Syed Akhter Hossain


Syed Akhter Hossain is a computer scientist, educator, columnist and technology consultant from Bangladesh. Currently he is a professor and head of Computer Science and Engineering department at Daffodil International University.

Birth and education

He was born in Jessore on 21 January 1969.

Others activities

Hossain is a contest director of ACM-ICPC Dhaka Regionals 2007, 2012 and Chief Judge of National Collegiate Programming Contest in Bangladesh 2015 and Contest Director of NCPC 2014. He is also the Chief Judge of ACM ICPC Dhaka Site 2015 and one of the pioneers of spreading programming education in Bangladesh by organising Computer Science Education Week and NGPC.
He is also an organising committee member of ICCIT at 2013, and hold the chair on 2014.
He is also taking steps to enrich Bengali language content.

Honors and awards