Dr. Shaikh A. Fattah, SMIEEE, FIEB

Dr. Shaikh Fattah received Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Concordia University, Canada and later he was a visiting Postdoc at Princeton University, NJ, USA. He received B.Sc. and M.Sc. Engineering degrees in EEE from BUET, Bangladesh, where he is serving as a Professor, Department of EEE and Director, Institute of Robotics and Automation, BUET. In his 24 years of teaching life at BUET, he held several important positions, such as Provost of Suhrawardy Hall, Associate Director of Students Welfare, and Director of the Institute of Nuclear Power Engineering, BUET. He did SSC from Government Laboratory High School, Dhaka and HSC from Dhaka College, Dhaka and secured 5th and 9th positions in Dhaka Board, respectively.

Dr. Fattah has contributed to numerous national and international projects and research and conducted many training/workshops all over the world. His current research focusses on AI and Machine Learning and their applications in power and energy, signal processing, robotics and biomedical engineering. He published more than 230 international journal/conference papers and delivered 90+ Keynote/invited talks in many countries.

Dr. Fattah is a very active volunteer in IEEE, world’s largest technical professional organization. He was the Chair of IEEE Bangladesh Section and currently Chairing IEEE Region-10 (Asia-Pacific) Adhoc Committee on Climate Change, Humanitarian Activity Committee of IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES), Chapters of IEEE Society on Social Implication of Technology (SSIT). He is the Chair of IEEE SPS Bangladesh Chapter (BDC) and Vice-Chair of IEEE PES, RAS, EMBC, and SSIT BDCs. He is the Board Member of IEEE Smart Village and member of PES long range planning committee. He was the General Chair of IEEE R10-HTC2017 and TPC Chair of IEEE TENSYMP2020.

Dr. Fattah received several awards, e.g. Concordia University's Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Prize (ENS, 2009), 2007 URSI Canadian Young Scientist Award, Dr. Rashid Gold Medal (in MSc), BAS-TWAS Young Scientists Prize (2014), 2016 IEEE MGA Achievement Award, 2017 IEEE R10 HTA Outstanding Volunteer Award and 2018 IEEE R10 Outstanding Volunteer Award. He is the Editorial Board Member of IEEE Access, IEEE potentials and Biomed Research International. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Fellow of IEB.