Mirza A. K. Baig was born in Bihar, India. He received the B.Sc. degree in Statistics Honors from Aligarh Muslim University, India in 1983. He has received Masters, M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Statistics from Aligarh Muslim University, India in the years 1985, 1987 and 1995 respectively. His major field of study is Information Theory and Applied Probability.
He has a work experience of 28 years. He was a gold medalist both in graduation and post-graduation. He has guided 7 Ph. D. and 12 M.Phil. scholars till date. He has served as head of the Department of Statistics, University of Kashmir, India, 190006. His research interests include information theory, fuzzy measures, information reliability. He has published more than 70 research papers till date. Presently, he is working as Head & Professor in the Department of Statistics, University of Kashmir, India, 190006.