Dr. Ilyas has a doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering with a major focus on biomedical control systems. He has six years of experience in academia, industry, and research & development organizations. His research interests include applying modern control strategies, including sliding mode control, fuzzy logic control, and backstepping control algorithms in biomedical system design and development. He has recently worked with Pakistan Aeronautical Complex at Project AZM on system engineering and design of AESA Radar and the fifth-generation fighter aircraft navigation system. He has publications in international high-impact journals and maintains an h-index of six