Teaching is Dr. Tareef Hayat Khan's passion. He loves to teach. He has decided to become a teacher very early in his life. Teaching is in his blood too. His mother was a teacher in Bangla Literature. Besides, from the musical family that he belongs, teaching music was part of their lives. So, be it architecture, music, or sports, Tareef always had the zeal to teach.
He started his academic career with Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology (AUST), in Dhaka in 1996 in the department of Architecture. After doctoral degree, he started teaching in Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HKPolyU), and also worked as visiting lecturer in the University of Hong Kong (HKU), and at Zheijiang University in Hang Zhou, China. Moving to Malaysia, he started to teach in the department of Architecture in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), in Johor Bahru.
Besides teaching at undergraduate level, he has also been engaged in teaching at post graduate levels. Besides he is also actively supervising Master and PhD students.
