CSE-BUET News-Events

Graduate Admission, October 2009

CSE Faculty Member Awarded BAS-Gold Medal

Dr. M. Sohel Rahman, an Assistant Professor of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering (CSE), BUET, has been selected for the prestigious BAS-Gold Medal Award-2008 in Physical Sciences (Junior Group) by Bangladesh Academy of Sciences in recognition of his excellent contribution in research. Dr. Rahman's areas of research include algorithms, stringology, bioinformatics and natural computing. So far he has published more than 40 research articles in refereed international journals and conference proceedings. He is a member of the Association of Computability in Europe (CiE) and a Senior Member of the International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology (IACSIT). In recognition of his excellence in research Dr Rahman has been honoured with the status of Visiting Research Fellow of Kings College London of which he is a graduate.

Inauguration Ceremony - IT Courses and New Laboratories

Bangladesh Korea Information Access Center, Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) of BUET is going to launch a number of IT courses from the 3rd week of July. The objective of the courses is to train-up the general people with Information Technology to materialize and support the Bangladesh Government’s vision of Digital Bangladesh. At the same time, Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) of BUET is going to launch two well-equipped laboratories- VLSI Design and Automation Lab (VDAL) and Wireless Communication Lab (WNL), established with the objective to grant the students access to the latest technologies and facilities in the respective fields.

The inauguration ceremony of IT courses, VLSI Design Automation Lab (VDAL) and Wireless Networking Lab (WNL) at the Department of CSE, BUET, will be held at 04:00 pm on the 19th of July, 2009 at the Bangladesh Korea Information Access Center, New Academic Building, West Palashi, BUET. Architect Yeafesh Osman, Honorable State Minister, Ministry of Science and Information & Communication Technology, has kindly consented to grace the occasion as the Chief Guest. Prof. Dr. A. M. M. Safiullah, Honorable Vice-Chancellor, BUET, will chair the ceremony. The participants of different courses of IAC, and students, and faculty members of BUET will be present on the ceremony.

Graduate Admission, April 2009

BUET Team Secured the 34st Position in ACM ICPC 2009

BUET Falcon team has shown an excellent performance in the World Final of ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest 2009 hosted by KTH - The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. This time, BUET has secured 34st position in this prestigious and competitive programming contest, outperforming world famous universities like Caltech (no rank), Purdue (no rank), SUNY Stony Brook(no rank), Alberta (no rank), Virginia(no rank), McGill (no rank), Duke(no rank), Texas at Austin (49th) and Wisconsin Madison (49th). BUET team solved 4 out of 11 problems whereas the highest number of problems solved was 9 by St. Petersburg University of IT, Mechanics and Optics (rank 1) and Tsinghua University(rank 2). A fantastic team work of Shahriar Rouf (Nafi), Md. Mahbubul Hasan(Shanto) and Tanaeem Muhammad Moosa under the coaching of Dr. M. Kaykobad, along with the best wishes of all well wishers have made this possible.

The contest started at 1.30 PM (BGD time), April 21st and the duration was 5 hours. Among the 11 problems (A-K), BUET team solved problems A,B, D and F. The first problem they solved was problem A and they did it very quickly, and that took them to within 5 teams. It took some hours for them to solve the next 2 problems. Around hour 3 they solved another one to jump from middle of the rank list to as high as 13th position. With an anticipation of achieving best ever record on the world finals by any BUET team, they tried their best to solve more problems but in the end finished the contest with the same 4 solves and a rank of 34. Department of CSE, BUET arranged a live show at the seminar room of Information Access Center (IAC) of West Palashi Campus to watch this big event on big screen. All the enthusiastic teachers, students and family members of participants of BUET team watched this marvelous performance. The whole department is waiting for the golden boys to come back safely.

CSE Festival – 2008

The annual CSE Festival 2008 of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department of BUET has ended with a colorful and rich cultural night in BUET Auditorium on October 30, 2008. Music, dance, drama, comedy, and many more cultural items were brilliantly performed by CSE students. A jam packed audience of students, teachers, and guests enjoyed every bits and bytes of the cultural night. The cultural night was sponsored by Reve Systems.

