Mr. Umar is engaged in research and development pertaining to Future technologies in Precesion Education, Multimodal Data and Learning Analytics, Information Visualization. Besides, he has been actively involved with EU funded research projects and communities. He is also a member of COST Actoin CA20115 entitled 'European Network on International Student Mobility: Connecting Research and Practice (ENIS)' where he is enganged as the stakeholder advisor to the Working Group (WG 01). He is also an active member of the COST Action CA21107 - Work inequalities in later life redefined by digitalization (DIGI-net) and is currently the Principal Investigator (PI) of a small scale study on Technostress in Academia, which is supported by the Action.