Prof. Ahmed did his M.Sc.& M.Phil from A.M.U.Aligarh and Ph.D. from the University of Roorkee (Presently, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee). He has served the Department of Statistics, at the University of Kashmir from March 1988 to April 2014. Prof. Ahmed is the founder Head, of the Department of Statistics, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, and functioned as the Dean of, the Faculty of Physical & Material Sciences. He has been a Member of the University Council, Chairman of, the Board of Studies in Statistics, and a member of various Academic Bodies, at the University of Kashmir, Srinagar, and Aligarh Muslim University. He has also served as a Professor of Statistics at the Qassim University, Saudi Arabia for two and a half years (Dec.2008 to June 2011). He has guided eighteen Ph.D. and fifteen M.Phil scholars and published more than 100 research papers in international and national Journals. Prof. Ahmed has organized three International Conferences, four Refresher Courses, and nine  Workshops and delivered more than 75 extension lectures in Academic Staff Colleges and the Departments of several Universities across the country on Research Methodology, Optimization, and Statistics Using Software Packages (SPSS and MINITAB). He served the Asian Institute of Technology Pathumthani, Bangkok, Thailand under the MHRD Programme, from Aug.-Dec.-2016 as a Visiting Professor. He is a member of, the Visiting Team of the National Council of Evaluation of Teachers, Scientific Standing Committee, (SAC) ICMR, Jabalpur,  Executive Committee Member, Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, Rajouri and Vice President of Indian Society for Probability and Statistics (ISPS)