Mohammad Kaykobad - Professional Positions

Professional Positions

1. Worked as consultant for computerization of Titas Gas Company, Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited, Jiban Bima Corporation, Election Commission, Bureau of Statistics, Dhaka Stock Exchange, Chittagong Stock Exchange, Export Promotion Bureau, Social Marketing Company
2. Serves as adviser to different computerization projects of national interest like Bangladesh Bank
3. Serves as adviser to Support to ICT Projects for e-Governance
4. External Examiner of Ph.D. Thesis of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jadavpur University, Calcutta
5. Director, ACM ICPC Asia Region Dhaka Site, 2001, 2002, 2003
6. Convener, Steering Committee of Workshop on Algorithm and Computation (WALCOM 2008) to be held at Dhaka, Bangladesh during 7–8 February 2008.
7. Fellow, Bangladesh Academy of Sciences, the highest academic community in Bangladesh.
8. Program Co-Chair of Workshop on Algorithm and Computation (WALCOM 2007) held at Dhaka, Bangladesh on 12 February 2007 and indexed by CSB and DBLP.
9. Organizing Chair, International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, 1998.
10. Awarded IT Scholar Visiting Professorship at Kyung Hee University, South Korea, 2005.
11. Director, ACM ICPC Asia Region Dhaka Site, 2001, 2002, 2003.
12. Leader of the first ever team from Bangladesh to participate in the International Olympiad in Informatics held at Athens, Greece during September 11–18, 2004.
13. Leader of the Bangladesh team of International Olympiad in Informatics 2005 held at Nowy Sacz, Poland during 18–25 August 2005.
14. Awarded Bangladesh Academy of Sciences(BAS)Gold Medal for senior scientists Physical Sciences group by the Prime Minister of the country of The People's Republic of Bangladesh, July 26, 2006.
15. Awarded Gold Medal for contribution in ICT Education at a ceremony at Bangladesh China Convention Centre by Bangladesh Computer Society and presented by the President of The People's Republic of Bangladesh, July 26, 2005.
16. Information Technology in National Development, Keynote speaker at Symposium of the 25th Science and Information and Communication Technology Week, Osmany Smrity Milonayaton, June 23, 2003.
17. Keynote Speaker at 30th Anniversary of Bangladesh Mathematical Society, 26 December 2002.
18. Role of Scientific and Technological Information for Promotion of Research and Socio-economic Development of Bangladesh, Keynote Speaker at National Scientific Information and Documentation Day-2002, BANSDOC, June 13, 2002.
19. Information Technology in National Development, speaker at Symposium of the Workshop on “The emerging role of science and information and communication technology in the Bangladesh development Context, BCSIR, June 25, 2002.
20. Keynote Speaker in the ICCIT 2000 held at NSU during 25–26 January 2001.
21. Invited Speaker at the First UNESCO Regional Workshop on Application of Mathematics, held at Bahawalpur, Pakistan, 1989.
22. Participated as a Resource Person in Workshop on Science Communication sponsored by COSTED and UNESCO held at Goa during 18–23 November 2001.
23. Visiting Professor at CSE Department of The Chinese University of Hong Kong during July 4–20, 2001.
24. Visiting Professor at CSE Department of The Chinese University of Hong Kong during July 4–20, 2000.
25. Ex-Director, Chittagong Stock Exchange.
26. Ex-Director, Dhaka Stock Exchange.
27. Organizing Mathematics Olympiad for school and college students in Bangladesh since 2003.
28. Former Advisor, BUET Chess Club.
29. Moderator, Satyen Bose Club.
30. During the last 13 years led undergraduate students of CSE Department to publish 25/30 papers in reputed international journals.