Senay Kafkas holds a PhD in computer engineering and is specialized on biomedical text mining. She works as a research scientist in Computational Bioscience Research Center at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. Her research focuses on development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) based methods for mining health relevant information and supporting disease diagnostic. Before joining KAUST, Senay worked as a text mining specialist at the European Bioinformatics Institute, near Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Her role involved managing R&D projects linked to the Europe PMC literature database and the industry. Senay has over 40 publications in the area of biomedical data mining.