Professor A. B. M. Alim Al Islam
Talk Title & Abstract Computing Solutions to Serve the Under-Served for a Sustainable Future Research efforts, till now, on computing solutions exhibit little focus on the underserved people, even though a substantial part of the world’s population is still underserved. This happens perhaps due to the challenges of reaching them as well as of devising solutions for them while being consistent with their economic constraints. However, for a sustainable future of society and mankind, it is imperative that appropriate computing solutions be devised for the underserved people. In this talk, I would like to focus on our attempts to overcome the challenges associated with this regard and share a few stories on devising specialised computing solutions for underserved people. The attempts to be presented in this talk cover different types of population, such as visually-impaired people, refugees, extremely impoverished people, and even the general people of Bangladesh. Biography A. B. M. Alim Al Islam (Razi) received his PhD degree in Computer Engineering from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA. He is currently serving as a Professor in the Department of CSE, BUET. He also served as a member, R&D in Commlink Info. Tech. LTD, Bangladesh and in Stochastic Logic, ACI, Bangladesh. He is now serving as the Chair of the Incubator as well as the Chief Coordinator of the Research and Innovation Centre in the Department of CSE, BUET. His research interests cover human-computer interaction, networking and systems, ubiquitous computing, modelling and simulation, intelligent transportation, environmental monitoring and sensing, reliability analysis, etc. He has co-authored a number of journal and conference papers and presented his papers in different well-reputed conferences. He achieved several research awards, including best paper awards, best poster awards, best demo award, research grants, etc.
Talk Title & Abstract
Computing Solutions to Serve the Under-Served for a Sustainable Future
Research efforts, till now, on computing solutions exhibit little focus on the underserved people, even though a substantial part of the world’s population is still underserved. This happens perhaps due to the challenges of reaching them as well as of devising solutions for them while being consistent
with their economic constraints. However, for a sustainable future of society and mankind, it is imperative that appropriate computing solutions be devised for the underserved people. In this talk, I would like to focus on our attempts to overcome the challenges associated with this regard and share a few stories on devising specialised computing solutions for underserved people. The attempts to be presented in this talk cover different types of population, such as visually-impaired people, refugees, extremely impoverished people, and even the general people of Bangladesh.
Biography
A. B. M. Alim Al Islam (Razi) received his PhD degree in Computer Engineering from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA. He is currently serving as a Professor in the Department of CSE, BUET. He also served as a member, R&D in Commlink Info. Tech. LTD, Bangladesh and in Stochastic Logic, ACI, Bangladesh. He is now serving as the Chair of the Incubator as well as the Chief Coordinator of the Research and Innovation Centre in the Department of CSE, BUET. His research interests cover human-computer interaction, networking and systems, ubiquitous computing, modelling and simulation, intelligent transportation, environmental monitoring and sensing, reliability analysis, etc. He has co-authored a number of journal and conference papers and presented his papers in different well-reputed conferences. He achieved several research awards, including best paper awards, best poster awards, best demo award, research grants, etc.