King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
- Explore
- Share
- Connect
- Build
A university-wide community bringing together faculty, researchers, students, and practitioners interested in exploring, building, and applying AI agents across disciplines.
The idea is simple
Bring people together — then see what they build
Discover what others are working on, share ideas and resources, and find the opportunities to collaborate that are hard to spot from inside a single department.
Explore
Find out what agentic AI actually is, what it can and cannot do yet, and what it might mean for your own field — without needing to be an AI researcher to follow along.
Share
Show what you are working on, however early. Papers, prototypes, failed experiments, useful tools, course material, hard-won lessons: all of it is worth sharing.
Connect
Meet the people across campus who care about the same problems you do — from engineering, science, computing, business, and the labs and centres in between.
Build
Turn conversations into something real: a joint paper, a proposal, a student project, a lab prototype, a pilot with an industry partner.
What we run
Five ways to take part
Everything the community does is designed so that you can join at any level — from quietly listening at the back of a meetup to leading a research group or hosting a challenge.
Monthly Community Meetup
One evening a month: a short talk, lightning updates from around campus, and open time to meet people. No slides required to attend.
See the formatResearch & Collaboration Groups
Small, self-organizing groups around a shared question — agents for scientific discovery, industrial operations, evaluation and safety, education, and more.
Find or start a groupResource & Research Radar
A community-curated view of what to read, what to try, and what to watch: papers, tools, datasets, courses, and funding calls, sorted by how ready they are.
Browse the radarQuarterly Symposium
A half-day gathering four times a year: invited keynote, contributed talks, a poster and demo session, and a panel on where agentic AI is heading.
See what happensDemos / Challenges / Hackathons
Demo nights, multi-week challenges posed by labs and industry partners, and short hackathons where mixed teams ship something that works.
Get buildingWho it is for
No prerequisites, no gatekeeping
Agentic AI is not one department's topic. The interesting problems — reliability, evaluation, domain knowledge, deployment, ethics, cost — sit exactly where disciplines meet. So the community is deliberately open: if you are curious, you belong here.
- You do not need to work on AI to take part.
- You do not need results to present — questions are welcome.
- Talks are pitched to a mixed audience, not to specialists.
- Arabic and English are both welcome in discussion.
Faculty & researchers
Looking for collaborators, a sanity check on a method, or a way to bring agents into an existing research programme.
Graduate students
Working on a thesis that touches agents, or looking for a research direction, a co-author, or an audience for a practice talk.
Undergraduates
Curious, building side projects, or looking for a team, a mentor, and a first real audience for your work.
Staff, engineers & partners
Applying agents to real operational problems in university units, labs, or partner organizations — and willing to share what actually worked.
Getting started
Three steps, in order
Sign up
Add your name to the community list so you hear about the next meetup, the radar digest, and calls for talks and challenges. It takes a minute and commits you to nothing.
Show up once
Come to a monthly meetup and listen. Most people arrive not knowing anyone and leave with two or three names worth following up on.
Bring something
A five-minute lightning update, a paper for the radar, a problem you are stuck on, or a group you would like to start. That is how the community stays worth attending.
Explore. Share. Connect. Build.
Come and find your collaborators
The next meetup is open to everyone at KFUPM. Bring a question, a project, or just your curiosity.