# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/muhammed-zafar-iqbal
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:31:00.457Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/muhammed-zafar-iqbal"
name: "Muhammed Zafar Iqbal"
slug: "muhammed-zafar-iqbal"
description: "Muhammed Zafar Iqbal is a Bangladeshi author, physicist, activist, former professor of computer science and engineering, and former head of the department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST). He achieved his PhD from University of Washington. After working 18 years as a scientist at California Institute of Technology and Bell Communications Research, he returned to Bangladesh and joined Shahjalal University of Science and Technology as a professor of Computer Science and Engineering. He retired from his teaching profession in October 2018."
tagline: "Bangladeshi scientist and writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Muhammed_Zafar_Iqbal_by_NKS(3).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1952-12-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.18
  momentum:             2.450043440486533
  historical:           9.051588
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4465031/"
    handle:    "nm4465031"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump