35 Notable alumni of
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
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The Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology is 1445th in the world, 317th in Asia, and 2nd in Bangladesh by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 35 notable alumni from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Fazlur Khan
- Enrolled in the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
- Graduated with Bachelor of Engineering in civil engineering
- Occupations
- engineerarchitectcivil engineerstructural engineer
- Biography
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Fazlur Rahman Khan was a Bangladeshi-American structural engineer and architect, who initiated important structural systems for skyscrapers. Considered the "father of tubular designs" for high-rises, Khan was also a pioneer in computer-aided design (CAD). He was the designer of the Sears Tower, since renamed Willis Tower, the tallest building in the world from 1973 until 1998, and the 100-story John Hancock Center.
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Aupee Karim
- Years
- 1979-.. (age 45)
- Occupations
- faculty membermodelarchitecttelevision actoractor
- Biography
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Syeda Tuhin Ara Karim, known as Aupee Karim, is a National Film Award-winning Bangladeshi actress, model, architect, and dancer. Besides, she is a faculty member at School of Architecture of American International University-Bangladesh.
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Hanif Sanket
- Occupations
- television presentertelevision directortelevision producer
- Biography
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Hanif Sanket born as A.K.M. Hanif is a Bangladeshi television host, writer, producer, comedian, voice actor and singer. He is best known as the creator and host of the television show Ityadi. He is regarded as the most popular media personality in Bangladesh.
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Anisul Hoque
- Occupations
- editorcolumnistscreenwriterauthorjournalist
- Biography
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Anisul Hoque is a Bangladeshi author, screenwriter, novelist, dramatist and journalist. He won Bangla Academy Literary Award in 2011. His most popular work is his non-fiction novel Maa (mother). He is also the editor of Kishore Alo. In addition, he is one of the two writers of the film Television (2012 film).
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Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain is a Bangladeshi politician. He is the former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Faridpur-3 constituency. He served as a minister of the Minister of Labour and Employment, Minister of Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment and Minister of Local Government and Rural Development and Co-operative.
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Tauquir Ahmed
- Occupations
- film directortelevision actorscreenwriterarchitect
- Biography
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Tauquir Ahmed is a Bangladeshi architect and actor, turned director in both television and cinema. His films won many international and national awards including Bangladesh National Film Awards in the Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Story categories for the films Joyjatra (2004) and Oggatonama (2016).
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Hasanul Haq Inu
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Hasanul Haq Inu is a Bangladeshi politician and the former Minister of Information of Bangladesh. He leads a faction of the Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal and was involved in a Marxist insurgency in the 1970s.
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Jamilur Reza Choudhury
- Occupations
- civil engineerengineer
- Biography
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Dr. Jamilur Reza Choudhury was a Bangladeshi civil engineer, professor, researcher, and education advocate. He was an Adviser (Minister) to Caretaker Government of Bangladesh (April–June 1996). He was the first vice chancellor of BRAC University and former vice chancellor of University of Asia Pacific. He was also the president of Bangladesh Mathematical Olympiad Committee from 2003. He was awarded Ekushey Padak by the Government of Bangladesh in the category of science and technology in 2017. He was inducted as a National Professor by the Government of Bangladesh in 2018.
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G M Quader
- Years
- 1948-.. (age 76)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ghulam Muhammed Quader, better known as GM Quader, is a Bangladeshi politician and the 2nd chairperson of Jatiya Party. He is the incumbent Jatiya Sangsad member from the Lalmonirhat-3 constituency. He served as the Minister of Commerce and Minister of Civil Aviation and Tourism from 2009 to 2014.
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Tanzir Tuhin
- Occupations
- musiciansinger-songwriter
- Biography
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Tanzir Tuhin is a Bangladeshi musician, singer-songwriter, actor, painter, and architect, best known as a longtime member of the independent music group Shironamhin. He joined the group as lead vocalist in 2000. Shironamhin subsequently achieved national success with their albums Bondho Janala, Shironamhin Rabindranath and Shironamhin Shironamhin. By the late 2000s, they had become one of the most well-known group in the rock music history of Bangladesh. Amid personal conflict, Tuhin left Shironamhin in 2017 and form a new band named Avash at the end of that year.
