Md. Shahidur Rashid Bhuiyan

Md. Shahidur Rashid Bhuiyan is a Bangladeshi academic and vice-chancellor of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University. He was a professor of the Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding. He is the former pro-vice-chancellor of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University.

Early life
Bhuiyan was born in 1956 in Belabo Upazila, Narsingdi District, East Pakistan, Pakistan. He completed his undergrad in agriculture at the Bangladesh Agricultural University in 1978. He completed his masters on genetics and plant breeding at the Bangladesh Agricultural University in 1979.

Career
Bhuiyan joined the Bangladesh Agricultural Institute (upgrade and renamed to Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University in 2001) in 1983 as a lecturer. Bangla Academy published his book on plant breeding in 1992.

In 2009, Bhuiyan wrote Genetically Modified Foshol Bartaman O Bhobishshot, one of the few books on Genetically modified organism food production in Bengali. He wrote PushpaKotha" (Flowers Fable) on flowers.

In July 2012, Bhuiyan was appointed pro vice-chancellor of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University under vice-chancellor Mohammad Shadat Ullah. He published a book on food nutrition, Khadda O Pushti Bhabna, in 2014. From 2017 to 2018, he was a managing committee member of the Plant Breeding and Genetics Society of Bangladesh.

Bhuiyan was appointed the vice-chancellor of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University in November 2020. He replaced Kamal Uddin Ahmed who retired in August. The Agriculture and Engineering Technology Development Society of Kashmir awarded him the Life Time Achievement Award in 2023. He is the president of Bangladesh Biology Olympiad.