ABDUL HANNAN CHOWDHURY, Ph.D. Vice Chancellor Primeasia University, Dhaka, Bangladesh E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 888-2-9821499-501, Ext. 105(O), Cell: +8801713063097 Work Address: Mailing Address: Star Tower, 15th Floor, 12 Kemal Ataturk Avenue House 3, Road 78, Apt 203 Banani, Dhaka 1213, Bangladesh Gulshan 2, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh EDUCATION: Post Doctoral Industrial Statistics, (Concentration: Quality Improvement) September 2002 University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Research: Modeling censored data for quality improvement from replicated design of experiments. Ph.D. Industrial Engineering, (Area: Production Management andApplied Statistics.) September 1999 Northeastern University, Boston, USA. Thesis: Analysis of censored life test data and robust design method for reliability improvement from highly fractionated experiments. M.S. Operations Research, (Area: Decision Science and Operations Research) June 1996 Northeastern University, Boston, USA. M.Sc. Statistics, First Class, 4th Position December 1987 Department of Statistics, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. B.Sc. (Hons.) Statistics, First Class, 6th Position, (Minor: Mathematics, Economics) July 1986 Department of Statistics, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. EMPLOYMENT: April 2017- Present Vice Chancellor, Primeasia University, Banani, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Formulating policies and implementing strategies for the university. Heading different committees formed by the of Private University ACT 2010 of Ministry of Education, Government of Bangladesh, University Grants Commission (UGC) Rules, and PAU Board of Trustrees (BOT). Overseeing Institutional Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) projects. Serving as the chair of the syndicate, academic council, administrative, staff/ faculty selection committees and member of BOT. Representing University in different national and international platforms. ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE: May 2014- April‟ 17 Pro Vice Chancellor, Eastern University, Dhamondi, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Formulating strategic plan, heading different committees assigned by the vice chancellor, oversee office of the student affairs, proctorial body, library, admission office, career services and international office, providing career placement guidelines, taking initiatives for overall education quality improvement, policy and strategies for admissions office, guiding resources improvement of the library, ensuring quality in research, teaching and publications, taking initiatives for image building, and assisting vice chancellor in any assigned task. Team Leader of One Asia Foundation funded course, Serving as the member of the syndicate, academic council, administrative, staff/ faculty selection committees and invited Member of BOT. Representing University in different national and international platforms. Sept‟16-May‟17 Dean (Acting), Faculty of Business Administration, Eastern University, Bangladesh. Responsibilities: Overall supervision and efficient functioning of the school, supervising BBA, MBA, & EMBA program directors & departmental heads, monitoring and mentoring fifty fulltime/ part time faculty members; recruiting fulltime/ part time faculty members. January 2014 Executive Director, External Relations, North South University, Bangladesh - May 2014 (This position was ranked above all Deans to directly report to the VC, NSU). Responsibilities: Taking initiatives to outreach foreign universities, international bodies, responsible for international matters including MOUs, international students and visitors, initiatives to formulate and implement a strategic plan and develop an assessment plan for the external office, and outreach to the corporate world, public and private organizations to promote university‟s interests globally. May ‟10-October‟13 Dean, School of Business , North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Responsibilities: Overall supervision and efficient functioning of the school, supervising BBA, MBA, & EMBA program directors & departmental heads, monitoring and mentoring more than hundred fifty fulltime/ part time faculty members; recruiting fulltime/ part time faculty members, supervising staffs; offering more than hundred courses (approx. 450 sections) in each semester, assigning courses, monitoring classes, organizing faculty search seminars, liaisoning top executives of the university, organizing professional trainings and workshops, assessing needs for the school, publishing brochure, editing and reviewing paper for the business school journal, promoting research facilities, guiding and advising over ten thousand students of the program. October „07-June 2012 Director, BBA Program, School of Business, North South University, Dhaka. Responsibilities: Overall supervision and efficient functioning of the program, mentoring students of the program, directing associate Directors, supervising more than sixty fulltime and twenty part time faculty members; recruiting fulltime/ part time faculty members, supervising staffs of the program; offering more than fifty courses (approx. 250 sections) for each semester, assigning courses, monitoring classes, organizing faculty search seminars, maintaining liaison with top executives of the university, organizing professional training and workshops, assessing needs for the school of business, publishing brochure, editing and reviewing paper for the business school journal, promoting research facilities, guiding and advising over six thousand students of the program. Developing curriculum and evaluating program and committee services. October 2005 Director, Department of Career and Professional Development Services, (CPDS), - March 2012 North South University, Bangladesh. Responsibilities: Overall supervision of CPDS and efficient functioning of the department, providing internship and job placement of the students; holding training, workshops and seminars, organizing conferences, maintaining vital contact with top corporates of the country; organizing professional training for faculty/ staff, workshops for corporates and updating alumni profile. Organizing national career fair and fund raising. ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE: April „08- May „14 Professor, School of Business, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Taught business statistics, operations management, Total quality management and quantitative methods classes in both the MBA and EMBA programs. Supervising under graduate and graduate intern students. Conducting researches on Product/process quality and reliability Improvement, Service Quality, Forecasting, Operations Management, TQM and Social Business. May „05- March „08 Associate Professor, School of Business, North South University, Bangladesh. Taught business statistics, operations management, Total quality management and quantitative methods classes in both the MBA and EMBA programs. Taught introduction to statistics class in the BBA program. Supervised under graduate and graduate intern students. September 2002 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Windsor, Canada. - April 2005 Taught statistics for the sciences course to the undergraduate classes. Odette School of Business, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Taught business data analysis, statistical quality control, operations management, decision modeling, distance operations management courses to the undergraduate business students. Taught management science modeling, production management course to the regular MBA class. Centre for Executive Education, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Taught quantitative analysis for management course to the Executive MBA for managers and professionals‟ class during winter 2003. American Society for Quality, Quality Certification Program. St. Clair College, Windsor, Canada. Taught advanced statistical methods class in the QCP program during winter 2005. September 2001 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical - September 2002 Sciences (PIMS), Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Conducted research on industrial experiments with censored response data under financial support of the PIMS, Nortel Networks, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the StatCAR lab of the University of Calgary. September 1999 Lecturer of Quantitative Methods, Department of Management Sciences, - September 2001 College of Business Administration, Northeastern University, USA Taught Business Statistics, Operations Management and Service Operations Management courses. Summer 2000 Lecturer, (Part-time), Dept. of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (MIME), College of Engineering, Northeastern University, USA Taught undergraduate Probability Analysis for Engineers course. September 1993 Teaching/Research Assistant, Dept. of MIME, Northeastern University, USA - September, 1999 Taught “Probabilistic Analysis for Engineers,” Winter, „97, “Statistics,” Fall, „97, “Engineering Statistics,” Spring, ‟98, “Probability & Statistics,” Summer, ‟98, “Statistics,” Winter, ‟99 courses. Assisted graduate level courses (Design of Experiments, Statistical Quality Control, Applied Statistics, Basic Probability, Engineering Economics, Reliability Analysis and Testing). Demonstrated Turbo SPC/SQC and other statistical software to the graduate/undergraduate students. April 1994 Software Editor, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., Boston, MA, USA. - October 1994 Edited three Mathematics books written by Keedy/Bittigner (Intermediate Algebra, Basic Mathematics and Introductory Algebra)