Dr Jahanzeb Akhtar is a Lecturer in Control Engineering at Glasgow Caledonian University. He received his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering, specialising in Control Engineering, from City University London, followed by a PhD in Electrical Engineering (Advanced Control Systems) from Brunel University London.
His research has involved the development and application of advanced nonlinear estimation, particle tracking, scientific computing, control and instrumentation, with contributions to the CMS experiment at CERN and the Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment (MICE) at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.
Before joining GCU, he held academic and research positions at institutions in the UK and internationally, including a Research Fellowship at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, where he contributed to the ANUBIS experiment through detector instrumentation, data acquisition and tracking software development. ANUBIS is designed to search for long-lived particles above the ATLAS detector at CERN, probing physics beyond the Standard Model and potentially providing new insights into fundamental questions such as the nature of dark matter.
His current research focuses on nonlinear state estimation, subatomic particle tracking and reconstruction, intelligent sensing, trigger and data acquisition (TDAQ), and scientific computing. He is currently collaborating with the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), on advanced track-reconstruction methodologies for the Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC), with particular interest in accurate, robust and computationally efficient reconstruction and its potential application to future online and high-level trigger environments. This research aims to improve the reconstruction and interpretation of particle interactions, contributing to the broader effort to understand the fundamental constituents and processes of the universe.