Mohsin is a Ph.D. Sociology (Development Studies) graduate from the College of Humanities and Development Studies, CAU China. He is also a Development Policy Global Ambassador Scholar at the KDI School of Public Policy & Management in South Korea. Throughout his career, he has worked with government, universities, and non-profit organizations, including KOICA M/O Foreign Affairs, DFID, USAID, and CIVICUS-World Alliance for Citizen Participation across Asia and Africa, to implement large-scale development aid projects and evaluate the impact of donor funding aid programs. He has been also listed 2024 Marquis Who's Who honored appearance for his leadership role in development cooperation.

His expertise lies in examining the intersectionality of socioeconomic, environmental, and racial inequality, and behavioral economics, and developing community-led advocacy toolkits, policies, and programs to address them. In his first doctoral thesis, he not only quantified food insecurity amidst climate change and conflict but also examined narratives of climate and conflict-affected communities and their vulnerabilities towards food insecurity, producing meaningful insights into understanding the determinants of food insecurity. At Northeastern University, he was part of a team that worked on an innovative tool called Fora.ai that brings communities together to reshape how they engage and collaborate on climate and social justice and reduce urban gentrification and climate vulnerabilities of large-scale development projects in the United States. As RA, he worked on California's Agpass program evaluation and transcribed key stakeholder interviews to understand community response toward the Agpass program, and its significance for disaster resilience.

In his current research projects centered on spatial equity, community resilience, and climate justice, he uses Machine learning and advanced geospatial approaches to ascertain the impact of climate change on poverty; and loss and damage analysis of 2022 flooding on food insecurity/crop in Pakistan. Using large-scale administrative data, he built a Spatial representative Index to drive social infrastructure planning within the spatial development framework of major urban hubs in Pakistan. He is also conducting a spatiotemporal analysis of UHI and Urban land use cover change, developed a social infrastructure accessibility index and its impact on health and social vulnerability across different regions in Pakistan.

He has extensive experience in using R, Gephi, SPSS, STATA, ArcGIS pro, and qualitative research tools to combine experimental and primary datasets. He has published several academic papers on topics such as social and climate vulnerability of households, institutional failure in Burundi, failed hydro-politics in Pakistan, multidimensional poverty in Nigeria and Pakistan, Impact evaluation of development programs in alleviating poverty and women empowerment, transnational land grabbing, foreign land acquisition and its impact on livelihood and the local environment in Pakistan, the role of government and community organizations in rural development in Pakistan, Food system resilience in the city of Boston, and racial and ethnic health disparities among the US population.

In addition to PhD, he holds a master's degree in Development Policy (Development Economics), an MPhil in Rural Development, and a BSc. (Hons) in Agriculture, and won various prestigious scholarship awards from NUMUN Netherland, British Council, Asia-Europe Foundation, KDI School, and Beijing Government, and has extensive training in research and publication. Additionally, at Northeastern, he assisted in Sustainability, Race, and Environmental Justice Open classroom, and was adjunct Faculty at the Department of Governance and Public Policy at NUML Islamabad, and was named Top 3 in a Health-innovation and racial justice policy hackathon at MIT in October 2021, Shortlisted for Princeton University's START Entrepreneurship Program 2023, named Associate Fellow of Commonwealth Society, Asia-Europe Foundation, and appeared on various media outlets such as Diplo Foundation Switzerland, EditorialTimes, DaySpring, Technology Times, KOICA Ministry of Foreign Affairs, CIVICUS, and KDI School.