IEEE Computer Society Bangladesh Chapter Summer Symposium 2021

IEEE Computer Society Bangladesh Chapter Summer Symposium 2021 (IEEE CS BDC SS 2021) has successfully been completed, which was organized by IEEE Computer Society Bangladesh Chapter (IEEE CS BDC) in collaboration with IEEE CS BDC Youth Team SPARK during 4-5 June 2021, taking place through a virtual online platform. About 200 participants from 7 different countries were present in the different sessions of the symposium. 

Considering the top priority of the safety and well-being of the participants during the COVID-19 pandemic, IEEE CS BDC SS 2021, decided to fully organize it in virtual mode. To provide maximum flexibility, the IEEE CS BDC SS 2021 included online technical presentations, as well as an inaugural ceremony and award-giving ceremony. In this symposium, 65 research papers were accepted among 91 submissions for presentation. There were 13 foreign papers, including the United States, Malaysia, India, Pakistan, Canada, and Nigeria in the total of 91 submissions.

The symposium aimed to provide a platform for the participants to share their ideas, discuss recent developments, research with eminent researchers and academicians to get expert guidance and opinions to improve their research ideas, works, and skills. They were also highly encouraged to consider submitting and presenting their (preliminary) research works in the symposium. The symposium also allowed them to present the partial/final results of their research work or earlier published papers (on/after March 2020) to improve or extend the works.

Initially, authors were encouraged to submit an extended abstract of the research works in the six Tracks and Themes: Track 1: AI, Machine Learning and Robotics; Track 2: Cognitive Science, Computational Biology and e-Health; Track 3: Internet of Things (IoT), Data Analytics and Cloud Computing; Track 4: 5G Internet and Security; Track 5: Signal Processing, Computer Vision and Optimization; and Track 6: Algorithms and Computation. Every submission was gone through a double-blind review process by experts. About 67 Technical Program Committee Members from different countries contributed their scholarly efforts to provide expert guidance and opinions to improve their research ideas works. 

The symposium has published all accepted abstracts in a book of abstracts without copyright and ISBN-number by the IEEE Computer Society Bangladesh Chapter that has been distributed among the participants during the symposium. Publishing in this symposium will not prohibit participants from publishing again in any other conference or journal.

Special features including – no registration fee, providing e-certificates to the participants, as well as ten special certificates with three best research awards of the symposium highly attracted the participants.

Two distinguished Keynote Speakers enriched the symposium by inspiring the participants by giving a glimpse of cutting-edge, state-of-the-art issues. Dr. Debajyoti Mondal, University of Saskatchewan, Canada delivered his keynote speech on Algorithmic Aspects of Information Visualization and Prof. Dr. Mohamed Rawidean Mohd Kassim, SMIEEE, Coordinator, IEEE Region-10 delivered his keynote speech on Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) in Precision Agriculture Applications.

Dr. Md. Lutfar Rahman, Emeritus Professor and Vice-Chancellor, Daffodil International University was present as chief guest in the inaugural session of the symposium. Dr. Andre Oboler, Vice President for MGA, IEEE Computer Society was present as a special guest in the inaugural session. Prof. Dr. Md. Zafar Iqbal, Dept. of CSE, SUST was present as chief guest in the closing and award-giving ceremony and Peter Mager, GAC Chair, IEEE R10 CS was present as a special guest in the ceremony of the symposium.

Md. Abdur Razzaque, Chair of the IEEE CS BDC and Pro-VC of the Green University of Bangladesh was the Organizing Chair of the symposium. Md. Saidur Rahman, CSE, BUET was the Technical Chair, Mohammad Shorif Uddin, CSE, JU and M Shamim Kaiser, IIT, JU were the Technical Co-Chairs, Mr. Sajeeb Saha, CSE, JnU was the Organizing Secretary, Md. Al Mamun, CSE, RUET was the Technical Secretary, Md. Ahsan Habib (Tareq), ICT, MBSTU

And Md. Majharul Haque, Bangladesh Bank were the members of the Finance Committee, Md. Samin Rahman, EEE, BAMRAAU was the chair of the Publicity Committee, K. M. Azharul Hasan, CSE, KUET, Abdul Kadar Muhammad Masum, CSE, IIUC and Mustafa Habib Chowdury, EEE, IUB were the members of the Award Committee, Muhammad Aminur Rahman, CSE, GUB and Sadia Sharmin, CSE, IUT were the members of the Publication Committee, Md. Jamil Istiaq, CSE,AIUB was the Webmaster and Dewan Aminul Islam, EEE, NSU and Team SPARK was the Youth Partner of the symposium.