EEE Faculty Receives Outstanding Young Scholar and Best Presentation Awards at ICCCAS 2023, Singapore

Dr. Md Kafiul Islam, Associate Professor at the Department of EEE, Independent University Bangladesh (IUB), won the “Excellent Oral Presentation Award" under Technical Session 5: "Advanced Electronic Device Design and Development" as well as "Outstanding Young Scholar Award" at 12th International Conference on Communications, Circuits and Systems (ICCCAS 2023), held in Singapore during May 5-7, 2023. ICCCAS 2023 is sponsored by Qatar University, Qatar, Sensors and Systems Society of Singapore, and the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, with support from MDPI-Sensors as patrons. In addition to that, Dr. Kafi also delivered an Invited Speech titled "Prospects and Challenges of an EOG-based Human Machine Interface (HMI) for Physically Challenged People" and organized a Special Session titled “Biomedical Instrumentation and Signal Processing for Disease Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Treatment” where a total of five papers was submitted. He also served as one of the TPC members of the same conference. It is to be noted that the research topic of Dr. Islam's invited speech is a part of IUB sponsored research grant for FY 2020-21. On behalf of his students, Dr. Kafi presented the paper titled "Effect of Artifact Removal on EEG based Motor Imagery BCI Applications" authored by Maisha Anjum, Nazmus Sakib and Md Kafiul Islam. The research work was part of an Undergraduate Final Year Design Project performed at the Department of EEE, IUB in 2022 by Maisha Anjum under the supervision of Dr. Kafi. One Excellent Oral Presentation was selected from each technical session of the conference. Below criteria were taken into consideration for the selection: Originality, Applicability, Technical Merit, PPT, and Presentation Clearness. The session was chaired by Prof. Dir Chung, FIEEE, National Taiwan University, Taiwan and Award Committee Chair of ICCCAS 2023. Dr. Kafi had another co-authored paper titled "Machine Learning Based Depression Screening Among Young Adults using Wireless EEG" which is an outcome of an MSc thesis of Mr. Nazmus Sakib, R&D officer from Dept. of EEE and jointly supervised with Dr. Tasnuva Faruk, Senior Lecturer of Dept. of Public Health and PI of the sponsored research project titled "Screening of Depression in Young Adults: Simultaneous Analysis of EEG Recordings with Validated Screening Tools" (Ref #2020-SPPH-01), who presented the paper in the same conference. The Outstanding Young Scholar award was handed over to Dr. Kafi by the Conference Committee Co-Chair, Prof. Maode Ma, IET Fellow, Qatar University, Qatar and Award Committee Chair, Prof. Dir Chung during the conference dinner held at NTU@One North Alumni House, Singapore on 6 May, 2023. The authors within the age of 40 years by May 13, 2023 with a doctoral degree were eligible to apply for the Outstanding Young Scholar award. The applicant was required to submit representative publications (up to 2) and a full CV for judges to review and all publications needed to provide impact factors, citations and major research contributions. Two scholars were selected by the Conference Chair and announced at the conference out of a total of ten applicants.