Saiful Islam (vice-chancellor)

Saiful Islam is a Bangladeshi academic who is the current Vice-Chancellor of the American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB). Previously he served as the Vice-Chancellor of the Dhaka International University. He was also the 13th Vice-Chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).

Education Saiful Islam earned his Bachelor's and Master's in Electrical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 1975 and 1977 respectively. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from University of Cambridge in 1986.

Career Saiful Islam started his teaching career as a lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering of BUET in May 1975. He became Professor in 1988. He served as the Dean of the Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering during 1995–1997. The post was vacant since Khaleda Ekram had died on 24 May 2016. He was VC of BUET until 25 June 2020. Following the murder of Abrar Fahad, a second year EEE student and resident at the Sher-e-Bangla Hall of BUET, on 7 October 2019, massive protest spread all over the university campus. But Islam didn't show up after the murder incident, resulting in tremendous criticism throughout the country. Later on 9 October 2019, he went to visit victim Abrar's home at Kushtia, where he met immense public protest and couldn't enter his home. The Teachers' Association of BUET and Alumni Association of BUET demanded his resignation as vice-chancellor due to his failure. Saiful denied his failure.

From 7 February 2022 until 22 May 2024 he worked as a VC of Dhaka International University.

Awards Gold Medal by Bangladesh Academy of Sciences (1988)