Personal Profile

Professor A.Y.M. Atiquil Islam is a Full Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the Joint Education Institute of Zhejiang Normal University and the University of Kansas, based at Zhejiang Normal University, and is also affiliated with the China–Africa Regional Center for Digital Education Cooperation. He additionally serves as Honorary Chair Professor at the School of Teacher Education, Jiangsu University, and as an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Educational Information Technology, East China Normal University. Prior to these appointments, Professor Islam was the Director of the International Graduate Program in Educational Technology at East China Normal University. He earned a multidisciplinary PhD by integrating two faculties—Education and Computer Science & Information Technology—at the University of Malaya. Throughout his academic life, various scholarships he has been awarded certainly have been the most significant instigators of his achievements. He received the Graduation on Time (GOT 2015) Award from the University of Malaya and honorarium for finishing his PhD in less than three years. 

To integrate innovative ideas logically, Professor Islam has proposed two types of approaches: the theoretical approach and the methodological approach. The theoretical approach is to develop the theory or model where the research ideas will be logically integrated within a framework. The methodological approach is to validate the theory or model to confirm whether the ideas have been appropriately and logically incorporated within a structure which can provide expected outcomes. Applying theoretical and methodological approaches, in his field of specialization, he developed and validated three models, namely, the Technology Adoption and Gratification (TAG) Model, the Technology Satisfaction Model (TSM) and the Online Database Adoption and Satisfaction (ODAS) Model. These models have been frequently applied by researchers to conduct their studies around the world. His high-quality publications are a witness to these models’ ability to solve the theoretical and practical problems of multiple disciplines.

Professor Islam has had almost 22 years of experience in academia, industry and business. With regard to leadership, he has proven his abilities as a chief executive in several business and social organizations from 2002 to 2007. Leading from the front, he has been conducting workshops on the application of Structural Equation Modeling and the Rasch Measurement Model since 2010. Furthermore, Professor Islam has presented many papers at international conferences (Germany, Japan, Singapore, China (Hong Kong & Taiwan), Indonesia and Malaysia) and published journal articles, books and chapters. He has also delivered keynote addresses, speeches, and guest lectures many times in the past seven years.

Professor Islam has published in the British Journal of Educational Technology, Instructional Science, Educational Technology Research and Development, Journal of Information Science, Educational Psychology, Interactive Learning Environments, Online Information Review, and International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction. He serves as the Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator of local and international research grants totaling over a million yuan. He has published nearly 120 papers in first-class international journals and conferences. One of his articles was listed as a “Highly Cited Paper” in Essential Science Indicators (ESI) in 2022, 2023 & 2024. Professor Islam has also written two books in the last two years, both published by Taylor & Francis Group: The Technology Adoption and Gratification (TAG) Model and Its Application and Applying the Rasch Model and Structural Equation Modeling to Higher Education. 

Professor Islam has international collaboration with the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, Australia, Italy, United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, the Philippines, Pakistan, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Iraq, Bangladesh and Nigeria. Professor Islam founded the world-leading book series, Assessment of Educational Technology (AET), in 2024 with Routledge Taylor & Francis Group which he continues to oversee as Lead Editor. He is an Editorial Board Member of the British Journal of Educational Technology (Q1, SSCI, 2024 IF=8.1), Associate Editor of the Educational Technology & Society (Q1, SSCI, 2024 IF=6.0), Editor of Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (Q1, SSCI, 2024 IF=3.6), Executive Editor of the International Journal of Smart Technology and Learning, Editor of Cogent Education (ESCI & Scopus), and Article Editor of SAGE Open (Q1, SSCI, 2024 IF=2.0). He is also a reviewer and technical committee member of many international conferences and journals. He is (2020 2024) the member of the Psychometric Society and British Educational Research Association (BERA 2021). His research interests are in the arena of Assessment of Educational Technology, Artificial Intelligence in Education, Artificial Intelligence in STEM Education, Artificial Intelligence in Technical and Vocational Education, Quantitative Modeling, ICT in Higher Education, Human Computer Interaction, Information Science, Metaverse, New Social Media Analysis and Virtual Reality.