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IEEE Bangladesh Section Technical Expert Forum

S M Saiduzzaman, Newsletter Editor for IEEE Bangladesh Section

 On 26th September 2020, IEEE Bangladesh Section organized the “IEEE Bangladesh Section Technical Expert Forum”. As the Chair of IEEE Bangladesh Section, Prof. Celia Shahnaz brainstormed, led and launched this initiative. The forum was live on Facebook from the IEEE Bangladesh Section Facebook Page. This program was open for all, and around 900 people watched the forum via Facebook live.

The objectives of this forum were following:

  • To foster research and innovation
  • To promote industry-academia collaboration
  • To drive membership grade elevation (IEEE Senior Membership)
  • To mentor graduate students for scholarships, travel grants and graduate admission
  • To create cell to nurture social entrepreneurship and start-ups
  • To advance Women by Skill development
  • To enhance member engagement in corporate, public and private industries

Members of the IEEE Bangladesh Section are encouraged to join the forum, which consists of four major technical divisions focusing on Communication, Computer, Electronics, and Power. IEEE Bangladesh Section will be strengthening the initiative for Senior Member Elevation, although the first training of this year was conducted on 30th January 30 2020 that encouraged many to apply for senior memberships throughout the year.

IEEE Bangladesh Section will invite experts from the industry to build a strong industry-academia collaboration. Members of the IEEE Bangladesh Section Technical Forum will recommend the possible industry experts. These experts will also be a part of the IEEE Bangladesh Section Technical Forum. These industries will be approached for internships and research funding.

The other points discussed were to launch new technical chapters to address and include more diverse research enthusiasts in IEEE Bangladesh Section, to mentor graduate students for scholarships, travel grants and graduate admission, to create a cell to nurture social entrepreneurship and start-ups, to advance Women by Skill development and to enhance member engagement in corporate, public and private industries. At last, it was decided that the forum members will be holding multiple meetups and other synergistic activities from time to time in order to strengthen the community and ensure the betterment of the technical professionals for a post-pandemic world. Prof Celia Shahnaz, Chair for IEEE Bangladesh Section, presided over the whole session. The program was ended by a note of thanks by the Chair.

IEEE Members present in the meeting appreciated this milestone effort in creating the IEEE Bangladesh Section Technical Forum. They opined that it will enhance collaboration among technical experts and can create a borderless platform to share recent research updates. It will also invigorate the efforts towards the 4th industrial revolution for which technical assistance and collaboration would be a dire need.

IEEE Day Observations – Dreams, Dialogs, and Directions for a Better Tomorrow

Celia Shahnaz, Chair for IEEE Bangladesh Section

Considering the COVID-19 pandemic, IEEE Bangladesh Section observed IEEE day through full virtual events focusing on “Dreams, Dialogs, and Directions for a Better Tomorrow”. The new mode of these events was “Interactive Dialogs”, instead of conventional continuous talks.

The five-day program consists of the following:

  • Student Branch Activities: 6th October 2020
  • Student Branch Technical Chapter Activities: 7th October 2020
  • Women in Engineering Activities: 8th October 2020
  • Technical Society Chapter Activities: 9th October 2020
  • Members and Young Professionals Activities: 10th October 2020.

The inauguration ceremony on October 6th was adorned with Prof. S. N. Singh, FIEEE, Vice-Chair, Technical Activities, IEEE Region 10 as the inaugural speaker of the event. Another notable speaker was Prof. V. R. Singh, LFIEEE. Parts of the third and fourth day sessions were held in Bangla Language following the Reaching Locals project, an initiative of IEEE President & CEO (2020) Dr. Toshio Fukuda.

The First Women in SIGHT Summit (WISE) by IEEE Bangladesh Section and IEEE SIGHT FLASH Bangladesh

Celia Shahnaz, Chair for IEEE Bangladesh Section

To celebrate 2020 IEEE SIGHT Week (29th November – 6th December 2020), IEEE Bangladesh Section and IEEE SIGHT FLASH Bangladesh organized the first Women in SIGHT Summit (WISE) on 6th December 2020. Dr. Celia Shahnaz, Chair for IEEE Bangladesh Section, IEEE SIGHT FLASH, and Women in SIGHT Working Group (2020) has led this initiative to engage more women in SIGHT/HAC projects/events.

Speakers and panelists from 3 IEEE Regions and 11 Sections joined the Summit. More than 65 participants from over 13 Sections from R10 and R9 joined the Summit. Sampathkumar Veeraraghavan, 2020 Chair for IEEE SIGHT and 2021 Chair for IEEE HAC was chief guest, and Jennifer Castillo, 2021 Chair for IEEE WIE was guest of honor. Other panelists were Antuanett Yomyra Damian Gomez (IEEE Peru); Muhfizaturrahmah (IEEE Indonesia); Iti Saha Misra (IEEE Kolkata); Nadiah Husseini (IEEE Malaysia); Aarti Karande (IEEE Bombay); Pia Torres (IEEE Argentina); Thiago Alencar (IEEE South Brazil) and Hana Siddiquee from New York, USA. Shaikh Fattah (2020 Education Chair for IEEE HAC) presented IEEE RAS-SIGHT funded project of SIGHT FLASH for designing and building of disinfection robots to handle Covid 19. Women interested and engaged in SIGHT/HAC activities have also presented their works in WISE.

