MOHAMMED ALTAF AHMED was born in India. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering from GITAM University, Vishakhapatnam, India, for the thesis entitled " Design of Built-in Self-Test Controller using March Algorithm for Fault Diagnosis in Embedded Memories" in the year 2018. He received the Best Thesis Award and Gold Medal for his Ph.D. He received his Bachelor's in Engineering (Electronics & Communications) in 2000 from Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University Nanded, India. He completed his Master's in Engineering and Technology with a specialization in Embedded Systems in 2008 from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad, India. He joined the College of Computer Engineering and Sciences, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University (PSAU), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in September 2012, as a Lecturer in the Computer Engineering Department. He has also worked in the Quality & Development Unit, Computer engineering department. He has successfully implemented seven research grant projects in the same area and published Research Articles in leading academic journals. He is presently focusing his research on VLSI Design and Embedded Systems.