IUB’s CCDS Wins Dual Honours at IEEE SCOReD 2025

The Center for Computational and Data Sciences (CCDS) of Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) has won two prestigious awards at the 23rd IEEE Student Conference on Research and Development (SCOReD) 2025, held at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, bringing international recognition for Bangladesh.

At the global conference, CCDS secured both the Best Paper Award and the Best Presenter Award.

The Best Paper Award was conferred for the research paper titled “Effectiveness of Transfer Learning Approach for Low-Resource Bangla Dialect Translation.” The paper was authored by CCDS researchers and IUB MSc in Computer Science students Dewan Rakin Ahmed Remal, Synthia Chowdhury, Jahangir Hossain Setu, and Nabarun Haldar.

Meanwhile, the Best Presenter Award was won by Faiza Omar Arpita, a CCDS researcher and MSc student, for her presentation titled “Preliminary Design of a Culturally Tailored AI-Integrated mHealth App for Gestational Diabetes and Excessive Weight Management in Bangladesh.”

Both award-winning studies were jointly supervised by CCDS Director Dr Ashraful Islam and Founding Director Professor Dr M Ashraful Amin.

Representing CCDS at the conference were Dr Ashraful Islam and Asif Mahmud, Co-Director of the Industry and Partnership Wing. They were accompanied by the CCDS research team, along with three MSc students in Computer Science and four undergraduate students from the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department.

Under CCDS supervision, a total of 14 research papers—originating from MSc theses and undergraduate senior projects—were presented at IEEE SCOReD 2025, with participation from 32 students. These studies focused on cutting-edge areas including data science, AI-based systems, informatics, blockchain, natural language processing, and computer vision. The research was jointly supervised by Professor Dr M Ashraful Amin, Dr Sadia Binte Alam, Dr Ashraful Islam, Dr Rashedur Rahman, Sanjar Adnan Alam, and Asif Mahmud.

In addition, CCDS researchers presented studies on climate accountability, cyberbullying detection, agricultural technology, medical assistive diagnostic systems, blockchain frameworks for environmental data, and image- and text-based learning models. These papers are expected to be published soon in the international research database IEEE Xplore.

CCDS authorities expressed sincere gratitude to the IUB administration and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering for providing administrative and financial support that enabled participation in the international conference.

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