 2025, Ghaida's team reached the final stages of the AgentX Hackathon with Abaad Agent.

Ghala is in the senior year of an Electrical and Computer Engineering degree at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. In summer 2026, Ghala worked at CERN on FPGA acceleration of a CMS reconstruction algorithm for the High-Luminosity LHC upgrade.

Hadeel graduated from King Saud University in 2026 with first class honors in cybersecurity. By August 2026, Hadeel had completed a co-op at the Saudi Power Procurement Company in cybersecurity and data management, and earned the eCTHP certification with 96% in July 2026.

Haifa works at Tahakom. Haifa earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from King Saud University with first class honors and a 4.98 GPA, and earned the Alibaba Cloud Computing Engineer certification at Tuwaiq Academy in November 2025.

Haifa completed a six-month Data Analyst internship under the Tamheer program at Saudi Ground Services in 2025 and worked as a teaching assistant on KAUST Academy's Introduction to AI bootcamp. In August 2026, Haifa earned the Azure AI Apps and Agents Developer Associate certification.

Hams works at Saudi Aramco. Hams earned the CompTIA Security+ certification in January 2026, and a paper on RASID, a secure UAV-based platform for traffic accident assessment, was published in Frontiers in Computer Science in December 2025.

As of October 2026, Haneen is a cybersecurity student at Taibah University. In summer 2026, Haneen worked as a Teaching Assistant for the KAUST Academy Summer Program (MOI MEng Cybersecurity).

Hasan is a third-year computer science student at King Khalid University. In summer 2026, Hasan did a VLSI internship at NIELIT Haridwar, taught Python and machine learning to high school students for KAUST Academy, and joined the Energy Exemplar Summer Program at KAUST. In October 2026, Hasan's team won second place at the FARQ Hackathon.

Hashim is studying computer engineering at King Abdulaziz University (2024-2029). In summer 2026, Hashim worked as a Teaching Assistant in the KAUST Gifted Student Program Emerging Technology Program and took part in the CanSat Competition organized by the American Astronautical Society.

Hassan is studying at King Abdulaziz University (2022-2027). In April 2026, Hassan's team won third place in the Data Innovation Hackathon organized by the General Authority for Statistics. In July 2026, Hassan completed AI training at Huawei's headquarters in Shenzhen as one of 20 students chosen through Mawhiba.

Hassan is a senior AI student at University of Prince Mugrin. In August 2026, Hassan served as an AI Teaching Assistant with KAUST Academy for the Public Investment Fund Graduate Program at PIF Tower, teaching Master's students.

In August 2026, Hebah shared having been part of the journey of the Saudi national AI team, which won three medals at the International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence in Astana, Kazakhstan. In 2025, Hebah taught students in the STEPs summer program and took part in KAUST Academy's AI for Sports program.

As of October 2026, Hissah is listed at King Saud University, where Hissah earned a degree in 2025 with first class honors.

Husain completed an AI engineering internship with HP SCDS in Spain in 2026. As of October 2026, Husain is studying at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals and lists the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority as a current organization.

Ibrahim completed an internship at ROSEN in the Netherlands in 2026, working with pipeline inspection data. As of October 2026, Ibrahim is studying at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

Iyas took part in the KAUST Academy AI Specialization in 2025, then worked as a teaching assistant and AI teacher for middle and high school students in KAUST programs in 2026. As of October 2026, Iyas works at Olo.

Jana was a teaching assistant for the KAUST Academy AI Specialization in 2026 and graduated from Umm Al-Qura University with first-class honors in July 2026, in the first AI cohort. In August 2026, Jana started a Master's in Computer Science at KAUST.

Jana's research paper won first place at the Research Conference for Students of Makkah Region Universities in February 2026, and the senior project was selected among the top 10 at the University of Jeddah College of Computer Science and Engineering. In September 2026, Jana started a Master's in Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at KAUST.

Jehad worked on the ground station and telemetry team of DRAGSAT, which reached the final stage of CanSat 2026, and taught AI and machine learning to middle and high school students for three weeks. As of October 2026, Jehad is studying electrical and computer engineering at King Abdulaziz University.

