Arshad Ahmad is currently serving as an Assistant Professor at Sohar University, Oman. He recently completed his postdoctoral research at the Institute of Software Systems Engineering, Johannes Kepler University (JKU), Linz, Austria. He holds an MS in Software Engineering from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola (BTH), Sweden (2008), and a PhD in Computer Science and Technology with a specialization in Software Engineering from the Beijing Institute of Technology, China (2018). He has held prestigious research positions at leading institutions, including the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE), Germany, and the Vienna University of Technology, Austria (2010–2014). He has served as an Associate Professor at the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan, and since October 2020, he has been affiliated as an Assistant Professor of Software Engineering and Computer Science with both the Sino-Pak Center for Artificial Intelligence and the Department of IT and Computer Science at Pak-Austria Fachhochschule: IAST, Haripur, Pakistan. Prior to this, he served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Swabi and the City University of Science and Information Technology, Peshawar (2018–2020). He has published extensively in high-impact, peer-reviewed international journals and conferences. His primary research interests include requirements engineering, text mining, opinion mining, sentiment analysis, and machine learning.