Khalil is a Student Assistant in the Climate Policy Team, supporting the development of the data platform. This involves migrating projects such as the Climate Action Tracker, contributing to the continuous evolution and maintenance of the CAT project, applying software project management principles to the existing and new developed projects, and deploying AI-powered coding agents to support developers working across different Climate Analytics teams.
Before joining Climate Analytics, Khalil worked as a research assistant at the Fraunhofer FIT Institute in the Data Science and AI team, where he was involved as a Java backend developer. His work focused on semantic web technologies, graph databases, microservices using JAVA Spring Boot, and LLM-based agent systems. Khalil also contributed to the GAIA-X project, which aims to establish secure and federated data infrastructures to ensure data sovereignty in Europe.
Khalil holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Software Systems Engineering at RWTH Aachen University, Germany. For his master’s thesis, he developed a multi-agent LLM system using the AutoGen framework to translate natural language queries into Cypher query language.