A prize giving ceremony for Inter-University Math Olympiad, National Collegiate Programming Contest (NCPC), and Inter-University Project show was held just before the cultural night. Professor Dr. A. M. M. Safiullah, honorable vice chancellor of BUET, was the chief guest in the prize giving ceremony. Professor Dr. Md. Saidur Rahman, Head CSE Department of BUET has presided over the prize giving ceremony. Emadul Amin, Director Human Resource of Grameenphone, Feroz Mahmud, Country Manager of Microsoft Bangladesh, Dr. Shahadat Khan, CTO of Eyeball Networks, and Mahfuzur Rahman of IndexIT were present and handed over the prizes to the winners as the guest. Dr. Md. Humayun Kabir, Coordinator of CSE Festival 2008 and Associate Professor of CSE department has hosted the prize giving ceremony. From the organizers, Nashid Shahriar, student of CSE department thanked everyone for their support to make the festival a grand success.

BUET NCPC was held on October 23 and 24, 2008 on the occasion of CSE Festival 2008 and jointly sponsored by Microsoft and Eyeball. Top 52 selected teams from 30 universities including BUET, Dhaka University, Jahangirnagar University, Rajshahi University, Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology, Khulna University, Khulna University of Engineering and Technology, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, North South University, BRAC University, East West University, International Islamic University of Chittagong etc. contested in the NCPC. BUET Falcon team has secured the first position after solving 6 out of 9 programming problems in the NCPC. Tanaeem M Moosa, Md. Mahbubul Hasan, and Shahriar Rouf Nafi were the contestants in BUET Falcon team. Math Olympiad was held on October 23, 2008 and sponsored by Microsoft alone. About 200 participants from 20 different universities participated in the Math Olympiad. Md. Mahbubul Hasan of BUET has won the first prize in Math Olympiad.

To encourage the innovative ideas of CSE students and to excel their works a project show was arranged as part of the CSE festival on 29th -30th October and sponsored by Grameenphone. In the project show, total 43 projects from different universities including BUET, Dhaka University, Rajshahi University, North South University, BRAC University, Northern University and Asia Pacific University have participated. Among these 43 projects, 30 projects were in the software category and 13 projects were in the hardware category. Dr. Md. Mostofa Akbar, Associate Professor, CSE Department of BUET led the judge panel for the project competition. Other members of the panel were Md. Abdus Sattar, Assistant Professor of CSE Department BUET, Md. Mahbob Alam of Relisource, Dr. Ashfaqur Rahman of AIUB, and Masud Khan from Intel Corporation, USA. In the software category, Enterprise Communication System from BUET secured the 1st position and Low cost GPS-GPRS based Tracking System from NSU and Pen Fight from BUET secured the 2nd and 3rd positions respectively. In the hardware category, Optical Mark Reader from BUET secured the top position while Remote Controller for PC from BUET and Micro-Controller Based Wireless Crane from BUET won the 2nd and 3rd prize respectively.

A career and research talk was held on October 29, 2008 in BUET auditorium. Career and research opportunities of CSE students in the country and abroad were discussed in the talk. How to get ready for the job market and higher study and research was also discussed in the talk. Grameenphone has sponsored the research and career talk. Frode Stoldal, Chief Information Officer of Grameenphone has talked on behalf of telecom sector. Microsoft and M&H Informatics have participated in the career talk from the software industry. Dr. M. Kaykobad, Professor CSE Department of BUET and Dr. M. Mahfuzul Islam, Assistant Professor CSE Department of BUET talked on the research and higher study opportunities. Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, student of CSE department delivered a presentation by highlighting the prospects of CSE and Focusing CSE department BUET.

A souvenir is going to be published on the occasion of CSE festival. For the festival rally Samsung through IndexIT sponsored T-shirts and Teletalk sponsored Caps for the students of CSE department.

The purpose of CSE Festival was to promote good relations among the BUET CSE department and other universities and industry. The festival was successful with its view of co-operation. BUET CSE students manifested their excellence in co-curricular activities besides their glorious academic background with the support from teachers, and as a signature produced this “CSE Festival 2008”.

