Dr. Akhtar Nawaz Khan received his BSc (Hons) degree in electrical engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan, in 2006. He then received his MEng and DEng degrees, both in communications from the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, in 2009 and 2013, respectively. He is currently working as an assistant professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, UET Peshawar, Jalozai campus, since 2015. He has also worked as an international internship scholar in the Fukuda Laboratory, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan, on the topic of large-scale simulation for internet topology analysis. His research interests include the design and analysis of optical networks, network algorithms, network routing, elastic optical networks, spectrum allocation in optical networks, and network resource optimization problems.