Saif Al-Shaikhli studied Biomedical Engineering at the Nahrain University in Baghdad. He received his Master dergree from the Nahrain University in June 2006.
Since 2007 he has been working as a Lecturer in Baghdad university in biomedical engineering department.
Since October 2011 he has been working toward a PhD degree at the TNT Information processing Institute 'Institut für Informationverarbeitung' at the Leibniz University of Hannover. His research interests are segmentation, tracking of medical imaging.