He received Ph.D, M.Sc and B.Sc degrees from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Minhaz was awarded a BOYSCAST fellowship by the Department of Ssience and Technology (Govt. of India) to work on nano-crystalline Silicon based 3rd generation photovoltaics at University of Trento, Italy, during 2007-08. He also received an APS Kilambi Ramavataram Fellowship from American Physical Society during 2012-13 to work on Physics Education at SUNY Buffalo. His current research interests cover the area of low dimensional silicon, carbon and their nano-composites for photonic and photovoltaic applications. Beyond mainstream research he is actively involved in developing experiments for post graduate, under graduate and school level physics teaching