Prof. M. M. Sufyan Beg obtained his B.Tech. (Electronics) degree from the Aligarh Muslim University, India in 1992 with First Rank. 

He obtained his M.Tech. (Microelectronics) degree from IIT Kanpur, India in 1994. Thereafter, he joined the Department of Electronics Engineering, Aligarh Muslim University, India as a member of the faculty. He has been a Lecturer, a Senior Lecturer and then a Reader in the Department of Computer Engineering at the same University. While on study leave from there, he obtained his Ph.D. degree in the area of Computer Technology from IIT Delhi, India in 2004. He also visited the University of California at Berkeley as a BT Fellow from November 2005 to October 2006. He served as Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering at Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University), New Delhi from March 2007 to January 2014. Over there, he also served as the Head of the Department of Computer Engineering from February 2008 to February 2011. He also served as the Principal of Z. H. College of Engineering and Technology,  A.M.U. Aligarh, from August 2015 to November 2024. Currently, he is a Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering at the Aligarh Muslim University since January 2014.

 Prof. Beg has published two books, 29 book chapters and over 165 research papers on a wide range of topics in Web Mining and Soft Computing. He has also been an invited lecturer at many places in U.S.A., U.K., K.S.A. and India.

Prof. Beg was awarded the University Gold Medal for standing First at B.Sc. (Engg.) Examinations (all branches combined). He has also bagged twice the Best Paper Awards and the High-Quality Presentation Awards each.

Prof. Beg has served as a reviewer and has been on the board of many journals and conferences of repute. His current research interests are in the areas of Parallel and Distributed Processing, Soft Computing, Question Answering Systems, Natural Language Processing, Web Mining and Searching.