1st CCDS Summer School on Random Matrix Theory

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The Center for Computational & Data Sciences (CCDS) is organizing a 5-day summer school on “Random Matrix Theory” from 30th June to 4th July 2024.

Lecturer

Arijit Chakrabarty, PhD
Associate Professor
Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit
Indian Statistical Institute
Kolkata, India
Website: Arijit Chakrabarty (isical.ac.in)

Place

Room#6002, BC, Independent University, Bangladesh

Schedule

  • Lecture: 09:30 AM  – 11:00 AM
  • Coffee Break :  11:00 AM – 11:30 AM
  • Lecture:  11:30 AM – 01:00 PM
  • Lunch: 01:00 PM – 02:30 PM

Lecture Plan

  • Lecture 1: Basics of random matrices – Wigner and Wishart matrices, empirical spectral distribution, the method of moments, Stieltjes transform.
  • Lecture 2: Convergence to the Wigner semicircle law – a complete proof via the method of moments.
  • Lecture 3: Study of Wishart matrices, the convergence of the empirical spectral distribution to the Marchenko-Pastur law – a complete proof via Stieltjes transform.
  • Lecture 4: The largest eigenvalue and eigenvector of perturbed random matrices with independent entries. Emphasis will be on finite rank perturbations.
  • Lecture 5: Connections between random matrices and random graphs – study of the bulk and edge of the spectrum of the adjacency matrix.

Resources

Lecture notes from the school are available here.

Participants

NameInstitute
Hasif AhmedLawrence University
Rakibul Hasan RajibCCDS, IUB
Md Tahmid Hasan FuadCCDS, IUB
Md Mubtasim AhasanBrac University
Walid HasanBrac University
Mohammad Tahmid SahriarBRAC University
KishorCCDS, IUB
Mir Sazzat HossainCCDS, IUB
Jahir Sadik MononCCDS, IUB
Aldrin Kabya BiswasCCDS, IUB
Syed Emad Uddin ShubhaBUET
Mohibul Hasan TarekNSU
Rashedul Islam SeumUniversity of Dhaka
MD AKIL RAIHAN IFTEECCDS, IUB
Rahul RohitCCDS, IUB
Nur Mohammad SalemUniversity of Dhaka
Md. Rakibul Islam MazumdarUniversity of Dhaka
Abdullah Ibne Hanif AreanUniversity of Dhaka

Undergraduate Project Update Presentation Day

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CCDS Undergrad Project Update Presentation Day, held on February 8, 2024. Eight groups, under the supervision of CCDS mentors, showcased their progress and findings. The presentations encompassed a diverse range of topics and research endeavors. It was a culmination of dedicated efforts and collaborative work within the CCDS community. The event provided a platform for students to share their achievements and insights with peers and faculty members alike.

Five Papers Accepted in EMBC 2024

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We are happy to announce that five of our papers have been accepted in EMBC 2024. Papers are titled with:


  1. Mohammad Arshad Hossain Ratul, Tunisha Yanoor Bristy, Noorjahan Sayeed, and Ashraful Islam, “mHealth Tool for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Management and Education in Bangladeshi Women”, EMBC 2024.

  2. Jahanggir Hossain Setu, Nabarun Halder, Ashraful Islam, “Streamlining Multi-Omics Analysis for Enhanced Predictive Model”, EMBC 2024.

  3. Nabarun Halder, Jahanggir Hossain Setu, Ashraful Islam, “Smartwatch-Based Human Stress Diagnosis Utilizing Physiological Signals and LSTM-Driven Machine Intelligence”.

  4. Md Asif Bin Khaled, Ashraful Islam, “Relational Agent-Enabled mHealth Platform for Addressing Dengue Crisis in Bangladesh”, EMBC 2024

  5. Md Junayed Hossain, Ashraful Islam, “Leukemia Classification: a Comprehensive Evaluation of Deep Learning Models with Pixel Reduction”, EMBC 2024.

DPS IUB Summer School 2024: Glimpses into the Quantum World- Information, Technology, and Applications

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Introduction

The Department of Physical Sciences (DPS) of Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) is going to organize a summer school. The title of the school is “DPS IUB Summer School 2024: Glimpses into the Quantum World- Information, Technology, and Applications“. The school has two parts: 1) pre-school, 2) main school. In the pre-school lectures will be delivered by the experts to make the students prepared for the main school. In the main school, guest lecturers will deliver lectures on some exciting developments in the area of quantum information theory and technology.

The following courses will be offered.

  • Necessary mathematics
  • Quantum mechanics essentials
  • A crash course on quantum computation
  • Geometric and holonomic quantum computation
  • Topological phases of matter
  • Open quantum systems

Eligibility

Completion of Linear Algebra, and Quantum Mechanics is recommended. However, in the pre-school the basics will be covered.

Registration

The date of the pre-school is May 4-9, 2024. The main school will be held from May 11-16, 2024. If you are interested to attend the school, please apply via filling this form.

