Faculty Profile

Md. Sadakin Islam

Lecturer

Contact Information

  • Office Address: Department of Statistics, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet-3114, Bangladesh
  • Phone: +8801796878607,
  • Email: [email protected]

Biography

Md. Sadakin Islam was born in Naogaon in 1998. He passed SSC examination with GPA 5.00 from Rajshahi Government Model School and College in 2014. He continued his higher secondary education at Rajshahi Government City College, completing the HSC with also GPA 5.00 in 2016. He was admitted to the Department of Statistics at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), Sylhet in 2017, where he obtained both his B.Sc. (Honors) and M.S. (Thesis) degree with distinction—securing First position in both programs.

Prior to joining at Department of Statistics, SUST as a Lecturer on 15 June 2025, Mr. Islam accumulated years of experience in research, teaching, and statistical consultancy. He served as a Scientific Officer in the Agricultural Statistics Division at the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) from 30 June 2024 to 14 June 2025, where he co-led several projects. He also worked as a Research Assistant at icddr,b, and as an Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of Public Health, Leading University, Sylhet. In addition, he contributed to several multidisciplinary research initiatives at SUST and served as a Junior Statistician at Sigma Consultancy, where he specialized in statistical modeling and data analysis across sectors such as public health, education, and agriculture.

Mr. Islam is proficient in R, SPSS, SAS, STATA, and Python, and has provided training on data analysis techniques. He also has significant leadership experience, serving as the Founding General Secretary of the SUST Data Science Club and as President of the Varendra Association, SUST.

His research interests include Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Biostatistics, Time Series Analysis, and Statistical Modeling.

Education

  • MS (Thesis) in Statistics, Session: 2020-2021 (Held in 2023), Department of Statistics, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet-3114, Bangladesh
  • BSc (Honors) in Statistics, Session: 2016-2017 (Held in 2021), Department of Statistics, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet-3114, Bangladesh
  • HSC (2016), Rajshahi Government City College, Rajshahi, Bangladesh
  • SSC (2014), Rajshahi Government Model School and College, Rajshahi, Bangladesh

Research Interests

  • Machine Learning
  • Data Mining
  • Time Series Analysis
  • Statistical Modeling
  • Bayesian Inference

Previous Research Project

  • 1. July 2022-June 2024 Research Associate, Title of the Project: Climate Change Challenges in Bangladesh: A case study of flash flood 2022 in Sylhet Division. Funded by: SUST Research Centre, Sylhet-3114.
  • 2. July, 2021 to June, 2023 Research Assistant, Title of the Project: Covid-19 Impacts on Human Security in Bangladesh. Funded by: SUST Research Centre, Sylhet-3114.
  • 3. July, 2020 to June, 2022 Research Assistant, Title of the Project: Capital Formation through Expatriate’s Remittances: A Study on Investment in Education; Funded by: SUST Research Centre, Sylhet-3114.

External Affiliations

  • Assistant Proctor (July, 2025 - till date), Shahjalal University of Science & Technology, Sylhet-3114.
  • Executive Committee Member, Shahjalal University Statistics Department Alumni Association (SUSDAA)

Journal Publications

  • 1. Rahman, S. A., Kashem, A., & Islam, M. S. (2024). COVID-19 Impacts on Human Security in Bangladesh. International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, VIII(V), 129–146. https://doi.org/10.47772/ijriss.2024.805012. (2024)

Conference

  • 1. Impact of Expatriate’s Remittances on Children’s Hazard of Leaving School in Bangladesh: Application of AFT Models (2024)
  • 2. Application of the Bayesian Accelerated Failure Time Models to Evaluate the Impact of Expatriate’s Remittances on School Dropout in Bangladesh (2024)
  • 3. Impact of international migration on hazard of children’s drop-out from schooling in Bangladesh (2021)

Teaching

  • Basic Statistics in Research (BNG 2022-23)
  • Basic Statistics in Research Lab (BNG 2022-23)
  • Basic Statistics and Probability Lab (PHY 2022-23)

Awards & Recognition

  • National Science and Technology (NST) Fellowship 2022-23, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh.
  • Cumulative MS (with thesis) Result, SUST, (Holding 1st position)
  • Cumulative B. Sc. Result, SUST, (Holding 1st position)
  • Trust Scholarship: Tuhofa-Gousul Hossain
  • SUST Merit Grand Academic Results (4 times)
  • Zilla Parishad Scholarship, 2017 (Naogaon Zilla)
  • Secondary and Higher Education Scholarship 2023