Alumni Stories

Md Abdul Wahed Tomal, General Secretary of the e-commerce association of Bangladesh (e-CAB), and the Founder Chairman and CEO of ComJagat Technologies Limited. Has been serving in the area of Information and Communication Technology for Development, since 2001. Experienced in developing more than 100+ large scales IT projects and served several hundreds of clients in Bangladesh and abroad through different services. The successful organizer of more than 1000 events (fairs, workshops, seminars, etc.) within Bangladesh and abroad. Tomal has contributed to National Policy Making, especially in Fintech and e-Commerce sector. As an e-commerce industry leader, he has been strongly contributing to ICT development, especially in e-Commerce, e-Learning, software development, innovation, women empowerment, and climate issues. He has been involved with several e-Government Initiatives as a national solution provider and consultant for the Prime Minister’s Office, UNDP, ADB, Ministry of Science and ICT, Bangladesh Computer Council, universities, international organizations, and government ministries.

Dr. Shantanu is an internationally recognized expert in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Energy Technologies with a decade long career spanning across multiple industries, academic institutions, and continents. His research and development outcomes and innovations are documented in over 70 publications (including 21 peer-reviewed International Journal Papers) and 12 influential Patents in the smart energy and industrial domains by developing cross-disciplinary technologies such as resource scheduling, power system planning, machine learning, AI, and Data Science. During his career, Shantanu has taken key full-time roles as a researcher and data scientist in several Fortune 500 companies – such as Siemens, NEC, and Schneider Electric Software. In the academic sector, Shantanu has taken multiple Research Fellow roles in top-ranked universities and institutes, including the University of Melbourne, University of Tokyo, and CWI Amsterdam. He is a recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including best paper awards in international conferences, research grant awards. Shantanu is an active Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

I am proud to be an alumni of UAP from the CSE department. I acquired knowledge which helps me to forward my success from here and that accelerated me to climbing up. I started my career by forming my own company FIFOTech in 2002, during my studentship at this university which enriched my career more. After the studentship I experienced the experiences of various multinational companies like Grameen Phone, Banglalink, WorldTel etc. I did my job with my business correspondingly with the advantage of my gathered knowledge from the university. Now I am playing the role of Managing Director & CEO of my own company that I have enlarged by engaging more than 400 employees with IT/ITES business in the BPO industry. Alongside I am also playing a role of Secretary General of Bangladesh Association of Call Center and Outsourcing (BACCO). Moreover, I have made an alliance with a Global Business Platform named Global BPO alliance (GBA) where we get more than 20 countries' engagement in a single platform. With all these I have a Golden Fiber Asia, a jute product concern and an e-commerce platform named Shera Bangla 64.

Khan Mohummad Kaisar is leading the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh as Vice Chairman of Computer Engineering Division (CoED). He is the Co-Founder of e-CAB. Earlier Mr. Khan has joined the Civil Service and he is the first BCS Cadre officer among the Alumnus of UAP. He is now serving in the Department Of Telecommunications (DOT). He is expert in Alcatel, Ericsson, Netas and Huawei Technology. He has been enriched by a professional course from the ZTE University, China. He received a token of appreciation from the govt. of Thailand for his contribution in the Asia Pacific PKI Forum, Bangkok. For his worship in the field of ICTD, he was placed in the A2i Programme, Prime Minister’s Office and then in the MOICT. He worked as DPD of a project of CCA, MOICT. He has a vast experience to work with the national committee for ICT Policy, Cyber Security Policy and e- Commerce Policy of the country and NGN based NTN project. Mr. Khan achieved a rare chance to contribute on 11 action lines of UN WSIS, Geneva, Switzerland and delivered a remarkable utterance on ICTD in the UN WSIS Forum Summit as a govt. delegate of Bangladesh.

Asma is a resourceful and committed professional Senior Business Analyst, currently working at BBC, Design & Engineering Division. Her job category covers Technology, System, and Delivery projects. She has also gained a broad range of work experience from diverse divisions of Copyright Licensing Agency, City and Guilds (C&G), Cancer Research UK (CRUK), and other London/UK-based leading organizations. Before her corporate career, Asma achieved more than tenten years of teaching experience in the various subject areas, most commonly in Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, Decision Support System Designs, and many more. Her personality and strong knowledge-sharing skills supported her to progress significantly and she has successfully worked at multiple universities during her lifetime in Bangladesh. Most remarkably, Asma is the founder of We Can Change Life (WCCL), it is a non-profit organization providing a global support network platform. WCCL has started the journey aiming to provide opportunities to everybody, making scopes available to share and gain knowledge and skills from each other ensuring mutual benefits.