Prof Dr Md Abul Kashem Mia joined United International University (UIU) as its vice chancellor on Tuesday.
His appointment was made by the 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 a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Buet.
He served as head of the Department of CSE of Buet from 2001-2003 and was controller of examinations of Buet from 2012-2018.
He also served as the dean of the School of Science and Engineering of United International University from 2018-2019.
Prof Kashem obtained his PhD from the Department of System Information Sciences of Tohoku University, Japan in 1998 and MSc 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 ICT-related projects at government and private levels.
He is engaged in multidimensional research, which includes algorithms, parallel processing, graph theory, graph visualisation and computational complexity.
A total of 50 research articles by Prof Kashem have been published in national and international journals.