Jood completed the nine-week Cloud Management Bootcamp run by SDAIA Academy and Rackspace Technology in late 2025 and was honored for it at the ICAN conference in January 2026. Jood graduated from Qassim University and now works in the government sector.

As of October 2026, Joori is a Master's student in computer science, with an interest in MLOps.

Joud graduated in artificial intelligence from Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University in 2025 and earned the IELTS Academic certificate in October 2025. As of October 2026, Joud works at Academy of learning Co..

Joudi completed the ELEVATE Program at KAUST in September 2026, working in the Imaging and Characterization Core Lab. Joudi graduated in physics from King Abdulaziz University in 2025.

Khadijah earned a Saudi Council of Engineers certificate in catalysis and the energy transition in October 2025. As of October 2026, Khadijah is studying at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University.

Khadijah received an Excellence Award from Saudi Ground Services in August 2026 and earned the Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst Associate certification in July 2026. Khadijah also took part in the KAUST Academy AI Specialization in 2025 and completed the AWS AI & ML Scholars challenge.

Khaled joined Huawei as a Data Center Solution Manager in June 2026 while finishing a data science degree at Higher Colleges of Technology. Before that, Khaled completed a six-month internship at Microsoft UAE and earned four Microsoft certifications.

As of October 2026, Khalid is studying at Virginia Tech.

Khalid started a Master's in Bioscience, specializing in cell and molecular biology, at KAUST in September 2026. Earlier in 2026, Khalid joined the SAUDI SPEAKERS fellowship and was accepted into the McKinsey.org Forward program.

Khalid graduated from King Saud University in March 2026 with a bachelor's degree in applied computing, cybersecurity track. Khalid finished the Tuwaiq Academy cybersecurity bootcamp in July 2026, ranked first in Saudi Arabia and 11th worldwide on CyberDefenders, and earned the OffSec Defense Analyst and INE eCIR certifications.

Khalid studied at the University of Jeddah until December 2025. As of October 2026, Khalid works through SEDER GROUP and contributes to Huawei's Network Operations Center.

Lama earned the Certified Ethical Hacker certification from EC-Council in September 2025.

Lama started a Master's in Bioengineering at KAUST in September 2026, specializing in bioinformatics and machine learning. Before that, Lama returned to KAUST as a bioinformatics teaching assistant in January 2026 and earned the Google Project Management Professional Certificate.

Lamis started a Master's in Bioinformatics, with a concentration in Information Sciences, at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in January 2026.

Layan earned the IELTS Academic certificate in March 2026. The profile lists mechanical engineering studies at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals ending in May 2026.

As of October 2026, Leen is studying at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with a bachelor's degree expected in 2028.

As of October 2026, Lojain is a graduate of the College of Science at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University.

Maan passed the Microsoft Azure AI-103 exam in July 2026 and earned the Azure AI Apps and Agents Developer Associate certification. Maan holds a B.Sc. in artificial intelligence and studied at the University of Jeddah from 2020 to 2025.

As of October 2026, Maha works at Madinah Regional Municipality.

Maher works at Avnzor as a full-stack software engineer. After KAUST Academy, Maher started Tuwaiq Academy's cloud computing and AI program in October 2025 and took part in the Samsung Innovation Campus AI course, which ran into January 2026.

Mahmoud started a Master's degree at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in August 2026.

Majed joined Google as a Software Engineering Intern in Seattle in summer 2026. As of October 2026, Majed is an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley, where studies run through May 2027.

Majed completed a co-op traineeship in operational technology cybersecurity at Petrokemya, a SABIC affiliate, and graduated with a BSc in computer science from Jubail Industrial College in 2026. Majed earned CompTIA Security+, eJPT, eCIR and eCTHP certifications between November 2025 and May 2026.

Manaf's current organization is COGNNA, where a colleague describes Manaf as a senior member of the Threat Detection team. Manaf passed the Red Team Operator exam in July 2026 and the PNPT penetration testing exam in October 2026, and studies at Saudi Electronic University.

Manar works at Ananas Insurance as an AI engineer. In early 2026, Manar's team won first place in the Elm Digital Integrity Challenge at the MenaML Winter School, held with KAUST. Manar also published a paper on machine learning for dental ceramic shade selection in March 2026.

