On 26 November 2013, Iqbal and his wife professor Haque applied for resignation soon after the university authority had postponed the combined admission test for the SUST and Jashore University of Science Technology. In 2011, he won the Rotary SEED Award for his contribution in the field of education. He played a leading role in founding the Bangladesh Mathematical Olympiad and popularized mathematics among Bangladeshi youths at local and international level.

Iqbal serves as the vice president of Bangladesh Mathematical Olympiad committee. Upon returning to Bangladesh, Iqbal joined the faculty of the CSE department at SUST. He then joined Bell Communications Research (Bellcore), a separate corporation from the Bell Labs (now Telcordia Technologies), as a research scientist. Career Academic Īfter obtaining his PhD degree, Iqbal worked as a post-doctoral researcher at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) from 1983 to 1988 (mainly on Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics). He earned his bachelor's and master's in physics from the University of Dhaka in 1976 and then went to the University of Washington to earn his Ph.D. Iqbal passed the SSC exam from Bogra Zilla School in 1968 and the HSC exam from Dhaka College in 1970. He has three sisters - Sufia Haider, Momtaz Shahid and Rukhsana Ahmed. His younger brother, Ahsan Habib, is a cartoonist who is serving as the editor of the satirical magazine, Unmad. His elder brother, Humayun Ahmed, was a prominent writer and filmmaker. He spent his childhood in different parts of Bangladesh because of the transferring nature of his father's job.

His father, Faizur Rahman Ahmed, was a police officer who was killed in the Liberation War of Bangladesh. Muhammed Zafar Iqbal was born on 23 December 1952 in Sylhet of the then East Pakistan.

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