Rear Admiral Khandakar Akhter Hossain assumed the role of the 5th vice-chancellor of Bangladesh Maritime University on Wednesday, said a press release.
He was commissioned in the engineering branch of Bangladesh Navy on January 1, 1991.
He has completed his BSc and MSc in naval architecture and marine engineering with commendable academic distinction from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.
He completed his shipbuilding and shipyard management course in china and in the United States of America.
He has achieved a PhD degree from BUET and the University of California, USA.
He has served as chief engineer officer on board different frigates and corvettes. He participated in a UN peacekeeping mission in Sudan.
He was also project chief Naval Architect/Engineer of the state-of-the-art warship Swadhinata Class Missile Corvette project in China.
He has performed various instructional duties at Bangladesh Naval Academy, Marine Academy, NIT, and MIST.
He was also dean and head of the NAME department and ME faculty at MIST.
He has served as member, engineering, in the Chittagong Port Authority. He performed the duties of managing director in all three shipbuilding heavy industries: Chittagong Dry Dock Limited, Dockyard and Engineering Works Limited and Khulna Shipyard Limited and has contributed remarkably to the national shipbuilding industry.
He has also performed his duties as commodore superintendent of dockyard.
He is a fellow of IEB; RINA in the United Kingdom; and IAMSP, USA.
He has more than one hundred and fifty international publications on AI, IoT, robotics, satellite communication, ship recycling, shipbuilding, energy solutions, human resource diversification, port operations, and advanced technologies in diversified international technical journals, added the press release.