Profiles

Sakhaa Alsaedi is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), under the supervision of Prof. Xin Gao and Prof. Takashi Gojobori. She received her bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Taibah University in 2018 and her master’s degree in Computer Science from KAUST in 2020. She is the founder of the Medvation startup company, inventing educational kits that teach children concepts of robotics and Machine Learning (ML) in fun ways. She worked as a product developer at the Namma Al-Munawara company, Madinah.

Sakhaa's research focuses on developing principled computational frameworks for causal reasoning in medical digital twin systems by integrating multimodal biomedical data. More broadly, her work includes multi-omics data integration, causal biomedical knowledge graph construction, causal reasoning framework development, and genetic risk factor analysis. She aims to develop computational approaches that advance the understanding of complex biological systems and genetic risk factors, ultimately supporting precision medicine and broader data-driven discoveries in biomedicine.