Mohammad Ataul Karim (Bengali: মোহাম্মদ আতাউল করিম; born 4 May 1953) is a Bangladeshi American scientist and higher education administrator, with expertise in electro-optical systems, optical computing, and pattern recognition.
[citation needed] A 2004 government of Bangladesh report[9] and a number of books in Bengali, including Bangladesher Shera Bigyani (Hitler A. Halim, Shikor, 2004), Medhabi Manusher Golpo (Mohammad Kaykobad, Annyaprokash, 2005), "Medhabi O Binoyi Manusher Golpo" (Mohammad Kaykobad, "Shore O", 2020), and "Tarae Tarae Khochito" (Fardin Munir and Munir Hasan, "Odomya Prokash", 2022) as well as Star Insight, cite him as an example of the outstanding success of the Bangladeshi diaspora.
[10] His efforts to correct illegal practices that otherwise discriminated against international graduate students were featured by the Chronicle of Higher Education,[11] The Wall Street Journal in "Hidden Costs of a Brain Gain"[12] and in turn by David Heenan in his book "Flight Capital: The Alarming Exodus of America's Best And Brightest".
[14][15] Since 2009, with assistance of 5 teams of guest editors, Ataul Karim produced 20 journal special issues that featured works of Bangladesh-based researchers in the fields of communications,[16] computing,[17] multimedia,[18] networks,[19] and software.
[20] His edited book on "Technical Challenges and Design Issues in Bangla Language Processing" [21] provides a state-of-the-art platform for information communication technology research and development that is of significance to nearly 260 million Bengali-speaking people who live in Bangladesh, India and in diaspora in the Middle East, Europe, and the US.