Dr. Afzal has been working with URDU IT Academy as an Academia consultant since 2019. Dr Tanvir received his PhD degree with the highest distinction in Computer Science from the Graz University of Technology, Austria, secured Gold medal in his M.Sc Computer Science from Quiad-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan. He has been associated with academia and industry at various levels for the last 20 years, and currently he is serving as Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Namal Institute Mianwali. Previously, he has served Capital University of Science and Technology, Islamabad as Professor/Associate Professor/ Assistant Professor of CS. Furthermore, he has served NESCOM, COMSATS University Islamabad, and JinTech Islamabad. He is also serving as editor-in-chief for reputed impact factor journal known as: Journal of Universal Computer Science. Dr. Afzal authored more than 120 research papers including 50 published papers in impact factor leading journals in the field of Data Science, Information retrieval and visualization, Semantics, Digital Libraries and Scientometrics. He has authored two books and has edited two books in Computer Science. His cumulative impact factor is 101+, with citations over 725 . He played pivotal role in making collaborations between MAJU-JUCS, MAJU-IICM, and TUG-UNIMAS. He served as PhD symposium chair, session chair, finance chair, committee member, and editor of several IEEE, ACM, Springer, Elsevier international conferences and journals. Dr. Afzal conducted more than 100 curricular, co-curricular, and extra-curricular activities in the last 5 years including seminars, workshops, national competitions (ExcITeCup) and invited international and national speakers from Google, Oracle, IICM, IFIS, SEGA Europe etc. Under his supervision, more than 60 post grad students (MS and PhD) have defended their research theses successfully and a number of PhD and MS students are pursuing their research with him.