Imran Ahmad is a PhD student at MJIIT, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. Currently working on the treatment of restaurant wastewater containing FOG using microalgae. Ahmad specializes in the anaerobic treatment of industrial wastewaters, especially landfill leachate. He has published his work in peer reviewed journals, book chapters, attended and presented in many International conferences. Ahmad is also working in the editing of book to be published by Springer, Nature. Ahmad received best presentation award in 4 International conferences. He received Algae Industry Incubation Consortium (AIIC), Japan grants award and My Membrane award, Malaysia in 2021. He was also the recipient of Young Scholars grant awarded by School of Post Graduate Studies, UTM. Ahmad have teaching experience of 8 years in AICTE approved Engineering Colleges in India. He is having student membership for International Society for applied Phycology (ISAP), International Water Association (IWA), Northeast Algal Society (NEAS), Ecological Society of America (ESA), British Phycological Society, and Northeast Algal Society (NEAS).