Professor Dr. Mohammad Shamsul Arefin is affiliated with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh. Earlier he was the head of the department. He received his Doctor of Engineering Degree in Information Engineering from Hiroshima University, Japan with support of the scholarship of MEXT, Japan. As a part of his doctoral research, Dr. Arefin was with IBM Yamato Software Laboratory, Japan. His research includes privacy preserving data publishing and mining, distributed and cloud computing, IoT and big data management, multilingual data management, semantic web, object oriented system development and IT for agriculture and environment.

He involved in different conferences, seminars and workshops as a keynote speaker, invited speaker, session chair, TPC Chair (ECCE 2017), Organizing Co-chair (ECCE 2019), Finance co-chair (NCICIT 2013) etc. He was the Editor in Chief of Computer Science and Engineering Research Journal (ISSN: 1990-4010) and is the Associate Editor of BCS journal of Computer and Information Technology (ISSN:2664-4592) and a reviewer of many international journals and conferences. Dr. Arefin has more than 100 referred publications in international journals, book series and conference proceedings. Dr. Arefin is a senior member of IEEE, Member of ACM, Fellow of IEB and BCS. Prof. Arefin involves /earlier involved in many professional activities such as Chairman of Bangladesh Computer Society (BCS) Chittagong Branch, Vice-President (Academic) of BCS National Committee and executive committee member of IEB Computer Engineering Division, Conference Coordinator of IEEE CS Bangladesh Chapter, Advisor, Bangladesh Robotic foundation. He was also a member of pre-feasibility study team of CUET IT Business Incubator, first campus based IT Business Incubator in Bangladesh. Dr. Arefin is an academic council member of CUET and Bangladesh Army International University of Science and Technology (BAIUST). He is / was an examination committee member of different universities including CUET, RUET, DUET, CU, KU, PSTU, NSTU, RSTU. He is also a selection committee member of CUET, BAIUST, PSTU, USTC, IIUC and FU. Dr. Arefin visited Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Bhutan, Singapore, South Korea, Egypt, India, Saudi Arabia and China for different professional and social activities.