Md. Shad Akhtar completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Patna in 2019. He received his M.Tech from IIT (ISM), Dhanbad in 2014, and BEng from JMI, New Delhi, in 2009. He also has industry experience of more than two years with HCL Technologies Ltd. He has published research papers in various peer-reviewed conferences and journals of international repute. He has also served as the program committee member and reviewer for numerous international conferences and journals.

His main areas of research are Sentiment and Emotion Analysis in the Natural Language Processing domain. Currently, his area of interest focuses on Dialog Management and Multimodal Analysis.