Mohammad A. Karim is Vice-President for Research of ODU. He serves on the Governor's Virginia Research and Technology Advisory Commission (VRTAC), and on the board of the Southern Universities Research Association (SURA). He is North American Editor of Optics and Laser Technology, an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions of Education, and a Member of the Editorial Board of Microwave and Optical Technology Letters. He serves as chair of the international program committee of the International Conference on Computers and Information Technology (ICCIT), and as technical program chair of International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Technology &
Automation (IETA).
Dr. Karim is an elected fellow of the Optical Society of America, the Society of Photo-Instrumentation Engineers, the Institute of Physics , the Institution of Engineering & Technology, and the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences. He is author of 8 books, over 325 research papers, and 6 book chapters and has served as guest editor of 16 journal special issues. The list of his research sponsors include Office of Naval Research, National Science Foundation, US Air Force, Naval Research Laboratory, US Army, NASA, US Department of Education, Ohio Aerospace Institute, US Department of Defense, and Avionics Laboratory of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. He served as research mentor of over 55 MS/PhD students during his career.
Prior to joining ODU, Mohammad Karim served as Dean of Engineering at the City College of New York of the City University of New York. He received his BS Honors degree in physics from the University of Dacca, Bangladesh, in 1976, and MS in physics, MS in electrical engineering, and Ph.D. in electrical engineering degrees from the University of Alabama respectively in 1978, 1979, and 1981.
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