Dr. Md. Arafat Hossain
Professor
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (KUET)
Khulna -9203, Bangladesh.
Mail : [email protected]
Website : www.kuet.ac.bd/eee/arafat/


Bio: Md Arafat Hossain is Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Chairman of the Central Computer Centre at the Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET) and a member of IEEE, OSA, SPIE and IEB. He received a PhD on smart sensing and instrumentation from The University of Sydney in 2017 and later an Australian Award of Endeavour Fellowship for his postdoctoral research in smart sensing. Throughout this period, Dr. Hossain has conducted the cutting-edge research in the interdisciplinary area of smart sensing and sensor systems and generated some ground-breaking results which have been reported and featured in a number of reputed journals and news including the Nature Photonics News. Among them, smartphone spectrometers and smartphone laser beam profiler are particularly well-recognized. He is also an expert member of 3D printing & technologies and was responsible to establish the facilities at the interdisciplinary Photonics Laboratories (Sydney), when he also helped to develop technologies for some biomedical start-ups at Sydney. Dr. Hossain is also serving as a Review Editor of Frontiers in Sensors journal. He has received a number of awards and honors including the 2016 Hitachi Social Innovation Award, 2014 ResMed Award, two Best Paper Awards, Australian Govt. IPRS scholarship, Norman I Price Award, Australian Award Scholarship and UGC small grant. He has authored 1 book, 25 journals and more than 35 conferences papers, and filed 2 provisional patents in the area of smart sensing and photonics. Career Highlights: •8+ years experience in designing, 3D modeling, and hardware prototyping of miniaturized sensor instruments and working in an interdisciplinary space for sensing in renowned photonics lab & start up •5+ years in establishment and operation of 3D printing & extrusion facilities with FDM and SLA printers •Fabrication, processing and characterization of polymer optical fibers •Experienced with pulsed 193 nm ArF exciplex and CW 244 nm Ar ion lasers facilities for FBG fabrications •1 year experience in characterization and testing of metal ion sensing in a renowned analytical chemistry lab •Analytical instruments: spectrofluorometer, UV/Vis spectrometers, FTIR, microscopes, laser beam profilers •Smartphone application (app) development in Android platform •Programming with embedded devices and microcontroller boards (Arduino), C++, MATLAB, MIT App Inventor •Simulation & Optimization tools: COMSOL, Optiwave, AutoCAD •Student supervision: PhD (2), MSc (3) and Honors (>25) •Publications: book (1), journals (24), conferences and workshops (>40) Editorial role and services •Guest Editor, Applied Sciences Special Issue on Photonic Devices and Applications •Review Editor, Frontiers in Sensors (Physical Sensors) •Organizing Secratary, 6th International Conference on Electrical Information and Communication Technology, 7-9 December, 2023 KUET, Khulna, Bangladesh •TPC Member, 2024 IEEE Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC) Jun. 30 - Jul 04, 2024, Melbourne, Australia •Assistant Organizing Secratary, 4th International Conference on Electrical Information and Communication Technology, 21-23 December, 2019, KUET, Khulna, Bangladesh