Riazul Islam is an architect and digital heritage specialist. He lectures at the Royal Institute of Traditional Arts, Riyadh, and previously held an adjunct lectureship at the Korea National University of Cultural Heritage. His research applies terrestrial laser scanning and UAV photogrammetry to the documentation of heritage objects and architectural sites, and examines how the resulting datasets can be interpreted through computational and AI-assisted methods. He also works on translating survey data into immersive formats, including rendered video, virtual reality tours and playable heritage games.