About us

SDAIA-KFUPM Joint Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (JRC-AI) was recently established in January 2022 at KFUPM to advance the research in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The center was first announced at the Global AI summit in September 2022. Our aim is to establish the Kingdom as a global leader among the league of data-driven economies by conducting and supporting research and innovation in AI, developing use-cases and solutions in accordance with the Saudi National Strategy of Data & AI to achieve the Kingdom’s Vision 2030.


Research Themes in Artificial In...

Time Series

Time Series Research focuses on analyzing data collected over time to identif...

Computer Vision

Computer Vision is an area of AI whose aim is to emulate the human vision by ...

Natural Language Processing

Research within Natural Language Processing (NLP) theme focuses on fundament...

Machine Learning & Deep Learning

Research in this field is focused on developing and delivering state of the a...

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Latest news

ICCV Conference
19 Oct 2025 @ 12:00 PM

A team of our researchers represented KFUPM on the global stage by organizing a workshop at the e...

Summer School on Data Analytics in London
06 Jul 2025 @ 12:00 PM

The center collaborated with University College London in organizing a summer school on data anal...

National KKESH Eye Hackathon
14 Dec 2025 @ 12:00 PM

Center students under the mentorship of Dr. Hamzah Luqman have won first place in the National KK...

AI Crash Courses
15 Oct 2024 @ 04:00 PM

AI Crash Courses: a series of engaging webinars focused on the fundamentals and real-world applic...

Events

Just Analytics Competition
28 Aug 2025 @ 12:00 PM
Building 15, Room 4001

AI Co-Innovation Program: Turnin...
10 Aug 2025 @ 08:00 AM

GenAI & LLMs
23 Jul 2025 @ 10:00 AM

Just Analytics Workshops - Day 3
08 May 2025 @ 06:30 PM