Dr. Khuram Shahzad is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the IRCBM Department at COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI), Lahore campus, since October 2024. Prior to that, he was working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biosciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Main campus.

Dr. Shahzad earned his PhD in Informatics degree from the Illinois Informatics Institute at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, specializing in high-throughput sequencing data mining and analysis techniques. After completing his studies, he joined the Department of Biosciences at CUI, Islamabad campus as an Assistant Professor.

Dr. Shahzad has supervised numerous research students in the fields of RNA sequencing, genomics and proteomics data analysis, population genetics, database development, and machine learning projects.