The pre-school

The purpose of the pre-school is to make the students prepare for a smooth transition to the main school. With a view to achieving this goal, the following courses are offered.

  1. Necessary Mathematics by Dr. Jewel K. Ghosh
  2. Quantum Mechanics Essentials by Prof. M. Arshad Momen
  3. A crash course on quantum computation by Prof. Tibra Ali

Main School

In the main school, leading experts will deliver lectures on different topics. The tentative topics are the following.

  1. Geometric and holonomic quantum computation by Prof. L. C. Kwek
  2. Topological phases of matter by Prof. Subhro Bhattacharjee
  3. Open quantum systems (online) by Prof. Manas Kulkarni

CCDS arranged a 3 day workshop on Systematic Literature Review

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January 24, 2024

CCDS arranged a 3-day workshop titled “Insider’s Guide to Systemic Review & Research Paper Writing – A Hands-on workshop” at IUB. 58 participants completed the 15 hour workshop spread over 3 cold winter days, starting at 10:30am and ending at 4:30pm every day. Participants included students, research assistants and faculty members from IUB.

Dr. Ashraful Islam, Co-director of HCI wing of CCDS and Assistant Professor of dept of CSE, conducted the workshop. MS students of dept of CSE and research assistants Jahanggir Hossain Setu and Nabarul Halder from assisted him. CCDS director Prof Ashraful Amin handed over the certificates to the participants at the closing ceremony today.

CCDS plans to arrange similar workshops in near future which will be open to all.

Hiring Research Assistant in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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We are seeking a postbac (post-baccalaureate) Research Assistant who will work under the supervision of an observational astronomer and a theoretical physicist. The work will involve both astronomical observation and simulation. The observational part entails modeling the direction-dependent errors of LOFAR (a radio telescope) in observing the 21-cm signal coming from the epoch of reionization of the universe (almost 12 billion years ago). The simulation part entails simulating cosmological hydrogen using 21cmFAST, a semi-numerical code.

The Astrophysics RA will work jointly at COALab of the Department of Physical Sciences and the ComPAs wing of the Center for Computational and Data Sciences (CCDS).

Eligibility: The applicants must have finished undergrad in physics, mathematics, computer science, or a related engineering field and must not be doing any other full-time job at the moment of the application.

Deadline: 15 January 2024

Salary negotiable. For queries contact Dr. Khan Asad. Email: kasad AT iub.edu.bd

Apply online: https://forms.gle/gYm3EMeqhsVceqqo6

CCDS supervisor received grant from SR, IUB

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Md Zahangir Alam, Ph.D., Co-Director HCI Wing, CCDS, Assistant Professor, CSE, IUB, received a research grant of BDT 600,000 from Sponsored Research, Independent University, Bangladesh under the project title “Resource optimization of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) cyber-physical systems at a desired security level using Machine Learning techniques”.

Congratulations Md Zahangir Alam, Ph.D. for receiving this award.

CCDS supervisor received grant from SR, IUB

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Ashraful Islam, Ph.D., Co-Director HCI Wing, CCDS, Assistant Professor, CSE, IUB, received a research grant of BDT 850,000 from Sponsored Research, Independent University, Bangladesh under the project title “ICT-enabled Workplace Stress Management”.

Congratulations Ashraful Islam, Ph.D. for receiving this award.

CCDS RA received “Best Shared Task Paper” in BanglaNLP workshop @EMNLP23

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EMNLP is one of the best conferences in natural language processing which is a very prestigious venue. This year there was a workshop on the Bangla language named “Bangla Language Processing” (BLP) for the first time.  From our CCDS Lab, 5 papers have been accepted in that workshop. Among those accepted papers, the paper titled “Aambela al BLP-2023 Task 2: Enhancing  Banglabert Performance for Bangla Sentiment Analysis Task within task pretraining and Adversarial Weight Perturbation” has been selected for the “Best Shared Task Paper” award in the workshop. Congratulations to our RA, Md Fahim for winning this award.
Award Announcement Link: https://blp-workshop.github.io/awards 
Link of the paper: https://aclanthology.org/2023.banglalp-1.42/ 

Paper accepted in NeurIPS 2023 at 3rd Workshop on Efficient Natural Language and Speech Processing

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We are very glad to share that our paper titled:”HateXplain Space Model: Fusing Robustness with Explainability in Hate Speech Analysis” Accepted at “Efficient Natural Language and Speech Processing” workshop @NeurIPS 2023. The paper deals with detecting hate texts with more robust and explainable fashion.

LLMs demonstrate proficiency in various tasks but encounter difficulties when identifying hate contexts, especially in zero-shot or transfer learning scenarios. To tackle this challenge, we present Space Modeling (SM), an innovative approach that enhances hate context detection by generating word-level attribution and bias scores. These scores offer intuitive insights into model predictions and help recognize hateful terms.

Very glad to Dr. Ruhul Amin Sir (Assistant Professor, Fordham University, USA) for his supervision.