Ajnas Muhammed is a postdoctoral researcher in the Institute of Systems and Robotics (ISR) at the University of Coimbra. His primary areas of interest in research are Visual Cryptography, Fingerprint Template Protection, Image Security, Image Processing, and Computer Vision.

Ajnas Muhammed received his doctorate in 2023 from Department of Computer Science and Engineering at National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK) Surathkal, India. He received his bachelor's degree (B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering) in 2013 from Government Engineering College, Idukki, Kerala, India, and his master's degree (M.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering (Information Security)) in 2016 from National Institute of Technology (NIT) Rourkela, Orissa, India. He is currently working as a researcher on the FACING-2 project.