Inter-University Math Olympiad and National Collegiate Programming Contest 2008

Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), BUET organized an Inter-University Math Olympiad and a National Collegiate Programming Contest (BUET NCPC 2008) as a part of the CSE Festival 2008 on October 24, 2008. About 200 participants from all over the country contested in the Math Olympiad and 52 teams from 30 universities including BUET, Dhaka University, Jahangirnagar University, Rajshahi University, Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology, Khulna University, Khulna University of Engineering and Technology, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, North South University, BRAC University, East West University, International Islamic University of Chitagong etc. participated in the programming contest. Each programming team consists of 3 contestants and one coach. BUET NCPC 2008 was sponsored by Microsoft and EyeBall Networks. The Math Olympiad was sponsored by Microsoft alone. The programming contest was inaugurated by Professor Dr. A. M. M. Safiullah, the honorable Vice Chancellor of BUET. Professor Dr. M. A. Rashid Sarker, Dean Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Professor Dr. Aminul Haque, Head Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Dr. M. Kaykobad, Professor CSE Department, Dr. Muhammad Masroor Ali, Professor CSE Department, Professor Dr. Md. Saidur Rahman, Head CSE Department were present on the occasion. Mr. Farid Ahmed, Education Program Manager of Microsoft and Mr. Shahadat Khan, CTO of EyeBall Networks were present in the ceremony as guests. The program was organized by the teachers and students of CSE department and coordinated by Dr. Md. Humayun Kabir, Associate Professor of CSE Department. Manzurur Rahman Khan (Sidky) has given the full technical support for BUET NCPC 2008. The former ACM world Finalists in the country were the judges of BUET NCPC 2008. BUET Falcon team secured the top position after solving 6 out of 9 problems in the NCPC. DU Knights and NSU Arcturus secured second and third position respectively. The prize giving ceremony of Math Olympiad and BUET NCPC 2008 held on October 30, 2008.

CSE Faculty Member Awarded Distinguished Alumni Award

Dr. M. Kaykobad, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), BUET, has been awarded as a distinguished alumni by Flinders University, Australia, for his significant contributions to Computational Mathematics and to Computer Science and Engineering Education in Bangladesh.

Details of this award can be found at the following web link: http://www.flinders.edu.au/alumni/alumni-assoc/distinguished-alumni-awards.cfm

We want to take the opportunity to congratulate Dr. Kaykobad from the bottom of our heart for this great achievement.

Graduate Admission, April 2008

CSE Faculty Member Awarded Fred W. Ellersick Prize Paper Award, 2008

Dr. Reaz Ahmed, Assistant Professor, Department of CSE, BUET, has been awarded the 2008 Fred W. Ellersick Prize Paper Award by the IEEE Communications Society for the paper entitled, "Resource and Service Discovery in Large-Scale Multi-Domain Networks", which was published last year in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 1 – 30, October 2007). In addition to Dr. Reaz, the paper was co-authored by Raouf Boutaba, Jin Xiao, Youssef Iraqi, and Noura Limam.

Details of this award can be found at: http://www.comsoc.org/~awards/ellersick.html

We want to take the opportunity to congratulate Dr. Reaz and his co-authors from the bottom of our heart for this great achievement.

BUET Team Secured the 31st Position in ACM ICPC 2008

BUET Sprinter team has shown an excellent performance in ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest 2008. This time, BUET has secured 31st position in this prestigious and competitive programming contest, outperforming world famous universities like Caltech (31st), Cornell (47th), Brown (no rank), Georgia Tech (no rank), Calgary (no rank), Texas at Austin (no rank) and Wisconsin Madison (no rank). BUET team solved 4 out of 11 problems whereas the highest number of problems solved was 8 by St. Petersburg University of IT, Mechanics and Optics (rank 1). A fantastic team work of Shahriar Rouf, Md. Mahbubul Hasan and Sabbir Yousuf Sanny under the coaching of Dr. Md. Humayun Kabir, along with the best wishes of all well wishers have made this possible. The contest was hosted by University of Alberta, Canada. North American Bangladeshi Islamic Community (NABIC) was the sponsor of Dhaka-Calgary-Dhaka air-tickets for the team.

