Dr. Junaid Qadir received his PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia. His PhD thesis was on the research topic of "Improving broadcast performance in multi-radio multi-channel multi-rate wireless mesh networks"''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''.

Currently, he is the director of the Cognet lab which operates under the PTCL, Cisco, NUST IP technology center of excellence situated at SEECS, NUST.

Before his PhD studies, he worked actively in the networking industry for around 4 years where he gained hands-on experience working on the largest data networks in the country. Amongst other places, he worked at PTCL’s Pakistan Internet Exchange (PIE) and at the national data networks of National Telecommunication Corporation (NTC).