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Mahmudur Rahman
- Occupations
- authorjournalistengineer
- Biography
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Mahmudur Rahman is one of the owners and acting editor of one of Bangladesh's Bengali daily newspapers, Amar Desh. He is also an author, engineer and businessman.
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Syed Mainul Hossain
- Occupations
- architectengineer
- Biography
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Syed Mainul Hossain was a Bangladeshi structural engineer and architect. He is the designer of the National Martyrs' Memorial, one of the national landmarks of Bangladesh. He was posthumously awarded the Independence Day Award in 2022.
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Saida Muna Tasneem
- Born in
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Bangladesh - Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Saida Muna Tasneem is a Bangladeshi diplomat who has served as High Commissioner of Bangladesh to the United Kingdom and Ambassador to Ireland and Liberia since November 2018. She is the first woman to hold these positions. She is the incumbent First Vice-President to the International Maritime Organization since January 2024. She was formerly the High Commissioner to Thailand and Cambodia and Bangladesh's representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.
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Marina Tabassum
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Marina Tabassum is a Bangladeshi architect. She is the principal architect of Marina Tabassum Architects. In 2016, she won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the design of Bait-ur-Rouf Mosque in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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Rafiq Azam
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Muhammad Rafiq Azam is a Bangladeshi architect who is principal architect at Shatotto Architecture.
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Yafes Osman
- Occupations
- politicianarchitect
- Biography
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Yeafesh Osman is a Bangladeshi architect and politician and the incumbent Minister of Science and Technology of Government of Bangladesh since 2015. He worked under Fazlur Rahman Khan, the notable architect of Sears Tower.
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Anwar Hossain
- Occupations
- photographer
- Biography
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Anwar Hossain was a Bangladeshi photographer and cinematographer. He won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Cinematography a record five times for the films Sundori (1979), Emiler Goenda Bahini (1980), Puraskar (1983), Anya Jibon (1995) and Lalsalu (2003).
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Ainun Nishat
- Occupations
- expertengineeracademic
- Biography
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Ainun Nishat is a water resource and climate change specialist from Bangladesh. As of 2017, he is serving as a professor emeritus of BRAC University. He represented Bangladesh at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2009, among other international climate-related conferences.
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Ashiqur Rahman
- Occupations
- film directorcivil engineer
- Biography
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Ashiqur Rahman is a Bangladeshi television director, film maker, and screenwriter. He has directed five action films: Kistimaat, Gangster Returns, Musafir, Operation Agneepath and Super Hero. He wrote all except Kistimaat.
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Ziaur Rahman Zia
- Occupations
- songwritermusicianbassistcomposerarchitect
- Biography
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Ziaur Rahman,, known as Zia, is a Bangladeshi rock musician, composer, bassist, songwriter, and architect popularly known as the founder and leader of the Bangladeshi independent music group Shironamhin. In addition, he plays bass guitar, cello, sarod and many other instruments for the compositions and do the production for Shironamhin band.
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Chamok Hasan
- Years
- 1986-.. (age 38)
- Enrolled in the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
- Studied electrical engineering
- Occupations
- YouTuberengineerlyricistwriter
- Biography
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Nowrin Hasan Chamok, commonly known as Chamok Hasan, is an author, musician, online educator and engineer from Bangladesh. As of 2022, he authored 6 books on mathematics and popular science in Bengali. Chamok debuted as a music producer and playback singer in the 2022 Indian Bengali-language drama film Baba Baby O. In 2023, he wrote and performed "Swapno bonar somoy ekhon" for another Indian film Fatafati.
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Saif Ul Haque
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Saif Ul Haque is an architect and educator based in Dhaka. He received Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2017-2019 cycle.
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Kazi Khaleed Ashraf
- Years
- 1959-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- urban planneruniversity teacherarchitect
- Biography
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Kazi Khaleed Ashraf is a Bangladeshi architect, urbanist and architectural historian. Writing from the intersection of architecture, landscape and the city, Ashraf has authored books and essays on architecture in India and Bangladesh, the work of Louis Kahn, and the city of Dhaka. His various writings on the architecture of Bangladesh have provided a theoretical ground for understanding both the historical and contemporary forms of architecture, while his written and design work on Dhaka advances that city as a "theorem" for understanding urbanism in a deltaic geography. Ashraf and contributing team received the Pierre Vago Journalism Award from the International Committee of Architectural Critics for the Architectural Design publication Made in India. He has also co-authored a number of publications with the architect Saif Ul Haque. Ashraf has recently established an international publication series called Locations: Anthology of Architecture and Urbanism that will present works and features from around the globe.