The contest started at 8 PM (BGD time), April 9 and the duration was 5 hours. Among the 11 problems (A-K), BUET team solved problems B, F, J and K. The first problem they solved was problem F and they did it very quickly. It took some hours for them to solve the next 2 problems (B and K). Finally, on the last minute, while other teams were down counting, BUET team solved their 4th problem to secure a prestigious rank. Department of CSE, BUET arranged a live show at the Multimedia Lab to watch this big event on big screen. All the enthusiastic teachers and students watched this marvelous performance till midnight. The whole department is waiting for the golden boys to come back safely.

Official result is available at: http://icpc.baylor.edu/icpc/Finals/v2/default.asp?page=results

BUET Students are going to participate in ACM-ICPC World Finals 11 years in a row

ACM-ICPC Asia Region Dhaka site champion team "BUET Sprinter" is leaving Dhaka for Banff, Alberta, Canada to participate ACM ICPC World Finals. ACM or Association for Computing Machinery is the world's first and largest scientific and educational computing society. International Collegiate Programming Contest or ICPC operates under the auspices of ACM is the top most programming contest of the world for university and college students. From 6,700 teams representing 1,821 universities in 83 countries competing at 213 sites from September to December 2007 world-wide, one hundred teams have advanced to the World Finals. Awards, prizes, scholarships, and bragging rights will be at stake for some of the world's finest university students of the computing sciences and engineering.

The 2008 ACM-ICPC World Finals will be held April 6-10, 2008, at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in Alberta, Canada, hosted by the University of Alberta. BUET Sprinter team consists of three contestants: Sabbir Yousuf Sanny, Md. Mahbubul Hasan, and Shahriar Rouf and one coach Dr. Md. Humayun Kabir. North American Bangladeshi Islamic Community (NABIC) has sponsored four Dhaka-Calgary-Dhaka air-tickets for the team. Computer Science and Engineering or CSE students of BUET are participating in the World Finals every year since 1998 and NABIC is regularly sponsoring the air tickets for BUET ACM ICPC World Finalist team.

Workshop on Algorithms and Computation - 2008

The 2nd Workshop on Algorithms and Computation (WALCOM 2008) is going to be held on February 7-8 at Dhaka, Bangladesh. WALCOM is intended to provide an international forum for researchers working in the areas of algorithms and computation. WALCOM 2008 is organized jointly by Bangladesh Academy of Sciences (BAS) and Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). The Program Committee for WALCOM 2008 consists of 17 members out of whom 15 members are from Germany, Australia, Canada, Taiwan, United Kingdom, India and Japan. WALCOM 2008 received 57 submissions among which 19 high quality papers were selected for presentation after a rigorous review process. The proceedings of WALCOM is published by Springer LNCS which is one of the leading publishers in Computer Science. Eighteen foreign participants from all over the world have come to Bangladesh to join the workshop.

The inaugural session of WALCOM 2008 will be held at 9:00 am on the 7th of February, 2008 at Council Bhaban, BUET. Prof. Dr. M. Shamsher Ali, President, Bangladesh Academy of Sciences, will grace the occasion as the Chief Guest. Prof. Dr. A. M. M. Safiullah, Honorable Vice-Chancellor, BUET will be present as the Special Guest. Prof. Shin-ichi Nakano, Gunma University, Japan and Prof. Md. Saidur Rahman, CSE, BUET are the Program Co-chairs and Prof. M. Kaykobad, CSE, BUET is the organizing chair and Dr. Masud Hasan, CSE, BUET is the organizing secretary of WALCOM 2008.

BUET becomes Champion in ACM ICPC Dhaka Site 2007

BUET Team ranked 1st in ACM ICPC (International Collegiate Programming Contest) Dhaka Site 2007. The contest was held in BCFCC on December 8, 2007. BUET Team has qualified for the World Final 2008 at Alberta, Canada in April 2008. Total 86 Teams from 33 Universities contested to take the pride to qualify for World Final 2008.

BUET Sprinter showed a splendid performance by solving 7 problems out of 10 problems. The members of BUET Sprinter are Md. Mahbubul Hasan, Sabbir Yousuf Sunny, Shahriar Rouf and S. M. Hasibul Haque (Coach).

Fudan University, China ranked 2nd and solved 6 problems. East-West University, Bangladesh ranked 3rd and solved 5 problems.

