Undergraduate Project Update Presentation Day
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.
CCDS arranged a 3 day workshop on Systematic Literature Review
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 Theoretical Physics
We are seeking a postbac (post-baccalaureate) Research Assistant who will work under the supervision of Theoretical Physicists. The work will involve both analytical and numerical computation. More specifically, we will study the chaos and complexity of different kinds of quantum mechanical and field theoretical systems.
The Theory RA will work jointly with the Department of Physical Sciences and the ComPAs wing of CCDS.
Deadline: 15 January 2024
Salary negotiable. For queries contact Dr. Jewel Kumar Ghosh. Email: jewel.ghosh AT iub.edu.bd
Apply online: https://forms.gle/TcNfGYQcUZFU6Vfe6
Hiring Research Assistant in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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
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
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
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/
