Muhammad Arsam Saleem is a Senior Research Associate at the Karachi Urban Lab (KUL), a multi-disciplinary research institute based in Karachi, Pakistan. He completed his Bachelors in the Social Sciences and Liberal Arts with a focus on Media Sciences from the Institute of Business Administration (IBA), and received a Fulbright Scholarship to pursue a Masters in City and Regional Planning, with a specialisation in Environment and Health Planning, from The Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.

His research interests include urban environmental planning and design, with an emphasis on climate resilience, conflict assessment, social flows, and interpersonal relationships.