Dr. Abu Bakar Md. Ismail has been working as a Professor in the department of Applied Physics & Electronic Engineering, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh from 2007. He received his Ph.D degree from the University of Saga, Japan in 1998 under Japanese Government Scholarship. Dr. Ismail received  "Chancellor's Award", the highest award for academic excellence in Bangladesh in 1988. He was a "Regular Associate" of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics.  Dr. Ismail is very passionate about doing applicable research. His field of research includes Materials development for Optoelectronics, Sensors and Instrumentations, Development of green technology, etc.  At present Dr. Ismail has been working for the extraction of Silicon in a low-energy and low-CO2 emission process from the sand of the famous Padma river of Bangladesh, and application of the extracted Silicon for the harvesting the solar energy. He has supervised many Ph.D and M.Sc researches and has published a good number of articles in reputed journals. He has attended and presented in numerous conferences, symposiums and workshops in home and abroad. Teaching is another passion of Dr. Ismail. He has taught in home and abroad with reputation. He has held many responsible positions like the Dean of the faculty of Engineering, the Chairman of the department and the Director of the Central Science Laboratory of the University of Rajshahi.