About me
 

Hello! My name is Saiful Islam. I am a passionate and inquisitive Faculty currently in the role of Senior Lecturer at BRAC University. A dedicated mentor and educator, my teaching philosophy is centered around innovation, integrity, and individuality. My students are encouraged to explore their passions above all else,  and this supportive, nurturing, and feedback-oriented environment propels them to achieve excellence. 

During the COVID-19 pandemic, I demonstrated my commitment to advancing remote education for emerging Bangladeshi computer scientists by creating numerous YouTube Tutorials and accessible study materials, significantly impacting the academic community.

Research Area(s): My research areas and interests are vast and diverse, including but not limited to:

• Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing

For more insights into my work and biography, please visit Google Scholar.
 

Committed to nurturing students’ ambitions, I strive, with unwavering dedication, to guide them toward achieving significant National and International milestones. A testament to this dedication lies in the honor I received in the form of a Gold Medal at the International Science and Invention Fair by the Indonesian Young Scientists Association for my outstanding guidance and supervision of Team Atlas. I have also served as a Co-Principal Investigator at BRACU Mongol Tori and have been selected to participate in NASA's Mars Rover Competition in Utah, USA. As the Co-Advisor of the Robotics Club, I encourage innovation. 

At the same time, my leadership as Team Leader of Techniche, a fully-funded Techno-Management Festival at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), showcases my organizational acumen. My advisory role contributed to securing a merit position at the prestigious Indian Rover Challenge, organized by Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Chennai, India.

My work has been featured in several prominent news sources, e.g., MARS SOCIETY SOUTH ASIA, BRACU Express, The Daily Star.

Publications
 

Journals:
1. Eunus, S. I., Hossain, S., Ridwan, A. E. M., Adnan, A., Islam, M. S., Karim, D. Z., Alam, G. R., Uddin, J. (2024 April 8). ECARRNet: An Efficient LSTM-Based Ensembled Deep Neural Network Architecture for Railway Fault Detection.
 

Book Chapters:
1. Saha, S., Islam, M. S., Khaled, M. A. B., Tairin, S. (2018, September 02). An Efficient Traffic Sign Recognition Approach Using a Novel Deep Neural Network Selection Architecture.
 

2.  Abir, B. M., Mahal, S. N., Islam, M. S., Chakrabarty, A. (2018, June 29). Bangla Handwritten Character Recognition With Multilayer Convolutional Neural Network.

Conferences:

1. Emon, M. I. H, Iqbal, K. N., Azad, I., Aporna, A. A., Amlan, N. S., Islam, M. S. (2023, March 24). Intracranial Brain Hemorrhage Diagnosis and Classification: A Hybrid Approach.

2. Rahman, R., Rahman, M. A., Islam, M. S., Hasan, M. (2021, January 20). DeepGrip: Cricket Bowling Delivery Detection with Superior CNN Architectures.

3. Islam, M. S., Islam, T., Hasan, M. (2021, July 07). Approaching Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Biometric Recognition Based on Fingerprint Database.

4. Hossain, S., Rahman, R., Ahmed, M. S., Islam, M. S. (2020, December 12). Pneumonia detection by analyzing xray images using mobilenet, resnet architecture and long short term memory. 

5. Arko, A. R., Khan, S. H., Islam, M. S. (2019, July 17). Smart Security, Food and Environment Monitoring System for Cows using Microcontroller.

6.  Khan, A. H., Khan, F. N., Israt, L., Islam, M. S. (2019, February 20). Thumb Controlled Low-Cost Prosthetic Robotic Arm.

7. Rahman, M., Islam, M. R. A., Rezyuan, M., Islam, M. S. (2019, February 20). Smart Health Care Monitoring System By Seven Segment Image Processing Technique.

8. Saha, S., Khaled, M. A. B., Islam, M. S., Puja, N. S., Hasan, M. (2018, July 06). Detecting sex from handwritten examples.

9. Alam, M. A., Ahsan, F., Soobhee, A., Subhani, M., Hossain, F. M. F., Islam, M. S. (2018, June 25). Faster Image Compression Technique Based on LZW Algorithm Using GPU Parallel Processing.

10. Nipu, M. N. A., Talukder, S., Islam, M. S., Chakrabarty, A. (2018, June 25). Human identification using wifi signal.

11. Shammi, S. K., Sultana, S., Islam, M. S., Chakrabarty, A. (2018, June 25). Low Latency Image Processing of Transportation System Using Parallel Processing co-incident Multithreading (PPcM).
 

12. Chowdhury, M. T., Islam, M. S., Bipul, B. H., Rhaman, M. K. (2015, November 25). Implementation of an Optical Character Reader (OCR) for Bengali language.

Professional Roles
 

• Senior Lecturer
  Department of Computer Science and Engineering
  BRAC University, Bangladesh (Jul. 2022 - Present)
• Lecturer
  Department of Computer Science and Engineering
  BRAC University, Bangladesh (Sep. 2015 - Jun. 2022)                                                                                      
• Senior Researcher
  Department of Computer Science
  Independent University, Bangladesh (Jul. 2017 - Present)
• Co-Principal Investigator, NASA Mars Rover Competition
  Mongol Tori ‑ A next generation mars rover (2018)
• Advising Team Lead                                                                                
  Department of Computer Science and Engineering
  BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh (Jul. 2022 - Present)
• Co-Advisor
  Robotics Club of BRAC University (ROBU)
  BRAC University, Bangladesh (Sep. 2016 - Present)
  
  
  
   

Achievements and Honors
 

• Vice Chancellor’s Academic List Award
Recognition of Outstanding Academic Performance
BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Dean’s Certificate List Award
Recognition of Outstanding Academic Performance
BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

• Gold Medal
Supervisor at the International Science and Invention Fair
Indonesian Young Scientists Association (2023)

• Certificate of Participation
Contribution to The Mars Society’s University Rover Challenge
Affiliated with NASA (2019, 2017)

• Felicitation
Participant in Techniche, fully funded by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), India (2017)
• Certificate of Merit
Merit Position in Indian Rover Challenge
Organized by VIT University, Vellore, India (2018)