Maram began a PhD at KAUST in September 2026 in Prof. Zhiping Lai's research group, after interning there. Maram holds a Master's degree in Analytical Chemistry from King Abdulaziz University and published research on activated carbon for water treatment in 2026.

Marwan completed the McKinsey Forward Program in June 2026.

As of October 2026, Mawaddah is studying at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Maysoon joined KAUST in November 2025 as a visiting student in a research program on extracting metals from brine, and finished the seven-month stay in May 2026. In 2026, Maysoon also returned to the KAUST Academy Energy Transition program as a teaching assistant.

Mazen works at the Ministry of Interior. After the 2024 Summer AI program, Mazen was a teaching assistant for KAUST Academy's Introduction to AI course in January 2025, graduated from King AbdulAziz University in May 2025, and joined KAUST Academy's AI for Sports program in 2025.

Meshal graduated from King AbdulAziz University with a bachelor's degree in information technology in July 2026. Meshal earned the Hack The Box Certified Defensive Security Analyst credential in March 2026 and the eCTHP in May 2026.

Meshari is studying at King Saud University. In 2026, Meshari's team placed second at Defensethon with the project Seyaj, Meshari worked as a teaching assistant in IoT, robotics and drones at a KAUST summer program, and was accepted into Tuwaiq Academy's High Performance Drones Bootcamp.

Mishary started as a Software Engineer Intern at Zid in October 2025. In April 2026, Mishary received the first-place Best Student Award from SAMI Advanced Electronics.

As of October 2026, Misk is studying at the University of California, Berkeley.

As of October 2026, Moath works at Plat4mation.

In November 2025, the president of King AbdulAziz University recognized Mohamad for graduating from the KAUST Academy program.

Mohammad works at Qassim Cement Company and took a Power BI course through its talent management team in September 2026. In January 2026, Mohammad completed the Samsung Innovation Campus AI program with Misk Skills, leading the Stay Ahead churn prediction capstone.

Mohammad was a teaching assistant for a KAUST Academy stage 2 course in Hofuf in 2026. Mohammad completed the Samsung Innovation Campus AI course with Misk (13 July to 12 September 2026) and taught advanced data engineering to 50 girls at the DAICO lab in July 2026.

As of October 2026, Mohammad is studying at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is listed at Badger Consulting.

Mohammad started as a Business Analyst at Strategy& Middle East in October 2025.

As of October 2026, Mohammed is studying at The University of Texas at Austin.

Mohammed is an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, class of 2028. In June 2026, Mohammed's team placed second at the CYVL Physical AI hackathon on urban planning.

Mohammed earned a bachelor's degree in information technology from King Abdulaziz University in August 2026 and joined Nahdi Medical Company as a Customer Engagement and Digital Channels Solutions Intern in July 2026. Mohammed also co-founded ZeroOne Digital Solutions in May 2026.

Mohammed works at Al Rajhi Bank. Mohammed graduated in computer science from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in May 2025 with first honors, joined KAUST Academy's Cybersecurity Specialization in 2025, and earned two Oracle Cloud Infrastructure AI certifications in October 2025.

Mohammed earned INE Security certifications in threat hunting, digital forensics and web application penetration testing (eWPTX, December 2025). Mohammed received a certificate of recognition from the president of King Abdulaziz University in November 2025. Studies there were listed to end in August 2026.

Mohammed started as a software engineer at Atmata in January 2026. Before that, Mohammed was a teaching assistant at King Abdulaziz University for CPIT 110, an introductory Python course for preparatory-year students.

As of October 2026, Mohammed has an electrical engineering background from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, with studies ending in December 2025.

Mohammed joined MawHub as an AI Engineering Intern in September 2026, working on LLMs and agentic workflows. Earlier, Mohammed took first place at the NASA Youth Changemakers hackathon, completed the KAUST Academy AI specialization in 2025, and joined a summer research program at Alfaisal University.

Mohammed joined HUMAIN as an AI Software Engineer in October 2026. Mohammed graduated from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in software engineering with first honor, after a year at the fintech company Stream and a stint as a teaching assistant on the KAUST Academy AI program.

