Shakeel Akram (M’17) was born in Pakistan in 1987, He received his Master degree in electrical engineering from Chongqing University, Chongqing, China in 2012 and two Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Southwest Jiaotong University Chengdu China in 2018 and Institut d’Electronique et des Systèmes (IES), University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France in 2020. Currently, he is working as research associate in Sichuan University, Chengdu, China and University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France. His major research area includes electrical characterizations and simulation of high voltage insulating materials, deposition of thin films, HVDC cables, PWM inverter fed motors and polymer-based nanocomposites, nanodielectrics. In high voltage testing his specialty is to develop space charge diagnostic tools (PEA, TSM, PVDF sensor) and pulse power PD testing techniques (UHF).