IUB faculty wins Best Presentation and Best Reviewer Awards at ICCCAS 2022

Dr. Md Kafiul Islam, Associate Professor at the Department of EEE of IUB, has won the Best Presentation and Best Reviewer Awards at 11th International Conference on Communications, Circuits and Systems (ICCCAS 2022), held (virtually) from Singapore during May 13-15, 2022. He won the first of these two awards at the technical Session 3, which was titled "Intelligent Image Processing and Application".
ICCCAS 2022 was co-sponsored by the Sensors and Systems Society of Singapore, the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, and the Singapore Institute of Electronics.
On behalf of his students, Dr. Kafi presented a paper titled "Skin Disease Screening System based on Smartphone Captured Images using Deep Learning". The paper was authored by Bassma, Rizuan Ahmed Rifat and Md Kafiul Islam. The research work was part of an Undergraduate Final Year Design Project performed at IUB’s Department of EEE in 2021 by Bassma and Rizuan Ahmed Rifat under the supervision of Dr. Kafi. One best presentation was selected from each technical session of the conference on the basis of the following criterias: originality, applicability, technical merit, PPT, and presentation clearness. The session was chaired by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Shalli Rani from Chitkara University, India.
In addition to that, Dr. Kafi was also one of four TPC members to have received the Best Reviewer Award. The selection for this was based on the number of papers reviewed; quality of suggestions/comments given; swiftness of response to the emails sent by the Conference Secretary, and overall contribution to delivering a successful conference. Both awards were handed over virtually to Dr. Kafi by the Conference Committee Chair, Prof. Maode Ma, IET Fellow, Qatar University.