As of October 2026, Mohammed's profile describes a computer science undergraduate at Qassim University, with studies listed as 2021 to 2026.

Mohammed works at SAAI in Riyadh and represented it at LEAP 2026. Mohammed completed the Samsung Innovation Campus AI program with Misk Skills in September 2026, earned the CAIE certification, and judged the BUILDx Hackathon in October 2026.

Muhammad is studying at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, with a degree expected in 2027. In December 2025, Muhammad's team won 2nd place at the ByteBank hackathon with FreelanceScore, an idea to widen microfinancing for freelancers in Saudi Arabia.

Muhannad is a student at Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University and a teaching assistant for KAUST Academy's AI Specialization. In 2026 Muhannad taught machine learning in stage 2, computer vision in stage 3, and was a teaching assistant for the stage 4 summer program.

Munira taught 52 middle and high school students in a collaboration between the Ministry of Education and KAUST Academy, as shared in August 2026.

As of October 2026, Munthir is an undergraduate at the University of Washington in Seattle, class of 2028, and is listed with the university's Human Powered Submarine Team.

Muruj volunteered as an exam proctor for the KAUST Academy Specializations Placement Exam in January 2026. Muruj also earned the IELTS Academic result in late 2025 and completed a HACCP and ISO 22000 food safety course.

Musa started as a Software Quality Assurance Tester Intern at Sawt in June 2026, while studying software engineering at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals. Musa built Ice Offering, a course-planning platform that reached 4,000 accounts within 15 days of its April 2026 relaunch.

Mzon was a teaching assistant in the KAUST Academy Energy Transition Program at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in early 2026. In July 2026, Mzon joined the KAUST Academy and Energy Exemplar program on PLEXOS energy market modeling and earned the PLEXOS Fundamentals certification in September 2026.

Mzoun's review paper on perovskite solar cells coupled with graphene supercapacitors was published in the journal Results in Engineering in September 2025.

Nabil works at Eyeon Vision Intelligence. Nabil earned the Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator certification (EX280) in December 2025.

Naif completed co-op training in the AI Product Development Department at Tahakom in September 2026, after working there as an AI Product Development Intern from August. Naif also completed the Saudi Speakers Fellowship in June 2026. Naif's latest organization is Project1932.

Najwan joined Andalusia Hospital as a quality specialist through the Tamheer program in June 2026. Najwan also completed courses in ISO/IEC 17025 laboratory standards (December 2025) and ISO 9001 quality management (April 2026).

Nawaf works at Saudi Business Machines. Nawaf earned INE eJPT and eCTHP certifications in October 2025, eCIR in February 2026 and Splunk Core Certified Power User in September 2026.

Nisrin was admitted to the University of Edinburgh in September 2026 to study Sustainable Energy Systems, supported by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Scholarship Program. In 2026, Nisrin also trained as a Teaching Assistant and joined the PLEXOS Trading summer program with Energy Exemplar and KAUST Academy.

Norah took part in the AgentX hackathon in November 2025, the first hackathon Norah had joined.

Norah spent eight weeks in summer 2026 as a CERN Summer Student, working on mechanical integration and thermal simulation for the CMS Endcap Timing Layer detector. As of October 2026, Norah is studying mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Norah graduated in 2025 with a first-class honors bachelor's degree in data science and analytics from Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University. Norah completed a Big Data and Analytics internship at stc and later joined the KAUST Academy AI for Sports program, building a football match analysis system.

Noura completed the e& Bidayati Internship Programme at e& UAE in September 2026, working in the Business Department. Noura also presented a business analytics capstone project at Higher Colleges of Technology in May 2026 and completed the Nomu Al Ghurair TechUp AI Fundamentals course in September 2025.

Obai graduated in June 2026 with a bachelor's degree in computer science from Taibah University with a 4.76/5 GPA. Obai worked as a teaching assistant for the KAUST Academy Cybersecurity Program in January 2026 and again soon after graduation.

As of October 2026, Ohoud is a first-class honors graduate in information technology from Jazan University, specializing in artificial intelligence.

