Certified Public Accountant, Professor (Researcher) – Institute of Sustainable Industries and Liveable Cities, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

Prof. Sardar M. N. Islam (Naz) is the Director of Decision Sciences and Modelling Program, Victoria University, Australia. He also serves as a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Artificial Intelligence to UnSri and AURAK. As Professor Sardar M. N. Islam has lived, studied, and worked in different countries and visited (extensively) different regions of the world for a long period, he adopts a global and humanistic approach in his research and academic works, and he has undertaken rigorous scientific studies of emerging issues of different disciplines of artificial intelligence, business analytics, digitalization, management science, machine learning, corporate governance, game theory, finance, economics, accounting, business, industrial engineering and law. His academic work has gained international acclaim in the above areas, resulting in many (1) Honours and Awards, (2) visiting or adjunct professorial appointments in different countries, (3) appointments in editorial roles of journals and (4) keynote speeches at international conferences in several countries. He has published 31 scholarly authored academic books in different disciplines. Each of these books makes significant scientific contributions to the literature. These books are published by prestigious publishers, and the majority of books are published in highly regarded book series. He has also published about 250 articles, including some of the top leading international journal articles in his specialized research areas.