Prof. Dr. Ahmed Shuja Syed is currently the Executive Director of Centre for Emerging Sciences, Engineering & Technology (CESET), Islamabad, Pakistan; Advisor on the Engineering Programs to the Higher Management of International Islamic University (IIU), Islamabad, and the Principal Investigator of Islamic Development Bank’s Funded Advanced Electronics Laboratories International Project. He is also the former Dean of Faculty of Engineering & Technology at IIU, Islamabad. He is also Member Board of Governors, Indus University Karachi.

As guest scientist and visiting professor, Dr. Shuja maintained very close collaborative linkages with some of the world’s most renowned scientific facilities such as Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Department of Energy, USA; Lucent-Bell Labs, USA and Nano-electronic fabrication engineering facilities at MIT, KSU and Michigan, USA. Dr. Shuja also co-founded two companies in 2006 and 2012, which are now having presence in UK, USA and Pakistan. Higher Education Commission of Pakistan has also focused and highlighted Dr. Shuja’s contributions as an academic leader of Faculty of Engineering at International Islamic University in its official newsletter in February 2011. Dr. Shuja instituted and chaired three international conferences in Pakistan, one each in Microelectronics and Photonics (2007; Islamabad), Power Generation Systems and Renewable Energy Technologies (2010; Islamabad), and Sensing for Industries, Control, Communication, and Security Technologies (2013; Karachi). He is currently on the Editorial board of Journal of Nanosystems and Technology, Michigan, USA. With a track record of winning competitive projects funded both on national and international level and development of institutional academic infrastructure including the instructional and research laboratory facilities; Dr. Shuja has published numerous international research communications including the book chapters, indexed journal papers as well as peer-reviewed international conference proceedings.

Dr. Shuja is an active member of national S&T strategic committees/think tank and dedicated forums. He works in the broader area of Micro and Nanoelectronics/Nano-scale Semiconductor Process Engineering with a special focus on designing and fabrication of next generation electronic and photonic devices, sensors and micro-systems. Most of the work in public domain deals with the real-time applications of ion beam induced damages for applications in future electronic and photonic industry.