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Linux for Biologists Workshop Concludes Successfully at CCDS
Workshop

Linux for Biologists Workshop Concludes Successfully at CCDS

The Computational Biology wing of CCDS completed a four-day “Linux for Biologists” workshop, taking participants from command-line basics to handling complex biological datasets.

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Mahdi’s Brain Metastases Segmentation Paper Accepted at the BraTS Challenge, MICCAI 2026
Publication

Mahdi’s Brain Metastases Segmentation Paper Accepted at the BraTS Challenge, MICCAI 2026

Mahdi’s paper on brain metastases segmentation was accepted as a poster at the BraTS Challenge at MICCAI 2026, and he presented it in person in Strasbourg.

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Md. Fahim Awarded Fully Funded PhD Position at UT Dallas
Achievement

Md. Fahim Awarded Fully Funded PhD Position at UT Dallas

Md. Fahim, Research Assistant and Junior Research Scientist at CCDS, has been accepted into a fully funded PhD program at the University of Texas at Dallas for the Fall 2026 intake. His doctoral research will focus on LLM reasoning, alignment, and multimodal AI.

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CCDS Weekly Paper Presentation 27 July 2026
Weekly Paper Presentation

CCDS Weekly Paper Presentation: Speculative Decoding for Faster LLM Inference

On Monday, 27 July 2026, at 11:30 AM, the Center for Computational & Data Sciences (CCDS), Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB), hosted a weekly paper presentation on speculative decoding and accelerating LLM inference with draft models.

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CCDS Weekly Paper Presentation 6 July 2026
Weekly Paper Presentation

CCDS Weekly Paper Presentation: Activation Steering and Concept Vectors in LLMs

On Monday, 6 July 2026, at 11:30 AM, the Center for Computational & Data Sciences (CCDS), Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB), hosted a weekly paper presentation on steering LLM behavior via concept vectors and layer selection.

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CCDS Weekly Paper Presentation (29 June 2026)
Weekly Paper Presentation

CCDS Weekly Paper Presentation: Visual Representation Learning via Temporal Differences

On Monday, 29 June 2026, at 11:00 AM, the Center for Computational & Data Sciences (CCDS), Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB), hosted a session on self-supervised visual learning from video motion, presented by Md Raqibul Islam.

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Training-Free Layer Selection for Partial Fine-Tuning of Language Models
Publication

Our paper titled “Training-Free Layer Selection for Partial Fine-Tuning of Language Models” has been accepted for publication in the Information Sciences journal

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2025 IEEE SCOReD, Malaysia
Achievement

CCDS wins Best Paper and Best Presenter Awards at 2025 IEEE SCOReD in Malaysia

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R-MMA: Enhancing Vision-Language Models with Recurrent Adapters for Few-Shot and Cross-Domain Generalization
Publication

One of our research papers have been accepted at WACV 2026

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Team THREE 1st Place at 3MT Bangladesh 2025
Achievement

Team THREE Makes History with 1st Place Win at 3MT Bangladesh 2025

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Two of our research papers have been accepted at EMNLP 2025
Publication

Two of our research papers have been accepted at EMNLP 2025

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Sadia Khan
Alumni

CCDS Alumni (senior project student) Sadia Khan Receives Fully Funded Scholarship for Master's at Uppsala

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