Dr. A.K.M. Azad Shah is a Professor in the Department of Fisheries Technology at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Bangladesh. He obtained his B.Sc. (Hons.) in Fisheries and M.S. in Aquaculture from Bangladesh Agricultural University, Bangladesh. He successfully completed his M.Sc. and PhD in Marine Life Science from Hokkaido University, Japan and won the JSPS invitation fellowship (Long-term) for post-doctoral research at Hokkaido University, Japan. Dr. Shah has a number of publications (appearing in peer reviewed journals such as Food Chemistry, Journal of Food Science, Fishes, Journal of Oleo Science, Food Science and Technology Research, Aquaculture Research, Asian Fisheries Science, and Journal of Applied Aquaculture), patent, paper presentations and scholarships in his tenure of work done for the scientific community. He is quite experienced and has undergone a number of training programs, supervised them and is an active reviewer to some of the renowned journals. He holds membership in quite number of professional societies. His current research focuses on lipid biotechnology, functional food, waste utilization chemistry, flavor chemistry, fishery product technology and fish nutrition.