Mohammad Ashhad

Ph.D. student in the Bio-Ontology Research Group.

Biography

Mohammad Ashhad is a Ph.D. student at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), where he completed his M.S. in Bioengineering with a specialization in Bioinformatics and Machine Learning. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India, which he completed with a Gold Medal. His academic journey has taken him across leading research institutions — as a Mitacs Globalink Research Intern at Queen's University, Canada and a Visiting Research Scholar at Duke University, USA.

Research Interests

Ashhad's research interests include neurosymbolic AI, deep learning and machine learning for biomedical applications, survival analysis and applied statistics.

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.)
Computer Science and Engineering, Jamia Hamdard, India, 2024
Master of Science (M.S.)
Bioengineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia, 2026