Prof Dr. Md. Abul Kashem Mia made new VC of UIU

Professor Dr Md Abul Kashem Mia joined as the Vice Chancellor of United International University (UIU) on October 17, 2023.

His appointment has been made by the Hon'ble President of Bangladesh and Chancellor of the University for a four year term, reads a press release.

Prior to his joining the position he was the Pro-VC of UIU. Before joining UIU, he was working as a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of BUET.

He served as head of the Department of CSE in BUET from 2001-2003 and was controller of examinations in the university from 2012-2018.

He also served as the Dean of the School of Science & Engineering of United International University in 2018-2019.

Prof. Kashem obtained his Ph.D. from Dept. of System Information Sciences of Tohoku University, Japan in 1998 and MS from the same university in 1995.

He did his Master’s in CSE and Bachelor’s in EEE from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 1992 & 1989 respectively.

In 2006, Prof. Kashem led the development of BUET's ‘BUET Institutional Information System (BIIS)’ the first of its kind in Bangladesh. He has also led different projects related to ICT at the government and private levels.

He is engaged in multidimensional research. Which includes algorithms, parallel processing, graph theory, graph visualization and computational complexity.

A total of 50 research articles by Prof. Kashem have been published in national and international journals.

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