Mahbub Akhter did his PhD in Microelectronics at the National Microelectronics Research Centre (NMRC) presently known as the Tyndall National Institute in University College Cork in 2003. He did his M.Sc.(microelectronics) from the National University of Malaysia in 1998. He finished his B.Sc. in EEE in 1995 from BIT Rajshahi, Bangladesh.