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Syed Akhter Hossain (born 1969) is a computer scientist, educator, columnist and technology consultant from
Bangladesh Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eighth-most populous country in the world and among the List of countries and dependencies by ...
. Currently, he is a professor and dean of
Computer Science and Engineering Computer science and engineering (CSE) is an academic subject comprising approaches of computer science and computer engineering. There is no clear division in computing between science and engineering, just like in the field of materials science ...
department at Daffodil International University (DIU).


Birth and education

He was born in
Jessore Jessore (, ), officially Jashore, is a city of Jessore District in Khulna Division. It lies in southwestern Bangladesh. It is home to the first flight training school of the Bangladeshi Air Force, established in 1971. Jessore city consists of 9 wa ...
on 21 January 1969.


Others activities

Hossain is a contest director of ACM-ICPC Dhaka Regionals 2007, 2012 and Chief Judge of National Collegiate Programming Contest in Bangladesh 2015 and Contest Director of NCPC 2014. He is also the Chief Judge of
ACM ICPC Dhaka Site ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (abbreviated as ACM-ICPC or just ICPC) is an annual multi-tiered competition among the universities of the world. There are eighteen different sites in Asia that host Asia Regional Final and Dhaka ...
2015 and one of the pioneers of spreading programming education in Bangladesh by organising Computer Science Education Week and NGPC(National Girls Programming Contest). He is also an organising committee member of ICCIT (
International Conference on Computer and Information Technology International Conference on Computer and Information Technology or ICCIT is a series of computer science and information technology based conferences that is hosted in Bangladesh since 1997 by a different university each year. ICCIT provides a for ...
) at 2013, and hold the chair on 2014. He is also taking steps to enrich
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content.


Honors and awards

* Gold Medal in BSc (Honors) examination for the first place in the Faculty of Applied Sciences, Rajshahi University * Digital Innovation Award 2011 for Bangla-2-Braille Machine Translator * BASIS 2011 Abishaker Khoze Champion Award * CMO-Asia Best Professor in IT Award from Singapore, July 2012 * National ICT Award 2016 for Outstanding Contribution to the ICT Education and Technology of Bangladesh at Digital World 2016 Award Night, 21 October 2016


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