Official result is available at:

http://icpc.baylor.edu/icpc/regionals/ViewRegionalStandings.asp?ContestID=863

http://icpc.ewubd.edu

Graduate Admission, October 2007

CSE faculty members awarded prestigious scholarship

Ahmed Khurshid and Md Abul Hassan Samee, Lecturers, Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), BUET, have been awarded the new International Fulbright Science and Technology Ph.D. Award for the year 2008-09. They are the only recipients of this award from Bangladesh this year. The new Fulbright award for Ph.D. study at America's leading universities was created to attract the most highly qualified young women and men to the world's preeminent higher education institutions.

The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State sponsors the International Fulbright Science and Technology Ph.D. Award for doctoral study at top U.S. higher education institutions in science, technology, or engineering fields. Competition for this award is worldwide.

This is an occasion of great honor and pride for Department of CSE, BUET that faculty members of this department have received this award for the second consecutive year. Last year Md. Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, Assistant Professor of Department of CSE, BUET and currently a Ph.D. student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA clinched this glorious award.

Seminar on Prospects, Achievements and traditions of CSE Dept.

On the occasion of "60 Years of Engineering Education in Bangladesh" the Department of Computer Science & Engineering (CSE), BUET organized a seminar on "Prospects, Achievements and traditions of CSE Dept." on 6th November 2007 at 6:00 pm in the seminar room of Civil Building (1st floor). The Honorable Vice-Chancellor of BUET Professor Dr. A. M. M. Safiullah was the chief guest, Dean of EEE faculty Prof. S. Shahnawaz Ahmed was the special guest and Head of CSE Department, Prof. Md. Saidur Rahman was the chair. Four Speakers from CSE BUET and two speakers from the industry delivered their speech on the topic.

The speakers in the seminar highlighted the prospects and superiority of CSE Department in terms Research, Education, Alumni and national and international development. The speakers from the industry presented the increasing needs and prospects of CSE graduates in the next five years. The Vice-Chancellor appreciated the exemplary progress of CSE Department in his speech.

Seminar for Celebrating "60 Years of Engineering Education in Bangladesh"

On the occasion of "60 Years of Engineering Education in Bangladesh" the Department of CSE is going to organize a seminar on 6th Nov 2007 at 6pm at the seminar room of civil Building(1st floor). The honorable Vice-Chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Professor Dr. A. M. M. Safiullah has kindly consented to be the chief guest of the program.

BUET Excels in DIPC 2007 Programming Contest

A nationwide programming contest has been organized by Daffodil International University on July 19-20, 2007. A total of 63 teams from 30 universities have participated in the contest. Once again BUET teams have shown their excellence in programming skill in the contest. BUET teams ranked 1st, 2nd , 3rd, 8th and 14th.

BUET BlackHats has become the champion with a outstanding performance, solving five out of nine problems. BUET BlackHats team members are Shihabur Rahman, Tanaeem Muhammad Moosa and Mohammad Minhazul Alam.

BUET Asterix team, consisting of Md. Tanvir Al-Amin, Ishtiak Zaman and Tasnim Imran Sunny has become the 2nd solving four problems.

BUET JudgeCrasher team, consisting of Sabbir Yousuf Sanny, Mahbubul Hasan and Shahriar Rouf has become the 3rd solving four problems.

BUET Emerging team, consisting of Khobaib Chowdhury, Ashik Zinnat Khan and S. M. Shabab Hossain has become the 8th solving three problems.

BUET Brute Force team, consisting of Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Muntasir Mashuq and Anindya Das has become the 14th solving three problems.

Official ranklist is available here: http://daffodilvarsity.edu.bd/dipc07/

Workshop on Linux

Department of CSE, BUET Arranges Workshop on Use of Linux in Everyday Life.
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering Technology is going to arrange a workshop on Use of Linux in Everyday Life on 7th to 9th April, Saturday to Monday, for its teachers and officers.
As an initiative to create public awareness on free and open source software among the teachers and officers of this university, the workshop will focus on topics as a primary initiation to the participants. The topics to be covered are basic introduction, installation, office use, common software, software search and installation as well as perspective of open source software in the context of Bangladesh.
Honorable Vice Chancellor of BUET is acting as sponsor of the program. As a part of their responsibility towards the community all instructors of this workshop are rendering their service completely on voluntary basis.
Successful participants in the workshop will receive a certificate on the final day.

