Taha holds a BE in Mechatronics Engineering from the National University of Science and Technology, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, and an M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering from the National University of Science and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan. He enrolled at Aalborg University as a Marie Skłodowska Curie FRESCO PhD student under the supervision of Winnie Jensen and co-supervision of Thomas Gomes Nørgaard dos Santos Nielsen as a part of the Neural Engineering and Neurophysiology group at the Department of Health Science and Technology (HST).

As a researcher, Taha has designed and fabricated upper limb prostheses and processed electromyography signals recorded from the anterior tibialis muscle after the chiropractic intervention during his undergraduate and master's programs, respectively. He is experienced in Computer-Aided Drawing (CAD), 3D printing, design, structural analysis of exoskeletons and prostheses, bio-signal processing.

The PhD program allowed Taha to develop his skills as a neuroscientist. He has a license to work with animals (EU Function ABD). He has a firm grip on neurosurgery and neurophysiological signal processing. Apart from cortical signal processing, Taha has been involved in teaching and supervising projects linked to the brain-computer interface and designing and fabricating a low-cost 3D-printed exoskeleton for stroke rehabilitation in collaboration with Mads Rovsing Jochumsen.

Taha's project focused on assessing intracortical signals taken from a large animal (i.e. a pig) pain model. The project involved applying high-frequency peripheral stimulation (HFS) to the ulnar nerve to induce spinal long-term potentiation (LTP)-like plasticity. Changes in the primary somatosensory cortex (S1) were recorded using a 16-channel microelectrode array (MEA) and a 32 channel µECoG. The objective of this study was to understand cortical pain processing mechanisms in S1 based on neural information extracted from the MEA and the µECoG.

The project has led to a publication in IBRO Neuroscience Reports Journal and two more publications currently under review. Taha's work substantiated the use of Danish Landrace pigs as translational models of pain. The work done in this project has an expanded scope of exploring changes in other brain areas, such as the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC). It also explores the capacity to use µECoG electrodes interchangeably with MEA, which can prove beneficial for studying chronic pain studies using pigs.

Taha successfully defended his PhD on 11 February 2022.