In 2015, he obtained his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the School of Quantitative Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia. Dr. Assad received the best paper award at the Proceedings of the 1st Innovation and Analytics Conference and Exhibition, at University Utara Malaysia. He published several academic papers with the topic of topology in prestige conferences and international journals which indexed ISI and Scopus. (See his Google Scholar).