Team

Finding Buddy is built by two co-founders who met at Misk Schools in Riyadh, working with researchers at King Khalid University and KFUPM.

Founders
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Saud Alzahri

Co-founder

Studies Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley. Builds the object detection and directioning systems, and co-authored the IEEE ICCCE 2025 paper.

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Rakan Alsarhan

Co-founder

Studies at University College London (UCL).

Research collaborators
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Dr. Abdullah Alharthi

King Khalid University

Co-author of the IEEE ICCCE 2025 paper on the Sight to Sound framework.

Read the paper →

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