Arif-Ul-Islam is working as professor in department of Statistics & Operations Research in Women’s College at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh (U.P.), and India. He has more than thirty years of teaching experience. He received his doctorate degree from A.M.U. in 1978. His area of research is Stochastic Process and Reliability Theory. He received his M.Sc. & B.Sc. degree in 1974 and 1972 respectively from same university. He is Gold Medalist in M.Sc.

He has taught at five different Universities in India and abroad. He initiated his career at AMU Aligarh, as Lecturer in 1978. He has taught at University of Kashmir-India, Basrah University-Iraq, Gharyonus University Banghazi-Libya and Gonder University-Ethopia. He has worked as University Grant Commission research associate. He is member of Indian Science Congress and Indian Statistical Association. He has published more than twenty papers in national and international journals of statistics in the field of reliability and life testing. Along with this he has also developed a reliability model for life testing, widely accepted and cited by many researchers in the field of reliability theory. His reliability model is known as Mukherji-Islam failure model. He has guided many Ph.D. students and M.Phil. students, in upcoming area of Accelerated life testing & Software Reliability. Currently he is supervising five scholars in his department. Besides above, he is a great philosopher and debater.