Dr Khan is a Senior Scientist at the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). He holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford, where he also conducted postdoctoral research with Professor Min Chen.

He specialises in data-driven software infrastructure across diverse domains—nuclear fusion, pandemic response, radio astronomy, seismology, and security intelligence.

During the UK's COVID-19 response, he designed RAMPVIS, a pandemic visualization infrastructure that earned him the Royal Society's RAMP Early Career Investigator Award. He built a real-time data-streaming and signal-display system for the Square Kilometre Array, the world's largest radio telescope, and led the design of FAIR-MAST—a first-of-its-kind open data platform for UKAEA's nuclear fusion diagnostics that enables machine learning and visual analytics on tokamak data. He also led development of VBAS for seismological data visualization and VIS4ML visualisation for machine learning. As a user liaison for DAFNI (UK National Data Infrastructure), he led data integration with CEDA (Centre for Environmental Data Analysis) to streamline researcher access to national environmental modeling resources.

With prior industry experience at Oracle and ABB, he bridges research with scalable, real-world impact. His interests span Software Infrastructure, Visual Analytics, and Applied Machine Learning, with publications in IEEE TSC, IEEE TVCG, IEEE TPS, MLST, Phil. Trans. A, and IEEE VIS.