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Last Modified Date on 08th October 2025
Dr Md Haseen Akhtar
Assistant Professor
haseen[at]des.iith.ac.in
Interest areas:
Healthcare Infrastructure and Services Design, (more than) Human Centered Design, Emerging Technologies in Design (XR and AI), Human Computer Interaction (HCI), and Design for Global Health
Dr. Md Haseen Akhtar completed his Ph.D. in Human Centred Design from the Department of Design, IIT Kanpur as a Prime Minister Research Fellow (PMRF). He holds a Master of Design degree in Industrial and Product Design from IIT Kanpur and a Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) degree with Gold Medal from NIT Trichy, Tamil Nadu. He has served as a Fulbright-Nehru Fellow at the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation and Department of Architecture, CED, University of California Berkeley, where he worked on computational design and emerging technologies. He taught final-year B.Arch. Architectural Design Studio, M.Arch. thesis studio, and Emerging Technologies Studio during his Fulbright fellowship at UC Berkeley. He has also taught several UG foundational design courses at NIFT Hyderabad and PG design courses at IIT Kanpur during his PMRF tenure at IIT Kanpur. Prior to joining Department of Design, IIT Hyderabad, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher (FARE Fellow) at IIT Kanpur working in HCI Domain. He is also a recipient of the BIRAC Biotechnology Ignition Grant and holds 4 patents and design copyrights for healthcare innovation.