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Zuhair khayyat

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Founder at Lucidya

San Francisco Bay Area

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Zuhair: together at Saudi Aramco

About

Zuhair Khayyat is Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Lucidya, where he leads development of AI and BigData solutions. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and previously worked at SABIC, ARAMCO, and IBM. He has published papers in venues including EuroSys, VLDB, and SIGMOD, authored a book on Graph Processing, and holds a patent stemming from his research.

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Lucidya's investors · 4

500 GlobalSan Francisco · $150K checks · since 2022Impact46Riyadh · $1M – $22M checks · since 2025Rua Growth Fund$2.3M – $30M checks · since 2025Wa'ed VenturesDhahran · $506K – $25M checks · since 2025

Co-founders at Lucidya

AAAbdullah Asiri
Abdullah AsiriFounder

Experience

  1. LucidyaCo-founder and Chief Technology Officercurrent2017 — presentSaudi Arabia
  2. Qatar Computing Research InstituteResearch Intern2013Doha, Qatar
  3. IBM T. J. Watson Research CenterResearch intern2011Hawthorne, USA
  4. IBM T. J. Watson Research CenterResearch intern2010Hawthorne, USA
  5. SABICUnix Admininstrator2008 — 2009Fanateer, Jubail
  6. Saudi AramcoTraning2007 — 2008Telephone switching unit, Dhahran

Skills & more

Leadership10Team LeadershipSecurity10Computer Science26Big Data1Distributed Systems2Cloud Computing9Programming19Algorithms6Data Mining5Machine Learning3Research3
+12 moreData CenterSoftware DevelopmentProject PlanningLinuxDatabasesLaTeXComputer HardwareHadoopPostgreSQLData CleaningResource Description Framework (RDF)Apache Spark

Languages Arabic · English

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Who is Zuhair khayyat?
Zuhair Khayyat is Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Lucidya, where he leads development of AI and BigData solutions. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and previously worked at SABIC, ARAMCO, and IBM. He has published papers in venues including EuroSys, VLDB, and SIGMOD, authored a book on Graph Processing, and holds a patent stemming from his research.
Where does Zuhair khayyat work?
Zuhair khayyat is Founder of Lucidya.
What companies did Zuhair khayyat found?
Zuhair khayyat founded Lucidya.
Where did Zuhair khayyat go to school?
Zuhair khayyat studied at KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) (Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science); KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) (M.S, Computer Science); King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (B.S, Computer Engineering).

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