Vice-Chancellor

Prof. Dr. Saiful Islam is currently the Vice-Chancellor of American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB) since 23 May 2024.

Prior to this appointment, he was the Vice Chancellor of Dhaka International University, Starkul, Badda, Dhaka, during 7 February - 22 May 2024.

During 22 June 2016 to 25 June 2020, Prof. Dr. Saiful Islam worked as the Vice-Chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) for the full term of 4 years.

During 26 August 2013 to 22 June 2016, he worked as the Pro-Vice Chancellor of Primeasia University, Banani, Dhaka, Bangladesh for a period of 2 years 9 months on leave from BUET.

Prof. Islam obtained his BScEng in Electrical Engineering degree from BUET in 1975, obtained First Class with Honours marks and stood First in order of merit. He obtained MScEng in Electrical Engineering in 1977 from BUET and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Cambridge University, UK in 1986.

Prof. Islam received the "Junior Group Academy Award 1988" of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences (BAS) for contribution in research in the field of Microwave Engineering. This award was jointly given by the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences Dhaka, Third World Academy of Science (Italy) and British Council Dhaka. The award comprised a gold medal, cash prize of taka 10,000 and books worth 150 pound sterling from the British Council.

He received a prize for topping the list (1st class 1st position) of the Electrical Engineering Department of BUET in 1975. The prize was given during the convocation and prize giving ceremony of BUET held in November 1976.

With a strong academic background, Prof. Islam started his career as a Lecturer of Electrical Engineering in BUET in 1975, became an Assistant Professor in 1978, Associate Professor in 1986 and later, became Professor of Electrical & Electronic Engineering department in 1988.

Professor Saiful Islam is a Life Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Bangladesh (IEB), a Life Fellow of Bangladesh Computer Society, He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET) UK and a Chartered Engineer (CEng) of the Engineering Council, UK.

He is a Fellow of Cambridge Commonwealth Society, Cambridge, UK, a Senior Member of IEEE SrMIEEE (USA). He is a former Vice President of Bangladesh Electronics Society. Professor Islam is a Life member of Caius Club of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK.

During 1991-93, Professor Saiful Islam was the Head of the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department of BUET and during 1995-97 he was the Dean of the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Faculty. During this period, he also worked twice as the Chairman of the BUET Admission Committee for two consecutive years. He was also the Head of the Computer Science and Engineering Department of BUET during 1996.

In 1991, Professor Islam was with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan with the status of a Visiting Professor and as a Matsumae International Foundation Fellow for a period of 3 months.

During 1999-2000, he was a Visiting Professor of Islamic Institute of Technology (now IUT), Gazipur for one year (on sabbatical leave from BUET).

During 2002-2006 he was the first Dean of Engineering Faculty of American International University- Bangladesh (AIUB), Banani, Dhaka and put significant contribution in building the Engineering Faculty. He has shown significant success in building and helping in growing private Universities. Thus, he has developed significant skill in academic administration and management in both public and private Universities.

During his illustrious service career, he has earned significant reputation and professional excellence in his tenure of service spanning over 48 years in teaching, research and academic administration.

An eminent educationist, Prof. Islam has been involved many National Engineering Projects and has left significant contribution in National level Engineering and Educational fields. He is well known for his innovative nature, unsurpassable quality in dynamic leadership and exceptional managerial capability.

He has been involved in research in Microwave coupled line devices, Semiconductor MQW Lasers, DFB Lasers, VCSELs, OPVCSELs. He has a good number of research papers in these areas in reputed journals.

His professional experience covered a broad spectrum of areas like Microwave & RF Engineering, Satellite Communications, designing distribution systems for buildings and cities, special lighting for stadiums, exterior lighting of buildings, computer controlled exterior lighting. In recent years, he got involved in research on electrical energy, electrical power generation and planning. His expertise in the fields of Microwave & RF Engineering, RADAR, Satellite Communications, Lasers, designing electrical distribution systems for buildings, cities, and special lighting are well known. He has done significant number of Electrical design works of residential, industrial and commercial buildings and special installations.

He has done special studies on: (i) Satellite Communications and construction of satellites, (ii) RF Engineering & it's applications, (iii) Different types of ground RADARs, (iv) Airborne RADARS in aircrafts, (v) EW radar system, (vi) Instrument Landing System and its installations, (vii) Electrical Distribution systems in buildings, industries and cities. From time to time, he delivers special lectures on these topics.