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This is to inform Ashfaq and Shochcho that two of our undergrad research students got selected for the ACM SIGCHI Winter School. Only 5 applicants received travel grants and Ashfaq is one of them.
The workshop might offer 4 more grants, so let’s hope for the best.
The school will be held on Jan 2-4 in Colombo.
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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.
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.
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.