Prof. Dr. Mohammad Mahfuzul Islam, PEng is the Vice-Chancellor in Canadian University of Bangladesh. He is a Professor (on leave) in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). He served as the Provost of Shahid Smrity Hall, BUET; President of Bangladesh Computer Society (BCS); Chairman, of Computer Engineering Division, IEB; Chairman of Question Formulation Committee, BD-ITEC and IPA, Japan; Convener of IT Innovation and Scholarship Assessment Committee, ICT Division; Head of the Department of CSE, BUET; Director of Dhaka Electric Power Company (DESCO) Ltd; Associate Director of Directorate of Students’ Welfare  (DSW) at BUET; Assistant Provost of Nazrul Islam Hall, BUET; International Students’ Officer of Monash Postgraduate Association (MPA); Gippsland Campus Representative of MPA; Senior Vice-president of Jamalpur Zila Students’ Association, Dhaka and so on. 

He completed his PhD from Gippsland School of IT, Monash University, Australia in 2006 and his MSc Engg and BSc Engg degrees from the Department of CSE, BUET in 2000 and 1997, respectively.

Dr. Islam published more than 70 International and peer-reviewed journals, conferences and research articles in highly reputed publishing domains like IEEE, Elsevier and Willey. He worked as a reviewer in a wide number of world famous journals. He served as the project leader, a consultant, an assessor and a team member in a number of government and non-government projects including Machine Readable Passport, National ID Project, Hi-Tech Driving License Project, Digital Classroom, VAT Automation conceptual model and DNA Lab. He was also one of the key person in designing the electronic voting machine (EVM) in Bangladesh.