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Mohammad Faizal Ahmad Fauzi

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Mohammad Faizal received his bachelor degree from Imperial College London in 1999 and doctoral degree from the University of Southampton in 2004. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Multimedia University, Malaysia. A very active IEEE volunteer since 2007, he served as the Chair for the IEEE Signal Processing Society Malaysia Chapter from 2008 to 2013, and the Chair for the IEEE Malaysia Section from 2017 to 2018. Under his stewardship, the chapter won the inaugural IEEE SPS Chapter of the Year Award in 2011. He also recently been awarded the IEEE Signal Processing Society Meritorious Chapter/Regional Service Award. A member of the IEEE Region 10 Executive Committee since 2019, he currently serves as the chair for the newsletter committee.

Shaikh A. Fattah

Lead Editor

Shaikh Fattah received his Ph.D. from Concordia University, Canada and was a Postdoc. at Princeton University, USA. He is now Professor, Dept. of EEE and Director, INPE, BUET, Bangladesh. He was the Chair of IEEE Bangladesh Section (2015-16) and General Chair of IEEE R10-HTC 2017. He is the Editorial Board Member of IEEE Access, Editor of IEEE PES Enews and Associate Editor of CSSP Springer. He has published 180+ international journal/conf. papers. He is the recipient of 2016 IEEE MGA Achievement Award, 2018 R10 Outstanding Volunteer Award, and 2017 IEEE R10 HTA Outstanding Volunteer Award. He served various committees of IEEE PES, EAB, SSIT, SIGHT and R10. He is the Education Chair of IEEE Humanitarian Activity Committee (HAC). He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Fellow of IEB.

Prashant R. Nair

Editor

Prashant R. Nair is currently an Associate Professor in Computer Science & Engineering and Chairman of Rankings & Accreditation cell at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (University), Coimbatore, India. He has been visiting faculty at University of California, San Diego and Sofia University, Bulgaria as an Erasmus Mundus fellow. His intellectual contributions include 6 books, 50+ research publications and editorial board memberships of IEEE MAS Link newsletter of IEEE Madras Section, Computer Society of India (CSI) Communications and CSI Transactions journal. He has held IEEE leadership positions such as Chair-Publications, IEEE Madras Section; Vice-chair, IEEE Education Society chapter of IEEE India Council and rendered service for premier conferences such as IEEE India Council International Conference (INDICON) 2018, IEEE R10 HTC 2014 and IEEE All India Student Congress (AISC) 2013. Awards won include IEEE Education Society global chapter achievement award, six CSI Academic Excellence awards and fellowship of IETE.

Redwan Ferdous

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Redwan Ferdous is professionally a certified project manager and electrical engineer. Currently he is leading as Senior Manager of the Electro Mechanical Engineering department of one of the projects of the largest healthcare chain of Bangladesh, Labaid Group. He is a veteran in cellphone manufacturing industry of Bangladesh. He is a professional member of IEEE for the past 10 years. He has engaged with IEEE R10 Newsletter Committee as editorial board member from 2017. He has been serving the IEEE MGA Member Benefits Portfolio Advisory Committee since 2020. Also, he has served in different IEEE vTools position of IEEE Bangladesh Section, IEEE PES Bangladesh Chapter. Currently he is country representative for Bangladesh of ‘International Robot Olympiad’ and ‘World Robot Olympiad’. He is also international judge of Global Conrad Challenge and Conrad Challenge China. Also, he is Executive Committee member of one of the prominent volunteer organization of the country- ‘Bangladesh Open Source Network’. Moreover, he is engaged in different professional and volunteer organization and activities as well as policy maker related to Humanitarian activities, Robotics, IoT, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.

W. M. W. Sharika Jayalath

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Graduated with B.Sc. (Honours) Eng. Degree specializing in Electrical & Electronic Engineering in 2018 from University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, she worked as a junior electrical engineer at E-Net Integrated solutions (Pvt) Ltd. Currently, she is pursuing her higher studies in electrical engineering field. She published various aspects of her undergraduate research project in IEEE 9th International Conference on Information and Automation for Sustainability (ICIAFS) 2018 and 2nd National Undergraduate Research Symposium 2019, Sri Lanka. She has been selected as a committee member for IEEE StudPro 3.0 Career Fair 2019. She started her volunteering career in IEEE from student branch level and recently, he extended it into international level. Currently, she is contributing towards the regular release of the IEEE Region 10 Newsletter.

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Ms Naila Mukhtar is currently doing PhD from Macquarie University Australia. She has over five years’ experience in industry and her research interests include Embedded System Security, Artificial Intelligence, Cryptography and Information Security. Currently, she is serving as Webmaster and social media coordinator of IEEE Region 10 Newsletter, Chair IEEE New South Wales (NSW) Women in Engineering (WIE) Affinity Group (AG), Vice-Chair IEEE Computer Society NSW Chapter and Treasurer IEEE NSW Young Professionals Affinity Group. She has actively participated in various technical and non-technical conferences and hosted/co-hosted the WIE track receptions, including Tensymp2018, ANZSCON 2017, IEEE WIE International Leadership Summit Brisbane, and Macquarie University Leadership Summit. She has collaboratively organized prolific events to support students and young professionals, promote gender diversity and inclusion, and professional development. She was the recipient of Macquarie University Best Student Services award (2018), and IEEE WIE Inspiring Student Member of the year award (2019).

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