Omar works at SENAAT. In October 2025, Omar spoke at KAUST Connect, an event hosted by the KFUPM Computer Club, to more than 400 students from three universities.

Omar is studying at King AbdulAziz University. In April 2026, Omar's team placed third at the General Authority for Statistics Data Innovation Hackathon with HARIS, a tool that validates survey data in real time. In February 2026, Omar also placed in the top three of the Dal Shemagh Detection Challenge on Kaggle.

As of October 2026, Omar studies at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University and holds a current position at netzero. In summer 2025, Omar also joined the KAUST Academy AI for Sports specialization program.

Osama works at the Saudi Information Technology Company (SITE). In November 2025, Osama earned the INE Certified Threat Hunting Professional (eCTHP) certification.

Qasim started as a part-time AI Researcher at Nexta in September 2026, after a co-op there and the KAUST Academy x Energy Exemplar internship program in summer 2026. In October 2026, Qasim's team placed fifth in the Farq hackathon at Al Yamamah University with Waypoint, a student companion tool.

Rashed started as an AI Engineer at SAMI Advanced Electronics in January 2026. Rashed also earned the Udacity Agentic AI certification in January 2026.

Raed earned a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification in February 2026. In February 2026, Raed announced a talk by a Tamara data lead organized by DRAG KAU.

In October 2025, Raghad's project on protein expression during C. elegans larval development ranked fifth among the top 10 posters in the KAUST Academy Bioinformatics program. Raghad also spoke about the program at KAUST Connect that month and presented at the Dalah platform booth in November 2025.

Raghad graduated in 2026 with a first-class honors bachelor's degree in cybersecurity from Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University and completed a co-op at SITE in July 2026. Raghad earned the INE eCIR and eCTHP certifications and joined the KAUST Academy Cybersecurity Specialization at Duke University in 2025.

Raghad is a Senior Product Analyst at Takamol Holding. Raghad had a paper published in Frontiers in October 2025 and another on Elsevier ScienceDirect in June 2026, and was selected as a scholar for MenaML 2026 from over 2,300 applicants.

Raghd works at ENEVO ARABIA. In October 2025, Raghd was recognized among the top 10 alumni of the KAUST Academy Energy Transition Specialization in its final poster competition.

As of October 2026, Rahaf is studying materials engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles, sponsored by the KAUST Gifted Student Program.

Rahaf started an MPhil in Computational Biology at the University of Cambridge in October 2026, in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. Rahaf graduated in biochemistry from King AbdulAziz University in 2026 and placed third in the KAUST Academy bioinformatics track.

Rahaf works at Dalah. In October 2025, Rahaf's poster ranked third in the KAUST evaluation of the Bioinformatics program, and Rahaf was named to the Dean's Honor List at Umm Al-Qura University. In 2026, Rahaf returned to KAUST Academy as a teaching assistant.

Ramah holds a current position at SABIC and studied at King AbdulAziz University through June 2026. Ramah earned CompTIA Security+ in October 2025 and the INE eCIR and eCTHP certifications in September and October 2026.

As of October 2026, Rama is an aspiring full-stack AI engineer with a background in artificial intelligence from the University of Jeddah.

Rawan is at Traveln.ai and studies at the University of Sharjah, where Rawan made the 2024-2025 Dean's List. Rawan also completed Duke University's Data+ program in May 2025 and joined KAUST Academy's Summer AI program in 2024 and AI Specialization in 2025.

Rawan completed online courses on environmental and public health topics in November and December 2025, including Global Environmental Management from the Technical University of Denmark and Chemicals and Health from Johns Hopkins University.

Raya's project Bayyin and Bassit won Best Poster in its division in May 2026 and was chosen among the college's top 10 projects. In January 2026, Raya worked as a teaching assistant at KAUST Academy. Raya is also a volunteer staff member at Mawhiba.

Rayan joined EY as a consulting intern in February 2026, after finishing a six-month fellowship at Jeel Tamooh with Boston Consulting Group in December 2025. Rayan also completed the KAUST Academy AI for Sports program in September 2025 and began a PwC Middle East sustainability mentorship in January 2026.

