Assistant Professor
Md Saiful Islam is an Assistant Professor (currently on leave) in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, where he has been a faculty member since 2013. He is currently working as a Graduate Research Fellow at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute in Canada. Previously, he served as the Lab Head and Coordinator of the SUST Natural Language Processing Research Group and SUST ACM Lab. He also mentored and coached the SUST Competitive Programming teams. From 2011 to 2013, he worked as a Software Engineer at Eyeball Networks Inc in Dhaka. He received his B.Sc. in Engineering from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology in 2011. Md Saiful Islam has authored and co-authored over five journals and more than 60 conference papers in the areas of Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Data Science, and Social Mining.