Dr. Alam is an Institute Post Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kanpur, India. He work in the information theory and its applications research group of Professor Satyadev Nandakumar. Before joining IIT Kanpur, he was a Senior Project Scientist on the Technology Innovation Hub (TIH) in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) at IIT Mandi, India. He completed his Ph.D under the supervision of Dr. Satyajit Thakor from the School of Computing and Electrical Engineering, IIT Mandi in 2021. His PhD research area was Entropic Region and Network Coding. The set of all entropic points is known as the entropic region. Characterization of the entropic region leads to the solution of many important and open problems in information theory and network coding.

Before joining Ph.D, he was a Junior Research Fellow under the supervision of Dr.Syed Abbas on a National Board of Higher Mathematics (NBHM), Govet of India project. 

He received the Master of Technology (M.Tech) in Computational and Systems Biology which is taught in the School of Computational & Integrative Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India. Here, he worked on the DNA sequence of the LINEs and SINEs of Entamoeba histolytica and the Quasispecies model under the supervisions of Prof. Alok Bhattacharya and Prof. Ram Ramaswamy (now with Ashoka University and IIT Delhi respectively).

Previously, he received Master of Science (M.Sc) and B.Sc (Hons) in Mathematics from the Department of Mathematics, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aligarh, India. His M.Sc project was on the categorical study of some algebraic structures which was supervised by Prof. Syed Mahmood Ahad Zaidi.

He was a guest faculty from July 2012-Dec 2013 in the Department of Computer Science, Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi, India.