Hackathon

KAUST CTL team wins second place at the 3rd Saudi Aramco Digital Hackathon

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A team of PhD students from the Communication Theory Lab (CTL) at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) has won second place at The 3rd Saudi Aramco Digital Hackathon, held in January 2026 as part of the KAUST Winter Enrichment Program (WEP’2026). The team, consisting of Salah Abdeljabar, Hasan Albinsaid, Jose Maria Sosa Gomez, Mohamed Afouene Melki, and Karim Saifullin, competed under the Advanced Sensing, IoT, and Robotics challenge theme. The hackathon brought together graduate students, researchers, and engineers to tackle real industrial challenges proposed by Saudi

SAAI Factory 3

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Buildings 20 and Buildings 19

SAAI Factory 3 brings together artists, researchers and youth to explore AI and art at KAUST.

The 2nd SAAI Factory Hackathon Kickoff Symposium at KAUST

The 2nd SAAI Factory Hackathon Kickoff Symposium 2023

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B20 Auditorium

We are pleased to invite you to the second SAAI (Super Artistic AI) Factory Hackathon 2023, a program chaired by Christoph Faulhaber (Conceptual Artist, Film Maker) and Mohamed Elhoseiny (Computer Science Faculty at KAUST). About SAAI Factory Hackathon Established in 2021, SAAI Factory has been an initiative and one of the first contemporary art-based hackathons on Artificial Intelligence. The hackathon provides a framework for hackers, artists, coders, designers, tech evangelists, creatives, and developers from all disciplines to come together and explore the possibilities opened up by