| Biography |
I’m 17 and I don’t know how to pick one thing. I’ve tried. Right now I’m a Research Intern at KAUST, building IAS-MD: a TB diagnostic that runs a 45-minute CRISPR assay with AI-driven patient triage and reagents stable for a year at 37°C. No cold chain. No specialized lab. Patent filed, fundraising ongoing. Before that: three years in national science olympiads, Ibdaa nominee ×4, Exceptionally Talented category, Silver Medal at ITEX 2025. Last year I founded Maw’il, a youth nonprofit organizing the next generation of wildlife and vet scientists across Saudi Arabia. I wrote the governance docs, ran the funding proposals, and kept it running when it was just me and a lot of open browser tabs. I also built MawhibaSpark’s entire digital infrastructure from nothing. Website, databases, analytics, five social platforms, one coherent brand. Nobody talks about how much of that work is just keeping things from quietly breaking. I found out the hard way. I write. I design. I research. I build things. University is coming. Most of what I actually know came from doing things outside school, and I don’t expect that to stop.
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