Distinguished Lecture Session on “Epilepsy, Algorithms, and AI: Personalized Seizure Forecasting”
Fardeen Mahbub, Secretary for IEEE AIUB EMBS Student Chapter
On 5th November 2020, the IEEE AIUB Student Branch in collaboration with the IEEE EMBS AIUB Student Chapter organized a Distinguished Lecture session titled “Epilepsy, Algorithms, and AI: Personalized Seizure Forecasting” via the virtual platform of GOOGLE MEET. The session was conducted by IEEE EMBS Distinguished Lecturer, Prof. David B. Grayden, Clifford Chair, Neural Engineering; Director, MSE Medical Technologies Research Platform, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Melbourne. In his talk, he focused on the disorder epilepsy including its significant impacts of AI-based computational studies, and emphasized various ways for providing an automated and standardized protocol for supporting clinical decisions with the intellect & proficiency of the engineers. The session witnessed more than 195 participants from different parts of the world, including numerous renowned researchers in the Biomedical Engineering sector, along with the remarks from Dr. Celia Shanaaz, Chair for IEEE Bangladesh Section, and Dr. Sheikh Anowarul Fattah, Chair for IEEE EMBS Bangladesh Chapter.
Webinar Session on ‘Application of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) in Precision Agriculture: Issues and Challenges’
Fardeen Mahbub, Publication Coordinator for IEEE AIUB Student Branch
On 9th October 2020, the IEEE AIUB Student Branch in collaboration with the IEEE Computer Society AIUB Student Chapter successfully organized a webinar session titled “Application of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) in Precision Agriculture: Issues and Challenges” through the CISCO WEBEX Meeting platform. The session was conducted by IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Speaker, Mohamed Rawidean Mohd Kassim, who is also R10 Regional Coordinator for IEEE Computer Society, and R&D Manager at Technology Deployment Department, Malaysian Institute of Microelectronic Systems, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation Malaysia. The session focused on the elaborate ideas on Wireless Sensor Networks in the field of precision agriculture and also explained how WSN, AI, Big Data, robotics, drones, machine vision, and cognitive technologies could play their respective roles in this field considering the world food demand in future. The session ended up with an interactive Q/A session and witnessed the participation of a total of 93 participants.