The Data Science Lab of the Department of Software Engineering Daffodil International University observed the ‘3rd Data Science Summit-2022’ today on November 29, 2022. Mr. Bikarna Kumar Ghosh, Managing Director, Bangladesh Hi-Tech Park Authority (BHTPA) was present as the chief guest at the inauguration ceremony of the daylong event at Daffodil Smart City, Ashulia, Dhaka,. The inauguration ceremony was addressed by Prof. Dr. Md. Fokhray Hossain, Dean of FSIT. Dr. Imran Mahmud, Head, Department of Software Engineering, Md. Shohel Arman, Assistant Professor & Lab in-change, DIU Data Science Lab, and other faculty members, and students Data Science Club were present at the event.
Later on Bikarna Kumar Ghosh, Managing Director, Bangladesh Hi-Tech Park Authority (BHTPA) officially inaugurated the Data Science Lab of Daffodil International University which is first Data Science Lab in Bangladesh.
A ‘Panel Discussion with Industry-Academia field of Data Science was held in the summit where A Y M Mostafa, EVP and CTO, Prime Bank, Mohammad Fayadan Hossain, Co-Founder and managing Director, Hishab technologies limited, Mohammad Oli Ahad, Founder, Intelligence Machines Limited, Dr. Mohammad Shamsul Arefin, Professor, Department of Computer Science, Daffodil International University, Dr. Nabeel Mohammed, Associate Professor, North South University were the speakers of the event.
Two technical sessions were held in the summit. The first one ‘From Model to Learn Machine Learning: Artificial Neural Network in Business and Management Research’ was conducted by Dr. Imran Mahmud, Head, Department of SWE Musabbir Hasan Sammak, Lecturer, Department of SWE of Daffodil Intrnational University,.
And the 2nd one was ‘Industry Insights, CV Writing, Interview Preparation and Future of Data Science in Bangladesh and Abroad’ facilitated by Mohammad Fayadam Hossain, Co-Founder, and Managing Director, Hishab Technologies Limited. In this session, DIU alumni from different countries and organizations joined the technical sessions including Syed Mobassir, Computer Vision Engineer at Apsis Solutions Ltd, Computer Vision Researcher at Kaggle and Grandmaster at Kaggle, Shah Fahad Hossain, Masters in Artificial Intelligence, Universite Paris-Saclay, Sazid Nur Ratul, M.S.c in Computer Science, University of Eastern Finland, Former Software Engineer, Samsung R&D Institute Bangladesh, Shohag Ahammed Siyam, Junior Machine Learning Engineer, Fashol were present in the event. Special Guest of the Program was S A M Matiur Rahman, Associate Professor, Department of Software Engineering, Daffodil International University
Women participants in Data Science Summit are: Afsana Begum, Assistant Professor and Coordinator MSc., Department of Software Engineering, Daffodil International University, Sabila Enun, Director, Dcastalia Limited, Co-Chair, Standing Committee for HR Development and IT Training, BASIS, Ms. Nusrat Jahan, Assistant Professor, and Head, Department of Information Technology and Management, Daffodil International University, Farzana Afrin Tisha, Head of Cloud Business, Brain Station 23 Director, Women in Big Data Bangladesh Chapter
The most attractive part of the Summit was the DIU Smart City Idea Contest 2022 where more than 15+ teams from different departments of DIU participated in this competition. They presented their idea and after the competition award was given to the champions by Dr. Imran Mahmud, Head, Department of Software Engineering & Md. Shohel Arman, Assistant Professor & Lab in-change, DIU Data Science Lab.