Microbial genomes are being analyzed for revealing plant microbes’ interaction to understand ow plants cope up with stress with the supports from microbial world. Also genomic characterization of microbes isolated from polluted environments are being carried out specially focused on hydrocarbon eating bacteria to remove oil spil.
This project aims in analyzing publicly available sequencing data to reveal patterns and connection to understand stress tolerance mechanism in rice, a major staple food crop. Due to climate change number of cultivable agricultural lands are reducing, hence stress tolerant plants are necessary to feed the population. Along with computational data gene expression and phenotyping data are integrated to explore the biological relevance of sequence data. From the learned mechanism candidate genes are selected for further functional genomics analysis to develop climate smart plants. The project collaborates with Prof Zeba Islam Seraj’s group at University of Dhaka for information and resource exchanges.
CCDS RA, Md Fahim has ranked #1 and #2 in Bangla sentiment analysis and violence inciting text detection tasks respectively organized by the first Bangla Language Processing workshop @ EMNLP 2023. More information about the workshop can be found here: First Workshop on Bangla Language Processing (blp-workshop.github.io)
Congratulations to Fahim.
Congratulations to Mohammad Raihanul Bashar Fahim! We’re happy to announce that he will be joining the Extended Reality and Interaction Technologies (EXiT) Lab at Concordia University, Canada for his Master’s in Computer Science starting in Fall 2023. He will be working in the field of Extended Reality, Human-Computer Interaction, and 3D user interface. Fahim had been one of our first RAs and an alumni of CSE IUB and has been working as a senior ML engineer since he left the lab.
Best of luck, Fahim!
Congratulations to Ovi Paul, one of our former RAs at CCDS and alumni of IUB, for embarking on his PhD journey. He will be doing his PhD in Geosensing System Engineering & Science program at the University of Houston! Ovi will also serve as a Graduate Research Assistant at the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping. The center is based at the University of Houston and is operated in partnership with the University of California, Berkeley. At CCDS, he had been working on spatial data processing (land cover and land usage classification, urban buildup classification etc. from satellite data).
We wish him all the best.
