Imran Ashraf secured the Top Talent scholarship from TU Delft for Master studies in Embedded Systems. In October 2011, he joined the Computer Engineering Lab, TU Delft, The Netherlands, to pursue his Doctoral Research under the supervision of Prof. dr. Koen Bertels. During his PhD, Imran’s research focused on advanced profiling, code parallelization, communication driven mapping of applications on multi-core platforms. After successfully defending his PhD in 2016, Imran started as post-doctoral researcher on an Intel funded project on quantum computing research. As a post-doctoral researcher, Imran worked on various aspects of software stack especially compilation and simulation. In September 2018, Imran joined HITEC University, Taxila, as Assistant Professor in Computer Engineering Department. His research focuses on Deep Learning, Quantum Machine Learning, and Accelerator-based computing.