Razan earned the eCIRv2 and CHFI certifications and was accepted as a speaker at Black Hat MEA with a talk on AI in digital forensics and incident response. In September 2026, Razan became one of the people teaching in the KAUST cybersecurity program that Razan attended as a student.

Reem joined NEOM in November 2025 as a Renewable Energy Engineer and GROW Specialist in the Energy Division at ENOWA, through NEOM's Graduate Development Program. Reem's KAUST Academy Energy Transition project won 2nd place, and Reem's team took 2nd place in the WE Rise Mentorship Program project competition in June 2026.

Reema graduated from Higher Colleges of Technology with a Bachelor's degree in nursing in January 2026. Reema was accepted into the AI for Healthcare track of the NOMU Al Ghurair AI in Industries Program, starting in March 2026.

Rema completed an internship at Aramco in Global Manufacturing Planning and Performance Management in summer 2026 and was accepted into the McKinsey Forward Program. Rema also joined the KAUST Academy AI Specialization at Duke University in 2025 and studies at the University of Sharjah.

Ridha is studying at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University and worked as a teaching assistant for KAUST Academy cybersecurity courses in 2026. Ridha earned the INE eCTHP, eCPPT and eWPTX certifications and CompTIA Security+ in 2026.

Riyadh works at the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority as of October 2026.

Roba started a co-op at Boston Consulting Group as a Visiting Associate in August 2026, while studying electrical engineering at King Abdulaziz University. Roba also directed the Protothon hackathon and completed a senior design project on an autonomous beach-cleaning robot.

Ruam works at Project1932. Ruam spent nine months at the Apple Developer Academy at Tuwaiq, leaving with three apps live on the App Store, and earned the Mastercard Advisors & Consulting Services certification in October 2026.

Saad is a medical student at the University of Tabuk as of October 2026.

Saeed is a computer science student at King Khalid University as of October 2026.

Safwan works at BestCircle AI. Safwan's paper TWASEL on sign language recognition was published in the CVPR 2026 Workshops, and a second paper on privacy-preserving action recognition was accepted to ACCV 2026.

Sattam and a team won Best AI Poster in the Computer Science and AI department at the University of Jeddah in May 2026 with BASL, a senior project that translates between Arabic and Saudi Sign Language using a 3D avatar.

Shaden is a computer engineering student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and made the Dean's List in December 2025. Shaden represented KAUST's Shaheen-3 team at SC25 in November 2025 and was a research intern in Carnegie Mellon's REUSE program in summer 2026.

Shahad is a Master's student at KAUST. In 2026, Shahad was selected for the 5th COP Simulation Capacity Building Programme as one of 300 youth leaders from more than 2,400 applicants, and as an online delegate to the World Bank Group Youth Summit.

Shahad is an MSc student in Materials Science and Engineering. In May 2026, King Khalid University invited Shahad to its graduation ceremony as the top graduate in physics, and Shahad completed the first stage of the Mawhiba MetaMind program in February 2026.

Shahad started a new position as a Teaching Assistant at KAUST Academy in January 2026.

Shouq's project ranked second in the KAUST Academy cybersecurity track in October 2025, and Shouq joined the KAUST Women in STEM program in September 2025. As of October 2026, Shouq is employed.

Shouq works at Maaden. Shouq started as an AI Business Analyst Intern at HAMS.AI in February 2026 and took part in the Saudi Digital Academy and Ironhack DevOps and Cloud Computing bootcamp. Shouq also completed the KAUST Academy AI for Sports program in 2025.

Shouq will pursue a Master's in Materials Science and Engineering at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Shouq left ACWA Operations in August 2026 after nearly three years at the 2.66 GW Shuaibah PV Plant.

Shouq returned to the KAUST Academy Bioinformatics Specialization in early 2026 as a teaching assistant.

Suhaib started as a program administrator at KAUST in March 2026. Before that, Suhaib hosted KAUST Academy webinars for applicants and worked as a teaching assistant for both KAUST bioinformatics courses. Suhaib also earned the DeepLearning.AI Neural Networks and Deep Learning certificate in January 2026.

