Prof. Dr. Md. Ashraful Hoque

Vice-Chancellor of the University

Prof. Dr. Md. Ashraful Hoque was born in Rangpur, a northern city of Bangladesh. He did his Bachelor from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Bangladesh in 1986 under the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He obtained his Masters and Ph.D. in 1993 and in 1996 respectively, from Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada under CIDA scholarship program. He has an excellent academic background. He obtained all through first classes with outstanding achievement in SSC and HSC Examinations. He stood First in HSC exam and Fifth in   the SSC exam in combined merit list of Board of Rajshahi. He obtained his Masters and Ph.D. degree with an academic excellence securing his position in Dean’s award list in 1993 and 1996 respectively. 

He entered his professional career as a Lecturer at Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET) in 1986 and continued there till 2006. He served RUET in different capacities and became Professor in 2005. Later, he shifted his career as a Professor in the Department of EEE at Islamic University of Technology in 2007. During his career, he worked in different administrative positions such as, Provost of Female Residence Hall, Head, Research Extension, Advisory Services and Publications (REASP), Head of the Department of EEE and Dean of the faculty of Engineering and Technology in Islamic University of Technology (IUT) of OIC. Besides, he worked as the Chairman of different committees like Admission Committee, Internal Rules and Regulations Review Committee, Recruitment and Promotion Committee, etc. at IUT. Prior to his joining as Vice-Chancellor of AUST he served as Pro Vice-Chancellor (In-charge) of IUT.

Throughout his career, he worked as an Expert member in the various selection Boards for the recruitment of faculty members of CUET, DUET, JUST. At present he is working as an expert member of Pabna University of Science and Technology, Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur. He is also working as the expert technical member in the different committees of National University of Bangladesh.

In his academic career, he supervised number of Masters and several Ph.D. students. He also worked as the external member of number of Ph.D. Examination Boards at BUET, RUET and KUET. He has published more than 100 research papers including 41 International Journal papers and 59 Conference Proceedings. He worked as the organizing chair, session chair, keynote speaker, paper reviewer, etc. in various national & international seminars, workshops, conferences. His area of research interest is power converters and application of artificial intelligence in motor drives. He is also involved in the research of the applications of power electronics in renewable energy.