Mohammad Ataul Karim

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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. Ataul Karim is ranked amongst the top 50 researchers who contributed most to Applied Optics in its 50-year history.^[1][2] Ataul Karim served as provost, executive vice chancellor and chief operating officer ^[3][4][5][6] of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth between june 2013-2020, and was for 9 years the first Vice President for Research^[7] of Old Dominion University (ODU) in Norfolk, Virginia.