Department of Computer Science & Engineering (CSE)

CONTACT INFORMATION

Name: Md Rashid Ul Islam

Email:  rashid@cse.mist.ac.bd

Room No: 314, 3^rd Floor, Faculty of Electrical & Computer Engineering (FECE) Tower – 3, MIST.

Mirpur Cantonment, Dhaka-1216, Bangladesh.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Lecturer, Department of CSE, Military Institute of Science & Technology (MIST), Mirpur Cantonment, Dhaka -1216, Bangladesh

          Duration: April 2024 – Present

• Industrial Attachment Trainee, Grameenphone Ltd

                        Duration: January 2023 – February 2023

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering (4 years)
  • Military Institute of Science & Technology

AWARDS/ HONORS

• First Position in virtual University Rover Challenge (URC) 2021, organized by the Mars Society, USA
• 2^nd Runners up in Anatolian Rover Challenge (ARC) 2022, Istanbul, Turkiye
• 5^th Position in Anatolian Rover Challenge (ARC) 2022, Ankara, Turkiye
• 1^st Place in Application Category in Medical Robotics Challenge for Contagious Disease 2020 organized by UK-RAS with UVC Purge
• 1^st position both in Project Showcasing and Poster Presentation in IUT Esonance 2023 with Team Anchor Eye
• 2^nd position in Project Showcasing in BUET Robo Carnival 2024 with Team Anchor Eye
• 5^th Place at 12th National Undergraduate Mathematics Olympiad 2021 in Dhaka North Region
• 5^th Place at Independence Day Programming Contest 2023
• 50^th place in MIST LEETCON 2023 HACKMEIFYOUCAN
• Achieved Dean’s List honors in the First, Second, Third, and Final year of B.Sc
• Finalist at BEAR Summit 2025 in Robotics Demo Digital Display Segment
• 14^th Place at University Rover Challenge 2025, Utah, USA

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

• • Adaptive User Interface for Mobile Banking Apps: Enhancing UX Through Machine Learning
  • Anchor Eye: A Computer Vision and AI-Based Cost Effective Pisciculture Monitoring and Growth Prediction Robot
  • Social Media Business Analyst: The system identifies underserved products on social media, suggesting business opportunities, locations, and target demographics to users
  • Human Computer Interaction Project: Evaluating Usability and Redesigning of Agriculture Mobile Applications in Bangladesh for Illiterate and Semi-Literate People
  • Dengue Vision: An AI-powered Outbreak Oracle in Perspective of Bangladesh
  • Metro Miracle: Used Blender to create an animation video of how Metro Rail symbolizes not only a swift and efficient travel experience but also the evolving urban mobility landscape in Bangladesh, offering a glimpse into the positive impacts of infrastructure development on daily life
  • Automatic Watering System: Automatic Watering System is a gardening tool that includes a temperature and humidity sensor, soil moisture level sensor, and a rain sensor that detects when a plant needs water and automatically lets water through
  • MIST Research Hub:  MIST Research Hub is an archive of the thesis and research papers of MIST undergrad and postgrad students. It acts as a portal for research enthusiasts to connect
  • MIST Cafeteria Management System: A dynamic digital management system for MIST Cafeteria to provide better service
  • Ghuro Bangladesh: A frontend project which is based on the map of Bangladesh and selecting a district will get you to the details about all the tourist and historical places of that district

NON-ACADEMIC PROJECTS

• • UVC Purge: A Novel Cost-Effective Disinfection Robot for Combating COVID-19 Pandemic
  • Heat map Generation from Feet Pressure: An IOT-based project to monitor the feet pressure distribution of a person using pressure Sensors integrated with shoes
  • MIST CSE Archive: A fully responsive website for MIST CSE department archive of thesis, projects, and achievements

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Research Domain: Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Human-Computer Interaction & IoT.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Language                         C/C++, Python, Java, JavaScript, Assembly

Database                                                  Oracle, Firebase, MySQL

Tools                                                         Android Studio, Google Collab, Visual Studio,

                                                                  CodeBlocks, MATLAB, Eclipse, Git, Blender,

      OpenGL

Simulator                                                 Cisco Packet Tracer, Circuit Maker

Scripting & Modelling                           HTML, Shell Script, LATEX

Graphics                                                  OpenGL, Blender

PUBLICATIONS

1. 1. 1. R. Islam, Akib Zaman, and others. (2022). “UVC-PURGE: A Novel Cost-Effective Disinfection Robot for Combating COVID-19 Pandemic”. In: IEEE ACCESS 10, pp. 37613–37634. doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3163243

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

                        Theory Courses:

1. CSE 281: Introduction to Computer Programming
2. CSE 291: Computer Programming Techniques
3. CSE 105: Structured Programming Language
4. CSE 305: Microprocessors, Micro-Controllers and Assembly Language

Sessional Courses:

1. CSE 282: Introduction to Computer Programming Sessional
2. CSE 292: Computer Programming Techniques Sessional
3. CSE 106: Structured Programming Language Sessional
4. CSE 220: Object Oriented Programming Sessional-II
5. EECE 280:Digital Electronics and Pulse Techniques Sessional
6. CSE 278: Computer Programming and Computations Sessional
7. CSE 306: Microprocessors, Micro-Controllers and Assembly Language Sessional