Zain Ahmed '25

Pronouns
2024 Streicker International Fellow
Position
Major: Computer Science
Role
Internship Site: Kibsons International, Dubai, UAE
Bio/Description

During my fellowship, I interned at Kibsons International and FactsERP, based in Dubai, UAE. Kibsons International is a grocery delivery platform offered throughout the United Arab Emirates. The company aims to make the grocery shopping process as simple and seemless as a few taps on your phone or a few clicks on your computer. Kibsons delivers a wide array of products, anything from fruits and vegetable to cakes and flowers, and is constantly adding more to their selections through partnerships with wholesalers and stores in the region. My specific department is the tech research and development team, aimed to develop new software to help Kibsons grow even more, and to maintain all existing software.

I primarily worked within the FactsERP system in order to find ways to utilize artificial intelligence to generate business insights for key executives. The key idea is that there is so much information held within the a company's ERP system, everything from stock quantities, prices purchased and sold for, locations and dates sold from, and more that is not always being utilized to generate insights for top level executives who simply don't have the time to sift through and manipulate the data themselves.

A highlight of my internship experience was presenting on the potential use cases/benefits of AI to the senior leadership at Kibsons and FactsERP, and discussed the various benefits of GPT, Azure OpenAI, and Gemini, especially in an industry with so much data involved with the purchasing and selling of groceries. Outside of work, I went to Abu Dhabi and the marina area in Dubai with friends, and to the Palm Jumeirah. I had an amazing time living in Dubai, meeting so many new people and trying new things like learning how to play padel and oil painting!

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