Webinar on How to Reply to Reviewers: Few Points

A successful webinar on How to Reply to Reviewers: Few Points has been successfully arranged by IEEE Computer Society Bangladesh Chapter on 12th April 2021 at 7:00 PM through the zoom virtual platform. The keynote speaker was Md Atiqur Rahman Ahad, Ph.D., Senior Member at IEEE, Professor at the University of Dhaka, and Specially Appointed Associate Professor at Osaka University. Being an editorial board member at Scientific Reports & Nature Publishing Group and associate editor at Frontiers in Computer Science, Frontiers; he was able to provide in-depth insight about the given topic. The webinar was conducted by the 2021 IEEE Computer Society, Bangladesh Chapter and supported by the IEEE CS BDC Team SPARK. 

The primary motivation behind the online webinar was to present and acquaint understudies with how to respond and speak with the reviewer of any conference or journal. The speaker zeroed in different focuses on the entire interaction of how the reviewer audit the paper and the editor check the cross-approval of commentator remark for accepting or reject a publication. Mainly he described the type of reviewer (single-blind & double-blind peer), reviewer workflow, review criteria and many more things. His focusing topic was how to reply to the reviewer in the proper manner. He showed an excellent example of the author’s response, discussed author representation and so on. In the end, the speaker addressed different inquiries identified with the given theme.

Students, academicians, some foreign researchers and professionals from different Universities and organizations, especially those who were keen on research attended the event. Over 150 participants including some Pakistani researchers, 86 IEEE and 64 non-IEEE members attended the webinar. Generally speaking, it was met with a huge response from research aficionados and students across the country.

Executive committee members of the IEEE Computer Society Bangladesh Chapter (IEEE CS BDC) including Prof. Dr. Md. Abdur Razzaque, Chair, Sajeeb Saha, Secretary, Md. Ahsan Habib, Student Activity Coordinator, Md. Samin Rahman Publicity Coordinator of IEEE CS BDC and so on were present in the webinar.