BUET at the ACM ICPC World Finals 2007

It has been a great honor for BUET to qualify for ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals for the 10th time in a row. "BUET xC33d" programming team qualified as one of the 88 teams out of over 6,000 teams competing worldwide to participate in the ACM ICPC World Finals 2007 in Tokyo, Japan. The contestants of the BUET team were Istiaque Ahmed, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman and Sabbir Yousuf Sanny - all being undergraduate students of the university. The coach of the team was Mohammad Tanvir Irfan, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. It may be mentioned that Istiaque Ahmed had the experience of participating in the 2006 World Finals held in the US.

The contest was held on March 15, 2007 at the Crystal Ball Room of Hilton Tokyo Bay. BUET team came up with 2 correct solutions. The team was placed in "Honorable Mention". Had it been the case that the team could solve one more problem, the team would have been placed in the top 40. Nevertheless, it was a sincere and all-out effort by the contestants and they deserve a great applause for taking BUET and Bangladesh, in general, to the most prestigious contest of computer programming in the world.

CSE DAY 2007

Department of CSE, BUET is going to arrange CSE DAY 2007 on 20th February, 2007 (Tuesday). There will be a panel discussion, prize giving ceremony and cultural evening in CSE DAY 2007.

Program Schedule:

Panel Discussion
- Topic: Computer Science and Engineering in Global Context
- Speakers:
  - Professor Dr. A.M.M. Safiullah
    Vice Chancellor, BUET
  - Professor Dr. Mohammad Ali Choudhury
    Dean, Faculty of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, BUET
  - Professor Dr. Muhammad Masroor Ali
    Head, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, BUET
  - Mr. Monzur M. Murshed
    Associate Professor & Head of School, Gippsland School of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia
  - Mr. Zakaria Swapan
    Chief Operating Officer, RanksTel
  - Mr. Muzahidur Hoque Abul Hasanat
    V.P, Therap (BD) Ltd.
- Venue: BUET Auditorium Seminar Room
- Time: 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Prize Distribution and Cultural Program
- Venue: BUET Central Auditorium
- Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

CSE faculty wins prestigious scholarship

Md. Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, Lecturer, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering of BUET, is a recipient of the new International Fulbright Science and Technology Award. This was announced by U.S. Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Karen Hughes on November 21. Designed to provide top-level students in science and technology with the U.S. government’s most prestigious and valuable scholarship, this new Fulbright award for Ph.D. study at America’s leading universities was created to attract the most highly qualified young women and men to the world’s preeminent higher education institutions. The announcement of the award recipients, following on the news that the United States has reversed a post-September 11 drop in student visa demand, underscores our message that the U.S. government and higher education system welcome talented international students.

Recipients from 27 countries were chosen through a rigorous, multi-tiered, merit-based selection process consisting of in-country competition and review, field and discipline merit review by top-level U.S. academic leaders, and nomination by a blue ribbon Advisory Panel, including a Nobel Laureate and university deans and presidents. Final selection was made by the Presidentially appointed Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. This year’s winners come from Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, Estonia, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Nepal, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, South Korea, St. Lucia, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, and Venezuela.

U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh Patricia A. Butenis met with the winner on Wednesday, November 29 and congratulated him personally.

Graduate Admission, October 2006

Announcement regarding Graduate Admission.

CSE Faculty Member gets 3 Awards at International Conference (SCIS & ISIS 2006)

Dr. Md. Monirul Islam, Associate Professor, Department of CSE, BUET, has been awarded 3 awards on Joint 3rd International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems and 7th International Symposium on advanced Intelligent Systems (SCIS & ISIS 2006) in the following criteria -

1. The First Prize in the Best Paper Award Competition for the paper titled "A New Algorithm to Design Multiple Hidden Layered Artificial Neural Networks", co-authored by M. Iqbal Bin Shahid, M. A. H. Akhand and Kazuyuki Murase.

2. Session Best Presentation Award for the paper titled "A Novel Two-Stage Approach for Translation, Rotation and Scale Invariant Character Recognition", co-authored by Md. Mashud Hyder, M. A. H. Akhand and Kazuyuki Murase.

