Prof. Dr. Syed Akhter Hossain
Dean, School of Science and Engineering
& Head, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Canadian University of Bangladesh
E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]

Presentation Title: Blockchain and Internet of Things (IoT): Concept, Context and Research

Biography: Professor Syed Akhter Hossain joined as the Dean, School of Science and Engineering and Head, Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Canadian University of Bangladesh, one of the top leading and digital universities of Bangladesh on 1^st January 2022.

Prior to joining Canadian University of Bangladesh, Professor Hossain served as the Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at ULAB from 1st January 2021 and Daffodil International University from 2010 to December, 2020. Apart from this, he contributed significantly at East West University as Chairman of the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department more than five years and developed ERP and automations of the university. Professor Hossain obtained B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Applied Physics in 1989 and 1991 from Rajshahi University gradually. He obtained Gold medal for the first place in faculty of Applied Science in the undergraduate. He earned Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Dhaka on 2008 and completed his post-doctoral research in automation and artificial intelligence from Lumière University Lyon 2, France.

He works closely with the ICT Division of the Ministry of Post, Telecommunication and IT of the Government of the Peoples Republic of Bangladesh. He received several national and international awards for his outstanding contribution in ICT education, innovative projects for the visually impaired people. He also received other international awards for his scholastic works specially for the contribution of machine translator for Bangla Braille used by the visually impaired society. Besides, he received top researcher international recognition from ad scientific index in the year 2021 He received best researcher award in the year 2019 and 2020from Daffodil International University. His current research interests include Machine Learning and AI with Natural Language Processing.

As Erasmus Mundus post-doctoral fellow, he contributed in the area of Informatics and Industrial Engineering with University Lumiere Lyon 2 in France. During the time period of 2010 to 2020 at Daffodil International University, he transformed the Department of Computer Science and Engineering with several mileage from a small size to a size very big of today. During this timeframe from 2010 to 2020, he developed core competency of CSE students in competitive programming, developed research goal and achieved a significant ranking of the department in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and other research area engaging students in research, relentlessly worked to empower students and teachers of the department, connecting to industry including ICT division, BHTPA, BASIS, BACCO, ISPAB all relevant industries including ITEE of Japan, created massive collaborations among other Asian and European universities and full blown vibrations in the education of CSE, achieved accreditations for the CSE program twice and perform significantly in transforming students and teachers into professionals of the 21st century. In this timeframe he also established core concept of CSE alumni integration in the department and strong foundation of co-curricular activities of students in Computer and Programming Club (CPC) and Girls Computing Programming Club (GCPC) which helped the phenomenal growth of the department of today. He hosted many national and ACM ICPC regional programming contests as contest director. He has more than 30 years of working experience in industry, education, research and training. He is actively involved in research guidance/ research projects/ research collaborations with Institutes/ Industries and has more than 250 publications/ presentations and his work is listed in ACM, DBLP, IEEE Explore and other research databases.