ABDURRAHMAN J. SHAIKH received his B.E. (electrical engineering) in 2006 and M.E. (telecoms) in 2008, both from NED University of Engineering and Technology (NEDUET), Karachi, Pakistan. In 2019, he received his PhD degree, specializing in device modelling and characterization from Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia. His doctoral research centered on design and optimization of CMOS-compatible low-loss high speed optical modulators. He is currently working as Assistant Professor in the department of electrical engineering at NEDUET, Pakistan. Prior to this, he was working as a Lecturer in the same department before he was promoted to his current position. He is also the Co-Principal Investigator at Haptics, Human Robotics, and Condition Monitoring Lab, a constituent lab under the umbrella of National Center of Robotics & Automation, Pakistan. During his stay at Universiti Sains Malaysia, he also worked as Research Assistant, at the Collaborative microElectronic Design Excellence Centre, Malaysia. His research interests include design and optimization of optical sensors & actuators, integrated sensors fabrication processes, group IV – photonics, photonic integrated circuits and STEM robotics. Dr. Shaikh is a lifetime member of both the Pakistan Engineering Council and Institution of Engineers Pakistan. He received many scholastic awards including SPIE Optics and Photonics Scholarship 2013 in recognition to his potential contributions to the field of optics & photonics.