Dr. Akif Nadeem was born in Pakistan. He received his Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan, in 2009, and his Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Electrical Engineering from North China Electric Power University in 2014. He obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2023.

Since May 2023, he has been serving as an Associate Professor in the School of Intelligent Manufacturing and Control Engineering at Qilu Institute of Technology, China. He has accumulated more than 10 years of combined industrial and academic experience.

Dr. Nadeem has authored over 10 research papers in internationally recognized journals, including IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence. He has supervised and co-supervised several undergraduate final-year projects and theses. He also serves as a reviewer for multiple prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility and International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems. In addition, he has chaired workshops and technical sessions at IEEE international conferences.

His areas of expertise include electrical hardware design, algorithm development, and programming (MATLAB, C, Python). His primary research interests encompass Electromagnetic Transient Analysis, Transmission Line Modeling, Power Systems Analysis, Signal Processing, Optimization Algorithms, Machine Learning, Uncertainty Quantification Techniques.