Professor Dr. Md. Saiful Islam, a distinguished academician, is currently working as a faculty of Institute of Information and Communication Technology (IICT) in Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). He was also a former director of IICT and BUET ICT Cell.

He completed his B.Sc. Engineering in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from BUET and M.Sc. Eng. from Sanghai University, China. Dr. Islam achieved his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) from BUET in 2008. He earned scholarships in undergraduate level and graduation level for his excellent academic records. He started his career as a Lecturer at Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (erstwhile BIT Chittagong) in 1990. In 2000, he joined in the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology at Islamic University of Technology (IUT), Gazipur and in 2003 he joined at IICT, BUET as an Assistant Professor and working there as a professor till to date.

During his long academic career, he supervised numerous Masters theses, diploma projects on system architecture, optical transmission system, database system, cyber security, software engineering etc. and supervised about 50 postgraduate students which resulted the solutions to various real-life ICT problems.  Dr. Islam has actively contributed in different IT infrastructure development projects of various regulatory bodies, national commission and committees, govt. institutions and organizations as well as educational institutions at national and international level. Notably, he was a committee member in Inquiry committee regarding Index Issues and Formation of Assessment Team to assess the DSE-FlexTP OMS of Dhaka Stock Exchange PLC. Moreover, he participated in tender committees of Ministry of Education, Ministry of Finance, etc. for purchase of OMR machines, for procurement of core banking system of Janata Bank PLC., for NTRCA and in Padma Bridge Project, etc. 

He achieved professional certification (CCNA 1-4) on WAN technologies, Switching Basics and Intermediate Routing, Routers and Routing Basics, Networking Basics. Dr. Islam attended several workshops and short courses held at Indonesia, Philippines, Cambodia, Malaysia, India, Japan, UK, USA etc. He has a number of publications on cybersecurity and optical communication in top-tier journals of science, technology and engineering. He also served as the organizing chair of several international conferences and successfully organized those events. He attended and presented papers on a good number of national and international conferences.

Dr. Islam acted as the secretary of the Research and Academic Committee and coordinator of School om Internet (SOI) Asia project of IICT, BUET. He was also a member of design and upgradation of syllabus of different programs offered by IICT. He actively involved and worked for the development of CISCO and Huawei Networking Laboratory at IICT, BUET. He served as a Legal Main Contact and instructor of BUET CISCO Regional Academy. He was also a convenor of Cisco Retooling workshop, coordinator at international meeting of “AI3 & SOI Asia Bi-Annual Meeting, 2010” and “4^th SOI Asia Operators Global e-workshop”.