Dr. Abu Sadat Muhammad Sayem is the principal investigator of the UKRI project "Digital Fashion Network (2023-24)". He has been working in the field of digital fashion since 2004 and has been chairing the annual event "Digital Fashion Innovation Symposium" since 2020. His ongoing research at the Manchester Metropolitan University covers the areas of digital prototyping, sustainable materials and process innovation, and smart garments. He obtained a PhD from the University of Manchester, an MSc. from the Technische Universität Dresden and a BSc. from the University of Dhaka. In the past, Dr. Sayem worked as an Associate Professor in the Textile Department and as the Head of the Centre of Scientific Research and Innovation of the Southeast University, Bangladesh. He is a member of the UKRI Talent Peer Review College, a fellow and trustee of the Textile Institute, a fellow of the Higher Education Academy (Advance HE, UK) as well as an alumnus of the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, UK and the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), Germany.