Dr. Akbar holds the following professional affiliations and roles

• Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology

• Director of the Circuits Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology

• Full member of Sigma Xi.

• Member of IEEE Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Circuits and Systems, and IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques societies.

• Chair of the Integrated Circuits Session at the 30th Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE 2022).

• Editor in chief of the RFIC group at the 31st Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE 2023).

• Reviewer for various academic journals and conferences, including IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, IEEE Access, IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters, IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, Elsevier International Journal of Electronics and Communications, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) in 2019, 2020, and 2022, IET Image Processing, Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME 2021), Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE 2022), and Scientia Iranica.