Prof. Dr. Engr. Mohammad Rezwan Khan

Prof. M. Rezwan Khan completed his B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 1980 and joined Dept. of EEE, BUET as a faculty member. He then obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from University College London, UK in 1982 and 1986 respectively. He served BUET till 2005 and joined the United International University (UIU) as the Vice Chancellor. He served as the VC of UIU from 2005 -2017. He is presently serving as a Professor Emeritus and the Executive Director of Institute for Advanced Research (IAR) at the United International University (UIU), Bangladesh. He has recently been appointed as the Chairman of Power Grid Bangladesh PLC.

Prof. Khan has been working on renewable energy, energy efficiency and energy harvesting for last 25 years. He served as the Chairman of the Technical Standard Committee of Infrastructure Development Company Limited (IDCOL) from 2003 to 2024, the largest financial organization in Bangladesh in Renewable energy sector. Under his technical guidance IDCOL financed more than 5 million solar home systems in Bangladesh, the largest solar home system program in the world. IDCOL also funded solar irrigation systems, roof top solar for industries and large-scale grid integrated solar PV systems.

So far the renewable energy related R&D is concerned, he has guided a number of nationally and internationally funded projects on solar ferry boat, solar refrigeration, PV integrated grid connected cooking system etc. He received the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences Gold Medal in 2005 for his outstanding contribution in the field of science and technology in Bangladesh. Prof. Khan is a senior Member of IEEE and a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE- IAS. As a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE he delivered lectures in USA, Singapore, Malaysia and India and his topic was ‘DC Power System: The Future of the Power System’. He has more than 100 research publications on topics including renewable energy, power electronics, signal processing and thin film devices.