Jamilur Reza Choudhury

Jamilur Reza Choudhury
Choudhury in 2013
Born	(1943-11-15) 15 November 1943 (age 73) Sylhet, Bengal Presidency, British India
Nationality	Bangladeshi
Alma mater	Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, University of Southampton
Known for	Academics, research, civil engineering, former adviser to Caretaker Government of Bangladesh

Jamilur Reza Choudhury (born 15 November 1943) is a Bangladeshi civil engineer, professor, researcher, and education advocate. He is a former Adviser (Minister) to Caretaker Government of Bangladesh (April–June 1996). He is the vice chancellor of University of Asia Pacific. He is also the president of Bangladesh Mathematical Olympiad Committee from 2003. He was awarded Ekushey Padak by the Government of Bangladesh in the category of science and technology in 2017.

Choudhury was born in Sylhet (during British colonial rule) on 15 November 1943. His father, Abid Reza Choudhury (1905–1991), was a renowned civil engineer who had migrated to Dhaka in 1952 (after the Partition of India) from Rangauty, a rural area of Hailakandi (Assam, India). Abid was the first Muslim to graduate from Bengal Engineering and Science University, in 1929 (notable due to systematic marginalization and discrimination against Muslims in the region in educational and economic advancement common in British India). His mother, Hayatun Nessa Choudhury (née Laskor) (1922–2010) was a homemaker, from the Nitainagar area of Hailakandi. Jamilur is the middle child of five siblings.

Choudhury began school in 1950 (age 6) at the Mymensingh Zilla School. After his family moved to Dhaka from Mymensingh in 1952, he transferred to Nawabpur Government High School, and transferred once more to a private Catholic school, St Gregory's High School, in 1953. Jamilur attended Dhaka College from 1957–1959 and earned his Bachelor of Science Degree (Civil Engineering) from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 1963. Upon graduation from BUET (First Class First with Honours), he became a lecturer in the Civil Engineering Department that same year. He earned a Masters of Science in Engineering Degree (advanced structural engineering) in 1965 and a PhD in structural engineering in 1968, both at University of Southampton.