Muhammed Zafar Iqbal is a Bangladeshi author of science fiction and children's literature. He is a professor of computer science and engineeringand also head of the department of electrical and electronics engineering at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology . He was born on 23 December 1952 in Sylhet. His father, Faizur Rahman Ahmed, was a police officer. His mother is Ayesha Akhter Khatun. In his childhood, he traveled various parts of Bangladesh because of his father's transferring job. Iqbal was encouraged to write by his father in early life. Iqbal passed SSC exam from Bogra Zilla School in 1968 and HSC exam from Dhaka College in 1970. He earned his BSc in physics from Dhaka University in 1976. In the same year Iqbal went to University of Washington to obtain his PhD and earned the degree in 1982. He married Yasmeen Haque in 1978.She is currently the Dean of the Life Science Department and Head of the department of Physics at SUST.They have two children – son Nabil and daughter Yeshim. Iqbal's elder brother,Humayun Ahmed was a writer and filmmaker. His younger brother, Ahsan Habib, is the editor of the satirical magazine, Unmad and a cartoonist. After obtaining his PhD degree, Iqbal worked as a post-doctoral researcher at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) from 1983 to 1988. He then joinedBell Communications Research (Bellcore), a separate corporation from the Bell Labs (now Telcordia Technologies), as aresearch scientist. He left the institute in 1994. Upon returning to Bangladesh he joined the faculty of the CSE department at SUST. Later he became the head of the EEE department. On 26 November 2013, Iqbal and his wife Professor Yasmeen Haque applied for resignation soon after the university authority had postponed the combined admission test for the SUST and Jessore Science & Technology University However they withdrew their resignation letters on the next day after the authority decided to go on with holding combined admission tests. He also serves as the Director of BTCL and Vice President of Bangladesh Mathematical Olympiad committee. Iqbal played a leading role in founding
Bangladesh Mathematical Olympiad and popularized mathematics among Bangladeshi youths at local and international level. In 2011 he won Rotary SEED Award for his contribution in the field of education.
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