Sultan graduated in computer science from the University of Jeddah in July 2026 and earned the OSCP and OSCP+ certifications in September 2026. Sultan was assigned a CVE for a WebMap vulnerability and taught 60 hours as an instructor in the KAUST Summer AI Program in 2026.

Sultanh started as an Identity and Access Management Specialist at stc in September 2026, after graduating from the University of Jeddah with a bachelor's degree in cybersecurity and first honors. Sultanh's graduation project won the Best Scientific Poster Award at the university.

As of October 2026, Taif works at Saudi Med AI Lab. Taif also launched BioRead, a website that publishes a summary of an open-access bioinformatics paper three times a week, and earned the Mustashar MiniMBA certification in February 2026.

Tala completed co-op training at stc in the AI and Analytics Center of Excellence in August 2026 and finished the 30-hour SDAIA Academy training on building agentic AI systems. Tala's computer science graduation project in January 2026 generates Arabic questions from images.

As of October 2026, Talah works at Noon. Talah taught web and app development in Noon's Future Skills program, took part in the KAUST Academy AI in Sports program with Stats Perform in 2025, and announced a published research paper in August 2026.

Waad became a teaching assistant at KAUST Academy after finishing the Energy Transition Specialization, and volunteered at the 2026 closing ceremony. Waad's research poster ranked third best at the specialization programs final ceremony.

As of October 2026, Wael works at netzero. Wael won third place at SUAS 2025 with the UAS2030 team, presented a team project to Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman at KFUPM in January 2025, and was a Saudi Rhodes Scholars finalist.

As of October 2026, Wajd works at The Financial Academy. In February 2026, Wajd showed a graduation project at the World Defense Show 2026.

As of October 2026, Wasayef works at Bupa Arabia. Through the National Cybersecurity Authority's CyberPro+ program, Wasayef earned CompTIA Network+, Linux+, Security+ and CySA+ between November 2025 and January 2026, and the COBIT 2019 Foundation certificate in May 2026.

As of October 2026, Wateen is a medical student at King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences and has a role at Dalah. Wateen received the Best Poster Award at the University of Cambridge in September 2025.

Wedyan returned to Saudi Aramco as a Petroleum Engineering Systems Analyst in March 2026. Wedyan was honored among the top three in the college of computers and information technology, supported KAUST Academy AI webinars, and earned NVIDIA's Generative AI LLMs associate certification in July 2026.

Yara graduated with a bachelor's degree in information systems with first honors from King Abdulaziz University in July 2026. Yara's team won first place in the Elm Digital Integrity Challenge at MenaML 2026, and Yara worked as a teaching assistant in KAUST Academy AI programs, including the 2026 summer program for Ministry of Interior master's students.

Yasir became a full-time System Analyst at Proptech_sa in October 2026, after three months as a trainee. Yasir graduated in January 2026, and Yasir's project on AI discovery of counterexamples in discrete mathematics ranked among the top 10 of 75 AI projects at the KAUST Academy AI Summer School 2025.

Yazan joined MawHub in August 2026 as an AI Engineering Intern, working on LLMs, agentic systems, model training and evaluation. Before that, Yazan interned at Lucidya and earned the NVIDIA Generative AI LLMs associate certification in July 2026.

As of October 2026, Yazan is studying at the University of California, Irvine.

As of October 2026, Yomna is a student at Umm Al-Qura University. From January to July 2026, Yomna completed a six-month cooperative training as a visiting student doing research at KAUST.

As of October 2026, Yousef holds a role at Foreseen.sa while studying artificial intelligence at Umm Al-Qura University.

Zahra earned the Junior Penetration Tester (eJPTv2) certification from INE Security in June 2026.

Zahra graduated with honors in computer science from Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University in 2024, studied advanced AI courses at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, and completed the KAUST Academy AI in Sports program with Stats Perform in 2025. Zahra also joined the McKinsey Forward Program.

Zahraa started a master's degree at KAUST in August 2025 and is still studying there as of October 2026. Zahraa won first place in the KAUST Academy Energy Transition Program and was a teaching assistant for the KAUST Academy Water and Sustainability Program in January 2026.