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Ibne Fazal Shayekhuzzaman
- Occupations
- military leader
- Biography
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Ibne Fazal Shayekhuzzaman is a retired major general of the Bangladesh Army and a former E-in-C, Engineer-in-Chief of Bangladesh Army. and former Commandant of the Defence Services Command and Staff College.
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M. Feroze Ahmed
- Biography
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M. Feroze Ahmed achieved excellence in teaching, engineering profession and scientific research and earned national and international recognition and awards as an eminent professor, civil engineer and scientist. He is the former vice-chancellor of Stamford University Bangladesh.
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Jalal Ahmad
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Jalal Ahmad is a practicing Bangladeshi architect. He is the Ex-President of Institute of Architects Bangladesh and the vice president of Commonwealth Association of Architects.
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Saleh Uddin
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Mohammad Saleh Uddin, "Badal" is a Bangladeshi architect, professor, author and artist.
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Shakoor Majid
- Occupations
- architectwriter
- Biography
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Shakoor Majid is a Bangladeshi architect, writer, film maker and photographer. He was awarded Bangla Academy Literary Award 2017 in the travelogue category by the Government of Bangladesh.
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M. Rezwan Khan
- Years
- 1957-.. (age 67)
- Occupations
- engineeracademic
- Biography
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Mohammad Rezwan Khan is a Bangladeshi academic and former vice-chancellor of United International University. He is a Fellow at Bangladesh Academy of Sciences.
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Kamar Ahmad Simon
- Occupations
- film director
- Biography
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Kamar Ahmad Simon is a Bangladeshi filmmaker. He was featured as red carpet director in Piazza Grande at Locarno and has won various awards including the prestigious Harrell Award at CIFF, Grand Prix at Cinéma du Réel (Paris), Open Doors Award and Arte International Prix at Locarno, Golden Conch at MIFF (Mumbai), grants from Sundance, IDFA-Bertha and WCF/ Berlinale. He has been a jury member of the Sydney International Film Festival for the Australian segment, La Bibliothèque publique d’information (BPI) France, Johns Hopkins University USA has acquired his film and Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI) have exhibited his work.
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Ekram Hossain
- Years
- 1971-.. (age 53)
- Occupations
- university teacher
- Biography
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Ekram Hossain is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Hossain leads the Wireless Communications, Networks, and Services Research Group at University of Manitoba and is editor-in-chief for the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials. In addition, Hossain has held visiting professorships at the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Tohoku University, Japan (November 2010), and School of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Australia (June 2008).
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Muhammad M. Hussain
- Born in
- Bangladesh
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Muhammad Mustafa Hussain is an electronics engineer specializing in CMOS technology-enabled low-cost flexible, stretchable and reconfigurable electronic systems. He is a professor in King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. He is the principal investigator at Integrated Nanotechnology Laboratory, and Integrated Disruptive Electronic Applications (IDEA) Laboratory. He is also the director of the Virtual Fab: vFabLab™.
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Tanzima Hashem
- Enrolled in the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
- Graduated with Master of Science in computer science and engineering
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science in computer science and engineering
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Tanzima Hashem, a Bangladeshi professor at BUET, is one of the five women scientists from the developing world who won Elsevier Foundation Awards in 2017. Her research focuses on maintaining user privacy while location-based services are being accessed. She is also noted for organizing the first workshop in Bangladesh on women in computing in 2014.
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Alvi Ahmed
- Occupations
- film director
- Biography
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Alvi Ahmed is a Bangladeshi director and script writer in both television and cinema. He has directed around 100 dramas and a full-length feature film. He was nominated several times for the "Meril Prothom Alo Awards". In 2015, his directed film "U-Turn" got released in more than 80 movie theatres around the country. He is a translator. He has also translated some stories and novels of the famous Japanese writer Haruki Murakami.
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R. A. Gani
- Years
- 1927-2016 (aged 89)
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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R. A. Ghani was a Bangladeshi engineer and Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician. He was a member of the Jatiya Sangsad, and served as the state minister of Science and Technology.
