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ChatUB - Local AI Academic Assistant

Every academic answer, grounded in the real regulations.

A local AI academic assistant for University of Bisha students, designed to answer questions based on official academic regulations, procedures, and documents.

Evidence

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Problem

University students often struggle to access accurate academic information because regulations, procedures, and announcements are distributed across multiple sources. Answers may differ depending on who students ask, while students need fast, clear, and reliable guidance.

Solution

ChatUB was designed as a local AI academic assistant for University of Bisha students. Instead of giving generic answers, it uses official university academic content to provide context-aware responses aligned with real regulations and procedures.

My Role

Project Leader

Impact

ChatUB demonstrated how AI can support university students when it is designed around context, privacy, and trusted information sources.

My role

Project Leader

Responsibilities focused on shaping the solution, connecting technical choices to user needs, and helping move the idea into a coherent working concept.

Defined the product vision and problem scope
Led the team throughout the graduation project
Made the strategic decision to build ChatUB as a local AI system
Focused on privacy, reliability, and future institutional adoption
Guided the design of the AI behavior and content structure
Balanced accuracy, simplicity, scalability, and contextual understanding

Technical architecture

How the solution was structured

Each case study is grounded in a practical technical approach, from local AI knowledge design to cloud-native analysis and behavioral analytics.

Source

Student question

01
Processing

NLP intent

02
Intelligence

Retrieve official docs

03
Experience

Grounded answer

04

Engineering notes

NLP to understand student questions
LLM-based response generation
Intelligent search over official academic content
Local AI system approach to improve privacy and reliability
Structured knowledge based on University of Bisha academic documents

Decisions

The calls that shaped it

The choices that mattered most — and the thinking behind each one.

01

Local-first, not cloud

I made the call to run ChatUB as a local AI system so student data and university content stay on-prem. Privacy and institutional trust mattered more than the convenience of a hosted model.

02

Grounded in official documents

Answers are generated from the university's real regulations and procedures — not generic knowledge — so a student gets the same reliable guidance no matter who they ask.

Key features

What the project enables

Academic question answering
Context-aware responses
University-specific knowledge
Privacy-conscious local architecture
Simple student-friendly interface

Impact

Applied value

ChatUB demonstrated how AI can support university students when it is designed around context, privacy, and trusted information sources.

Real innovation starts when technology respects context, privacy, and real human needs.

Inside the product

A look at how it works

A handcrafted preview of the experience — drawn to show the idea, not a stock screenshot.

ChatUBUniversity of Bisha

Local-first

Runs on-prem for data privacy

Project Lead

Led the graduation team

Official sources

Grounded, not generic answers

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