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Geddes Graduate Scholarship, University of Saskatchewan

An annual scholarly award in recognition of academic and research excellence in master's program in the amount of $2,500.

2024

Student Travel Award, University of Saskatchewan

An award covering travel to the prestigious NeurIPS 2024 conference for presenting AI research.

2024

Presented Research at NeurIPS 2024 - SSL Workshop
Presented Research at NeurIPS 2024 - SSL Workshop

Presented two papers at NeurIPS 2024 in the workshop on Self-Supervised Learning (SSL). The first paper presents an unsupervised method for video highlight detection capitalizing on repeating patterns in audio and visual modalities of similar videos. The second work proposes a meta-learning-based test-time adaptation approach to handle distribution shifts at test-time.

2024

Presented Research at IJCNN 2021
Presented Research at IJCNN 2021

Presented our Reserach Paper titled Efficient Two-Stream Network for Violence Detection Using Separable Convolutional LSTM at International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) 2021

2021

European Rover Challenge, Poland
European Rover Challenge, Poland

Achieved 15th position in ERC 2019 and 14th position (best among Asian teams) in ERC 2018 with Team IUT Mars Rover. Worked on robotic arm manipulation and cache retrieval using image processing

20192018

Online Courses
Online Courses

Completed various courses at Coursera on topics such as Deep Learning, Tensorflow, Machine Learning, Image Processing, Constraint Optimization etc.

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Matlab Mania, KUET
Matlab Mania, KUET

Champion in Matlab Mania, An inter-university matlab coding competition, at Horizon 2020, organized by KUET.

2020

Matlab Challenge, IUT
Matlab Challenge, IUT

Champion in Matlab Challenge, An inter-university matlab coding competition, at Esonance 2019, organized by Dept. of EEE, IUT

2019

ICT Olympid, IUT ICT Fest
ICT Olympid, IUT ICT Fest

Champion in ICT Olympiad, A inter-university quiz based competition on ICT, at IUT 10th ICT Fest organized by dept. of CSE, IUT.

2019

Line Following Robot Challenge, NSU
Line Following Robot Challenge, NSU

Runners up in Line Following Robot Racing at Technovision organized by ECE dept., North South University (NSU)

2018

OIC Scholarship

Scholarship covering three years of undergraduate study granted by Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).

2017

HSC & SSC Scholarships

Govt. Scholarships for Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and Secondary School Certificate (SSC) results, by Bangladesh Education board

20162014

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