Zainab invited students to KAUST Connect, an October 2025 event at KFUPM organized with KAUST Academy.

Salehah began a Master's program at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in August 2026, after working as an innovation specialist at a government entity. Salehah completed the KAUST Academy AI for Sports program in 2025.

Abdallah won second place at two datathons in autumn 2024 (the Dal Developmental Datathon and the Elm GenAI Datathon), graduated in computer science from Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, and returned to KAUST Academy as a teaching assistant for the AI program. As of October 2026, Abdallah works at Entropy.

As of October 2026, Abderrahmane is a Data Scientist at Intelmatix in Riyadh.

Abdulaziz started as an intern in the Research & Development team at Schneider Electric's Al-Khobar office in August 2025. Abdulaziz graduated from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals with honors in computer engineering in May 2026 and built a GPU-accelerated actuarial reserving engine.

Abdulaziz received a certificate in March 2025 for contributions to PCI DSS compliance and security. As of October 2026, Abdulaziz is a Database Administrator at Bank AlJazira.

Abdulaziz started as a Cybersecurity Analyst at Accenture in July 2026, after a year at SITE. Abdulaziz won the defense challenge at CyberHub during LEAP25 and earned the INE defense track certifications and the Certified Red Team Professional (CRTP) in June 2026.

Abdulaziz worked as a teaching assistant for the Intro to Bioinformatics course at KAUST Academy in January 2025 and took part in the 5th Health Innovation Hackathon. In late 2025, Abdulaziz represented KAUST and KAUST Academy at a forum for Saudi scholarship students.

Abdulaziz graduated from King Abdulaziz University with a BSc in Electrical Engineering in January 2025 and was accredited by the Saudi Council of Engineers in Electrical Engineering in February 2025. In June 2025, Abdulaziz completed a 30-hour OSHAcademy program in general industry safety and health.

Abdulelah graduated in Information Systems from King Abdulaziz University in 2025 and works at Nagarro. Abdulelah was a teaching assistant for KAUST Academy's Advanced AI program, won the Sanah Hackathon, and completed the SDAIA and University of Oxford AI Application Engineering Bootcamp.

Abdulhadi was a teaching assistant for KAUST Academy's Introduction to AI program in January 2025, then Head of Teaching Assistants for the Advanced AI program at King Abdulaziz University. Abdulhadi graduated in Electrical Engineering (Computers) in June 2025 with first-class honors.

Abdulhadi earned a Train the Trainer certificate from IADC in August 2025, then facilitated an Agentic AI Bootcamp and ran workshops at KFUPM I-HUB. In April 2026, Abdulhadi delivered an 8-day course, Game Creation: Design, Art, and Programming.

Abdullah served as a teaching assistant for the Advanced Cybersecurity Program at KAUST in early 2025, earned CompTIA Security+ in January 2025, and passed the OSCP (Offensive Security Certified Professional) exam in August 2026.

Abdullah started as a Cybersecurity Analyst at Aramco in October 2024. In September 2025, Abdullah's team was named best solution in a Saudi Aramco Talent Essentials Program challenge, and in June 2026 Abdullah presented an internally developed solution at a Cyber Defense Operations Department event.

Abdullah was a teaching assistant for the KAUST Academy introduction and advanced cybersecurity programs in 2025 and graduated from King Abdulaziz University in computer science in June 2025 with first honors. In April 2026, Abdullah started as a Cybersecurity Analyst at Accenture, and completed the SANS ICS Cybersecurity Foundations course in June 2026.

Abdullah published a paper on transfer learning in P300-based brain-computer interfaces at the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence in April 2025 and earned two NVIDIA generative AI associate certifications in July 2025. As of October 2026, Abdullah works at Aramco.

Abdullah was recognized in March 2026 by the First Vice President of the Engineering and Operations business unit for contributions to the unit's operational and strategic goals. As of October 2026, Abdullah works at Tahakom.

Abdullah graduated in computer science with honors from Shaqra University in June 2026. Before that, Abdullah won second place at the Volunteer Hackathon of the Ministry of Municipalities and Housing, completed a sustainable development summer program at the University of Liverpool, and earned the Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) certification.