3. Session Best Presentation Award for the paper titled "A Recurring Multi-Stage Evolutionary System for Balancing Exploitation and Exploration", co-authored by M. S. Alam, M. A. H. Akhand and Kazuyuki Murase.

The conference was held on September 20-24, 2006 at O-okayama Campus, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan. More than 500 people from 42 countries including USA, Canada, UK and Germany joined the conference.

BUET at ACM ICPC Regional Contest 2006

ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), Asia Regional- Dhaka Site contest 2006 was hosted by North South University, Dhaka on the 23rd of September, 2006. According to the ACM ICPC rules, the champion team of a regional contest automatically qualifies to participate at the ACM ICPC Wold Finals in the next year. In some cases, the runner-up team is also allowed to participate in the world finals.

In this year’s regional contest of Dhaka site, teams from home and abroad participated. A total of 10 problems were set out to be solved in five hours. BUET teams lived up to their expectation in this contest, even though the odds were very narrow due to their term final academic exams on the same day. BUET teams occupied three of the top ten positions, including the runner-up position. "Yin-Yang", the team from Fudan University, China emerged as the champion, solving 8 problems. BUET team "xC33d" became the runner-up solving 6 problems. BUET xC33d team members were: Istiaque Ahmed (Level-4, Term-1, CSE), Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman (Level-3, Term-2, EEE), Sabbir Yousuf Sanny (Level-3, Term-2, EEE) and coach- Mohammad Tanvir Irfan (Lecturer, Dept of CSE, BUET).

CSE Faculty Members awarded BAS Gold Medals

Honourable Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia awarded BAS (Bangladesh Academy of Sciences) gold medals to 10 renowned scientists of the country at the International Conference Centre (ICC) in Dhaka in recognition of their outstanding contributions in the field of science and technology.

Dr. M. Kaykobad, Professor, CSE, BUET, has been awarded Academy Gold Medal for Senior Scientists in Physical Sciences for the year 2004.

Dr. Md. Saidur Rahman, Associate Professor, CSE, BUET, has been awarded Academy Gold Medal for Junior Scientists in Physical Sciences for the year 2003.

BUET Excels in EWU Programming Contest

A nationwide programming contest has been organized by East West University on July 28-29, 2006. A total of 73 teams from 34 universities have participated in the contest. Once again BUET teams have shown their excellence in programming skill in the contest. Among the top five positions, BUET teams have occupied three positions, including the 1st and the 2nd positions.

BUET xC33d has become the champion with a dazzling performance, solving seven out of ten problems. BUET xC33d team members are Istiaque Ahmed, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman and Sabbir Yousuf Sanny. BUET INNOVATOR team, consisting of Shahriar Rouf, Md. Mahbubul Hasan and Khobaib Chowdhury, has become the runner-up solving six problems. It may be noted that all three members of BUET INNOVATOR team are level 1 term 1 students of CSE Department. BUET Asterix, consisting of Md. Tanvir Al Amin, Ishtiak Zaman and Sukarna Barua, has secured the 5th position solving five problems.

Md. Kamruzzaman, Lecturer, Department of CSE, BUET, has served as one of the judges of the programming contest.

Prospects of CSE

This document was prepared as a leaflet for the seminar 'Prospects of CSE' organized by Department of CSE, BUET and CSEBUET 99 Alumni Association. The seminar was held on November 26, 2005 at the BUET Central Auditorium.

CSE is

-> Computer Science
-> Computer Engineering

Software side (Science)

-> Programming and Development
-> Information System Design
-> Security
-> Operating System
-> Compiler
-> Databases
-> Artificial Intelligence
-> Bioinformatics
-> Theoretical Computer Science
-> Graph Theory
-> Simulation and Modeling
-> Networking

Hardware side (Engineering)

-> Computer Architecture
-> Digital System Design
-> VLSI
-> Computer Interfacing
-> Networking
-> Wireless Communication

CSE is Vast

-> CSE encompasses a huge array of fields from mathematics to electronics, from Logic to Artificial Intelligence
-> You cannot be a computer engineer simply by doing an M.Sc. in CSE.

