Aftab Hossain studied in Notre Dame College and graduated with a BSc in EEE from BUET in 2001. At the end of his 5 years tenure in AKTEL (currently Robi) he started MBA in IBA, Dhaka University in 2007.

However, later in 2007 he availed the opportunity to study Radio Engineering in Helsinki University of Technology (currently known as Aalto University) where he finished his MSc with distinction in 2009.

After obtaining his doctoral degree from the same university in 2016, he worked at KTH Royal institute of Technology as a postdoctoral fellow for a year. He Co-founded Olwel in 2016 and has been working full time for Olwel since 2017.