Dr. Md. Motaharul Islam
Professor, Dept. of CSE
ROOM: 418 (B)
PABX: 3108
Email: motaharul@cse.uiu.ac.bd
Biography
Prof. Dr. Md. Motaharul Islam has been working as a Director of Masters in Computer Science and Engineering (MSCSE) Program. Dr. Islam joined United International University (UIU) as a Full Professor, in the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering in January 2020. Before joining UIU, he had been serving as an Associate Professor in the same Department of Brac University (BracU). He had also served as an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Computer Science under the Faculty of Computer and Information Systems at Islamic University of Madinah (IUM), Saudi Arabia. Before travelling to IUM, he had been working as an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Engineering Department of Islamic University of Technology (IUT), OIC, Gazipur, Bangladesh. He has been awarded PhD in Computer Engineering from Kyung Hee University, South Korea in the field of Smart Internet of Things (IoT) in 2013. Dr. Motahar had also served as the Chief Technical Officer of BERNET (Currently BdREN) of University Grants Commission of Bangladesh (UGC). As the community service, he has been working as a Director (Communications) for the Bangladesh Local Chapter of International Network for Outcome based Education (IN4OBE) founded by the father of OBE Prof. Dr. William Spady. He has also been serving as the editorial board member and reviewer of different international journals. He has published around 100 research articles in reputed international journals and conferences. His research interest includes Smart IoT, NB-IoT, IP-WSN, Cloud Computing, Network Virtualization, Edge Intelligence, Machine Learning etc. For the last 7 years, Dr. Motahar had been actively engaged in outcome based education (OBE) for ABET and BAETE. He led the OBE Committee, Curriculum Committee at UIU and BracU and supervised the Cloud Computing Research Lab at BracU. He also served as the adviser of IEEE CS students chapters in different universities.
Education
MS-PhD in Computer EngineeringKyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea.
Degree Awarded: 2013. |
B. Sc. in Computer Science and Information Technology (CIT)Islamic University of Technology (IUT)
Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Gazipur, Bangladesh. Degree Awarded: 2002. |
Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC)Rajshahi College, Rajshahi, Bangladesh.
Degree Awarded: 1996. |
Secondary School Certificate (SSC)Pabna Zilla School, Pabna, Bangladesh.
Degree Awarded: 1994. |
Experiences
ProfessorService Period: January 2020 to –
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) School of Science and Engineering United International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. |
Associate ProfessorService Period: Sep. 2018 to January 2020
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) School of Engineering and Computer Science BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. |
Assistant ProfessorService Period: December 2016 to August 2018
Dept. of Computer Science (CS) Faculty of Computer and Information Systems (FCIS) Islamic University of Madinah, AlMadinah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. |
Assistant ProfessorService Period: December 2013 to December 2016
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Islamic University of Technology (IUT) Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Gazipur, Bangladesh. |
Research AssistantService Period: September 2009 to August 2013
Intelligent Cloud and Security Laboratory (ICNS Lab) Dept. of Computer Engineering Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea. |
Senior LecturerService Period: January 2006 to August 2009
Institute of Scientific Instrumentation (ISI) University Grants Commission of Bangladesh (UGC) Dhaka, Bangladesh. |
Senior LecturerService Period: February 2005 to December 2005
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering Faculty of Science and Engineering Green University of Bangladesh Dhaka, Bangladesh |
LecturerService Period: September 2003 to January 2005
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering Uttara University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. |
Awards and Achievements
Recipient of Brain Korea-21 (BK-21) Scholarship program sponsored by the Govt. of the Republic of Korea for IT International Students during MS-PhD program.Period: September 2009 – August 2013. |
President Scholarship for supporting Tuition Fees in Kyung Hee University, South Korea.Period: September 2009 – August 2013. |
Best researcher award from Intelligent Cloud and Network Security (ICNS) Lab, Kyung Hee University, South Korea, 2012. |
Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Scholarship in undergraduate study at IUT, BangladeshPeriod: 1999-2002. |
Bangladesh Govt. Scholarship for Under Graduate Study, Bangladesh. Period: 1997-2000. |
Bangladesh Govt. Scholarship in Secondary School CertificatePeriod: 1995-1996. |
Junior Scholarship from Govt. of BangladeshPeriod: 1993-1994. |
Research Interests
Smart Internet of Things |
IP-based Wireless Sensor Network (IP-WSN) |
Routing Protocol design in IP-WSN |
Virtualization in IP-WSN/IoT |
Cloud Computing |
Edge Computing |
Future Internet |