CSE is INNOVATIVE

-> Every software you develop is something new.
-> Easy to do new things compared to other costly/stagnant subjects.
-> There is no single 'perfect' way to implement some idea.

CSE is NOT ONLY Training

-> CSE is Engineering

-> Best practices
-> Training
-> Innovation
-> Logic
-> Concept

-> CSE is Art

-> Creativity
-> Science + Art

CSE is FUN

-> Understanding
-> Creation
-> Innovation
-> Design
-> Development
-> Solving Problems

CSE is the BEST Engineering

-> Open Source Projects

-> The sun never sets

-> Other engineering disciplines depend on CSE

-> CAD: Computer Aided Design
-> Simulators

CSE has INFINITE APPLICATIONS

-> Databases
-> Stakeholders participated database system
-> Optimal route planning
-> Road network
-> Power Grid Design
-> E-office System
-> Inventory System
-> Time management
-> Profit maximization
-> Distant learning system
-> Online Examination and Evaluation System
-> Online Banking System
-> E-Commerce System
-> Online Travel Planning

Co-curricular Activities

-> Programming Contests

-> ACM ICPC World Finals 1998-2005 (best result in 2000: 11^th in the world)
-> Nationwide Programming Competitions

-> Software Competitions

-> 3rd position in World Engineers' Convention 2004, Shanghai, China

-> Hardware Competitions

Research

-> Around 50% research papers in the local conferences are produced by BUET CSE faculty and students

Higher Studies

-> Postgraduate studies in top universities around the world

-> Carnegie Mellon University
-> University of Texas at Austin
-> University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
-> Cornell University
-> University of California at San Diego
-> Georgia Institute of Technology
-> University of Pennsylvania
-> Purdue University
-> Yale University

-> More than 47 students from 96, 97, and 98 batches (total 162 students) are studying abroad now.
-> More than 6 BUET CSE graduates are now faculty members in US or other foreign Universities.

CSE will last forever

-> Widespread use of computers
-> Minimum demand is high
-> Need of computer engineers in all sectors
-> More and more CSE job scopes will open all the time
-> CSE jobs will not be saturated

Apparent limited job scope

-> CS graduates from some private universities are facing problem to find job for poor performance.
-> No problem faced by good engineers from private universities.
-> BUET CSE graduates are absorbed in job market even before their results are published.

Job Opportunities

-> Software Houses

-> Local
-> Multinational
-> Abroad

-> IT manager, System Manager, System Analyst, MIS officer etc. in Corporate.
-> Universities

-> Public
-> Private

-> Telecom Industry
-> Internet Service Providers (ISP)

Employment

-> Graduates working in top international software companies including

-> Microsoft: 20 persons
-> Intel: 19 persons
-> Motorola: 5 persons

-> Graduates staying in Bangladesh are in good positions. Notably: [This information is of batch 98 and 99]

-> GrameenPhone Ltd.: 8
-> AKTEL: 16
-> BanglaPhone: 6
-> RanksTel: 3
-> Eyeball Networks Inc.: 4
-> Commlink Info Tech Ltd.: 5
-> Relisource Technologies Ltd.: 7

Did you know?

-> That every single one of batch 99 is already employed
-> That their Average Salary is above 25 thousand (highest 64 thousand)
-> That most of them got employed even before their results were published

Can you imagine?

-> We are ACM World Finalists for consecutive 9 times
-> That two of our graduates got jobs in MICROSOFT even before their graduation

CSE Welcomes New Students

The Orientation Ceremony for the incoming undergraduate students was held at the Seminar Room of Civil Building on January 28, 2006. The ceremony was presided over Professor Muhammad Masroor Ali, Head of the CSE Department. Prof Md Shamsul Alam and Prof Md Abul Kashem Mia, two former heads of the department, were also present in the ceremony. At first the new students introduced themselves. Then two incoming students gave speech on behalf of all the newcomers. After that a presenation highlighting the history and the glorious achievements of the department was demonstrated. The presentation was prepared by Imranul Hoque, a lecturer of the department.

Prof. M. Masroor Ali in his speech welcomed the new students to the department and highlighted the friendly nature of the teachers of the department. He expressed his hope that the new students would be able to enhance the reputation of the department by their merit and innovation.