Introductions – meet the people behind the projects

[arudaev]

Welcome to THD AI – an independent project showroom and collaboration space for people connected to THD. Personal and university projects belong alongside one another, at your own pace. AI-assisted work is welcome; care, quality, and honest credit matter.

Tell us a little about yourself:

• What are you learning or building?
• What interests you about AI, software, design, or useful campus tools?
• Would you like to join a project, find teammates, or bring an idea of your own?

Beginners are welcome. A small first contribution is enough to get started. Explore the showroom, ask in Q&A, or share a project in Ideas.

This thread began with the 2023 cohort. The opening post was refreshed in October 2026; earlier comments keep their original context and authorship.

[abdulmunimjemal]

As for me, I got to know about AI when I was grade 9 student. Our school director was asked to send 5 students from our high school to participate in a nation-wide awareness raising seminar for high school students. I was somehow one of them. I heard about programming languages, using IT to solve problems, and their current implementation and future potential, It was much of just a talk but at the end of the day the presenter showed us applications he personally worked on - Plant Disease Detection. He brought plants and used photos from his camera to identify the healthy from the other kind, he also showed us a video of intelligent drones his team developed working on farms spraying some form of chemicals after identifying infected plants - making it all easy for those farmers. It was at that moment; I started being interested in AI :)

As for which specific application of AI I want to work on, I currently have no idea.

[arudaev]

That is really interesting. I see you are a real AI enthusiast 😄I presume you have heard of HuggingFace, but have you ever heard of Kaggle? It has all the training data you will ever need, as well as courses and research notebooks. Check it out when you have the time👍

[FaresM7]

For me I have always had interest in computer science in general and when I found this course I thought it would be cool to take part in this huge evolution of AI and to help in getting it better to serve more people in every aspect of their lives.

[arudaev]

That is really interesting. However, I am confused.... is it a course or volunteer work? It is really nice to hear that you want to create an AI to help people 👍🏼

[H8K56]

What drew you to study Artificial Intelligence?
I always liked how you could teach AI anything and it will evolve as more data is given to it, to such a point that it surpasses human limitations.

Was there a particular moment, project, or person that inspired you?
Yes, @HlexNC inspired me by working together on a project that dealt with object detection for a Hackathon.

What do you hope to achieve during our time together in this program?
I hope to grow my AI knowledge and collaborate with other members on exciting projects.

[arudaev]

😆 Bruh.... you are one of the maintainers. Even if I call you Sith Lord Malifex, you are still my padawan!

+ You ain't even part of the AI major, you are CS 🤣

[H8K56]

I just wanted to feel part of this organisation

[arudaev]

@H8K56 You are literally a maintainer 🤣 You have admin access. Just bitte help me maintain this org

[H8K56]

@HlexNC I am sorry Wilson, i will do my best

[H8K56]