But, a number of readers at that time felt that the story was based on a foreign story. While studying in the Dhaka University Iqbal's story Copotronic Bhalobasa was published in a local magazine. Iqbal wrote his first short story at the age of seven. Iqbal started writing stories from a very early age. He left the institute in 1994 and joined the faculty of the Department of CSE of SUST. He then joined Bell Communications Research (Bellcore), a separate corporation from the Bell Labs (now Telcordia Technologies), as a Research Scientist. His younger brother, Ahsan Habib, is the editor of the satirical magazine, Unmad and one of the most reknowned cartoonist of Bangladesh.Īfter obtaining PhD degree, Iqbal worked as a post-doctoral researcher at California Institute of Technology (CalTech) from 1983 to 1988. Humayun died after a nine-month struggle against colorectal cancer on the 19 July 2012. Iqbal's elder brother, Humayun Ahmed, was the most popular author and film-maker of Bangladesh since its independence. Yeshim translated the book Amar Bondhu Rashed (Rashed, My Friend) written by her father. They have two children - son Nabil and daughter Yeshim. Yasmeen is the Dean of the Life Science Department, Head of the Physics Department, Provost of the Shohid Janoni Jahanara Imam Hall and a researcher at SUST. In the same year Iqbal went to University of Washington to obtain his PhD and earned the degree in 1982. He earned his BSc in Physics from Dhaka University in 1976. Iqbal passed SSC exam from Bogra Zilla School in 1968 and HSC exam from Dhaka College in 1970. On, during the liberation war of Bangladesh, the Pakistan's invading army captured his father and killed him brutally in the bank of a river. He wrote his first science fiction work at the age of seven. Zafar Iqbal was encouraged by his father for writing at an early life. In his childhood, he traveled various part of Bangladesh, because of his father's transferring job. His father, Foyzur Rahman Ahmed, was a police officer. Iqbal was born on 23 December 1952 in Sylhet. Before that, Iqbal worked as a research scientist in Bell Communication Research for six years until 1994. He is a professor of Computer Science & Engineering at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST). Muhammed Zafar Iqbal (Bengali: মুহম্মদ জাফর ইকবাল) is one of the most famous Bangladeshi author of Science-Fiction and Children's Literature ever to grace the Bengali literary community since the country's independence in 1971.

যারা বায়োবট by Muhammed Zafar Iqbal