Omani student co-founds Ilmify, an LLM-based personalised learning platform for university students

Muscat Daily reported on 18 August that Nouf bint Abdul Hamid Al Shamli, a Sultan Qaboos University student in Oman, co-founded the AI platform Ilmify, which personalises learning for university students by adapting educational material to individual needs. The platform has moved beyond Oman through several pilot projects, and the team represented Oman at the Falling Walls competition in Berlin last year. Nouf specialises in statistics and data science, with computer science as a sub-speciality.

This is a concrete case of university students in the Gulf building an AI education product, showing that the supply of personalised learning tools is expanding from established vendors to student founders; it is a new signal for those tracking the Middle East education technology market and locally developed AI products. Two direct effects: a local AI learning platform for the university stage has emerged in a market such as Oman, and the student team must handle non-technical work including marketing, branding and budgeting. The limitation is that the report discloses no pilot schools, student numbers, usage duration or learning outcome data, so the platform's capabilities and scale cannot be independently verified. A locally developed AI personalised learning platform for the university stage has emerged in Oman and nearby markets, changing the structure of suppliers. Beyond technology, the team must handle marketing, branding, budgeting and communication with users, investors and partners.