يزيد فارس

01 Mar 2026

about me

I'm a senior CS student at KFUPM with a concentration in AI & ML. Outside of class, I actively pursue a fellowship by the Society of Actuaries (SOA) in actuarial science, which is basically math & statistics for quantifying risk and uncertainty. Although these may sound as different domains, machine learning and actuarial science are just probabilistic math at the end of the day. I've worked previously as a researcher at the Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA) and as a backend engineer at Gaming+.

Got an idea? Pls get in touch — I would be happy to collaborate :)

Yazeed
SDAIA · KFUPM JRC for AI

actuarial machine learning

A Two-Tower Content-Based Neural Network for Healthcare Plan Recommendation

Traditional actuarial risk leans on unimodal data and linear risk pools. I modelled it instead as the interaction of two vectors: a policyholder's traits and an insurance plan's characteristics that are fed into a two-tower neural network that predicts expected coverage at the micro-level across 407 benefit types. It's a research project, so there's no product link — instead, the model I trained is running live, right here in your browser.

A random policyholder is drawn and scored against a sample of real ACA marketplace plans. Each plan's coverage-match score is the model's summed softmax probability over the benefits that plan actually covers — best vs. worst shows how much coverage the network recovers. Inference runs entirely client-side from an int8-quantized bundle, within 0.0016 of the original model.

The premier professional event of its kind in the Kingdom, organized by students of King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, aimed at empowering young talents and advancing the gaming industry in the Kingdom. The event brings together diverse tracks including game development, esports, content creation, research and innovation, cultural heritage, and gaming entrepreneurship.

KFUPM's gaming, esports & tech community.

visit gamingplus.gg →
my journey at gaming+
  1. 01

    Database & Backend Engineer

    Designed the Postgres/Supabase schema and built the backend APIs behind event registration and scores of over 10,000 gamers.

  2. 02

    Frontend Engineer

    Moved to the frontend to build and polish the Next.js interface — components, animations, and responsive layout for a real time synchronized leaderboard.

  3. 03

    Public Relations

    Cold emailing, back-to-back interviews with people I've never met in my life before, I've been there, but it all paid off. Flew out two of the most renowned gaming industry veterans to give talks at Gaming+:

    Riley Russell (Head, US Kojima Studio)
    Ed Annunziata (CEO, Playchemy)
    Antti Laigi (Senior Lecturer, Metropolia University of Applied Sciences)

fibonacci.asm
    data memory — fib(n)
    hardware · verilog & logisim

    16-bit RISC CPU

    A solo, three-day build of a 16-bit pipelined processor implementing a MIPS-style RISC ISA: an 8-register file, ALU with custom pipelined hazard control, sign-extension, data memory, and branch/jump logic, all wired from the gate level up. The demo on the left runs a real Fibonacci program one instruction at a time; watch the bit signals travel the exact path each instruction takes through the datapath.

    beyond the featured work

    Research & Recognition

    Biocomputation Researcher
    Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (IAU) · Dammam
    Aug 2022 – Jul 2023
    • Collaborated with data-science and epidemiology faculty to analyze biomedical data and identify statistical indicators of peripheral neuropathy in COVID-19 ICU cases.
    • Explored time-series modeling of the temporal correlation between patient health readings and neuropathy-related patterns under limited ICU data-pipeline conditions.
    • 2026

      LeetCode Competition — Ranked 5th

      Programming competition.

    • 2025

      Emerging Professor Program (EPP) — Nominee

      Nominated by President Muhammad Al-Saggaf for a faculty-track professor career scholarship at KFUPM.

    • 2024

      Assess & Advise Statistics & Probability Competition — 3rd Place

      Modeled drone catastrophic-failure trends and surfaced design bottlenecks via probabilistic analysis and hypothesis testing.

    • 2023

      Ibdaa National Research Olympiad — Medal Recipient

      National medal for a biocomputation study on statistical indicators of peripheral neuropathy in biomedical data.

    • 2023

      Arab World Youth Programming Competition — 5th Place

      Merit-based award recognizing algorithmic design and analytical reasoning in an international competition.

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