Establishing the Advanced AI Lab was originally inspired by the speech of His Majesty King Hamad, on the significance of artificial intelligence in the digital economy, during the opening of the second session of the fifth legislative term of the Shura and Representative Councils in 2018, for developing a comprehensive national plan to deal with the requirements of the digital economy and employing artificial intelligence techniques in the productive and service sectors. The University of Bahrain is working on introducing and developing academic programs that serve the digital economy through artificial intelligence in line with the needs of the Kingdom, as the graduates of the University of Bahrain excel and lead the digital transformation in the private and government sectors.

Through a distinguished partnership between the University of Bahrain and the Benefit Bahrain Company, which is well known for initiatives employing modern technologies and innovation for developing the Bahraini economy and the financial sector, the company supported the establishment of an advanced laboratory for Artificial Intelligence and computing at the College of Information Technology, University of Bahrain; which will serve many scientific programs and research projects Including:
The PhD in Computing program

• MSc program in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
• MSc program in Big Data Science and Analytics
• Undergraduate courses in artificial intelligence and parallel processing
•  Joint research with CERN and other external partners.

This national project is comprised of multiple compute nodes and fast technology that will be used in parallel to perform machine learning and model training tasks quickly and efficiently. This equipment will be a national resource available to all researchers, students and entrepreneurs in Bahrain, especially working on AI, high performance computing, FinTech, Health Tech, and other technologies that require HPC.