Satya Prasad Majumder

Satya Prasad Majumder is a Bangladeshi academic. He is the current and the 14th Vice-chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.

Aside from teaching, Majumder also handled different administrative responsibilities. He was the head of the EEE Department in two consecutive years from June 2006 to May 2008. He has also completed his term as the Director of Student Welfare in 2018. He is currently the chairman in Communication Society of IEEE Bangladesh Section.

After 1991, Majumder rejoined Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and continued to serve it by taking various responsibilities. He particularly taught courses on telecommunications, namely Optical Communications, Analog and Digital Electronics, Advanced Electronics, Digital Communications, Satellite Communications, Electrical Circuits and Systems, Instrumentation & Control Systems, Power System Analysis, Electrical Machines, Laser Theory, Telecommunication Engineering, Advanced Telecommunication Engineering, Coding and Information Theory.

Majumder completed his B.Sc. in 1981 as an Electrical and Electronic Engineer, and later joined as a faculty of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. He was awarded the talent pool scholarship during his 4 years of honors for his excellent achievements as a student. He also completed his M.Sc. there in 1985, where his research was mainly focused on Microprocessor controlled telephone branch exchange. In 1987, he was awarded scholarship by the Government of India to enroll as a PhD student at the Indian institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur and continue his research work in Fiber Optics at Centre for Research and Training in Radar and Communications situated on that university. He also received funding from Italian National Research Council under Parma University to support his PhD on telecommunication project.