Mohammad Asjad is currently an Professor with the Discipline of Mechanical Engineering at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He is associated with Industrial Engineering Research Group of the Department, since 10th January, 2011. He graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Z.H.C.E.T (AMU, Aligarh) and later did his Masters in Industrial and Production Engineering from Z.H.C.E.T (AMU, Aligarh) and securing first position in both of them. Subsequently, he completed his Ph.D. in the area of Maintenance engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) under the supervision of Prof. O.P. Gandhi and Prof. M. S. Kulkarni. He also receipts the scholarships during Master and Research at A.M.U and IIT Delhi, respectively. His research interests are: Strategic Asset Management, Reliability Engineering, Maintenance Management, Manufacturing Operations Planning, Life Cycle Costing, Soft computing and Applied Artificial Intelligence. He has published several research articles at various national and international journals and conferences of repute. He is also on the panel of Editorial board and reviewer for various reputed international journals and conferences.