CCDS Alumni(senior project student) Sadia Khan Receives Fully Funded Scholarship for Master’s at Uppsala
Many congratulations to CCDS alumni (senior project student) Sadia Khan for getting into prestogious fully funded
Uppsala University Global Scholarship (awarded to top 2% of applicants)
for Master’s Programme in Computer Science – Computer Science. She has started her journey in this Fall.
Group photo of CSE, IUB faculty members who are part of CCDS
From left to right: Dr Ashraful Islam (Assistant Prof), Asif Mahmud (Lecturer), Dr Md Rashedur Rahman (Assistant Prof), Dr Saadia Binte Alam (Associate Prof), Dr. Farhana Sarker (Associate Prof), Dr Ashraful Amin (Prof), Dr Amin Ahsan Ali (Prof), Dr AKM Mahbubur Rahman (Associate Prof), Sanzar Alam (Lecturer).
We welcome the new CSE faculty members joining CCDS. Here is a brief introduction:
Dr. Saadia Binte Alam’s research area of interest is medical image and signal processing and machine learning. She is the current Head of the department of CSE, IUB.
Dr Farhana Sarker recently joined IUB and her research involves Health informatics, Human Computer Interaction, Machine Learning. Dr Farhana Sarker is the recipient of several international grants, including one in 2024 from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Dr Md Rashedur Rahman recently joined IUB after completing his D.Engg degree from University of Hyogo, Japan in 2024. He works on medical image processing and analysis, video analysis, machine learning among others.
We are expecting to have faculty members from other disciplines joining CCDS.
Our paper got accepted to CHI (the Top Ranked Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems) 2025’s Late Breaking Work Track!
Our paper titled “Improving User Engagement and Learning Outcomes in LLM-Based Python Tutor: A Study of PACE” got accepted to CHI (the Top Ranked Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems) 2025’s Late Breaking Work Track!
What gives us more pleasure is that this work came out of an undergraduate senior project. The project done was by two IUB CSE graduates Ashfaq and Shochcho and was supervised by Prof Amin Ahsan Ali. Apart from them, other coauthors include CCDS RA Rohan and Dr Ashraful Islam, Hasnain Heickal, and Dr Akm Mahbubur Rahman, and Prof Ashraful Amin.
This paper introduces PACE (Python AI Companion for Enhanced Engagement), a system leveraging Small LMs to deliver step-by-step guidance and adaptive feedback for teaching Python.
This study examines (1) the PACE system’s effectiveness in programming education according to learners, (2) learners’ trust in PACE versus traditional resources, and (3) design recommendations to enhance engagement and learning outcomes. PACE contributes to advancing cost-effective, scalable programming education.
Watch the demonstration video. [Click here…]
2nd CCDS Workshop on Deep Learning Code Management
This is the 2nd iteration of the workshop. This time we invited 28 graduates from IUB, NSU, BRAC U, UIU, MIST, IUT, AUST, Science University of Malaysia, DU, and BUET who had applied for a research intern position in CCDS. Together with them graduates and undergrads from IUB joined the workshop. Topics included hands on coding on CNNs, LSTMs, Transformers, as well as code management and visualization using VS code, PyTorch Lightening, and wandb.ai.
Dr. AKM Mahbubur Rahman with the research assistants conducted the workshop. Dr Ashraful Amin, Director of CCDS handed out the certificates.
We would like to specially thank our RAs – Fahim, Iftee, Moshiur, Sazzat, Monon, and Nabarun for helping us out preparing the materials, and helping Dr Mahbub in conducting the sessions.
We plan to soon share the resources used in the workshop soon.
