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Dr. Imran M. Saied is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Edinburgh, currently working in the Advanced Care Research Centre. He obtained the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, in 2009, M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from California State University-Fullerton, Fullerton, CA, USA, in 2011, and Ph.D. degree with the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, in 2021, where he focuses his research on investigating the use of RF and microwaves for monitoring and detecting neurodegenerative diseases.

He has an extensive global research experience spanning across the USA, India, and the U.A.E. Prior to beginning his Ph.D., he worked as a Research Assistant with the Petroleum Institute (now Khalifa University) in Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. from 2013 to 2017. He worked on developing several tomography and spectroscopy systems for real-time oil and gas pipeline monitoring systems. In particular, he focused on THz spectroscopy, ECT/ECAT tomography, and development of sensors and imaging algorithms for these systems. The results from his research experience has been recognised and published in several refereed journals and presented at conferences in IEEE and SPE.