ECE 499: Senior Design I and II
Course Description & Objectives
Outcome-based Education (OBE)
Teaching Staff
Instructor
Md. Shahriar Karim
Office location: SAC 1045 B
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Lectures
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Sample Project Areas
Machine Learning, Computational Imaging: Theories and Applications
Image restoration, object detection, classification under extreme conditions such as low-photon imaging, and camouflage conditions
IOT-enabled automation for agricultural application, primary education and sustainable development
Low-resource natural language processing: Natural Language Processing (NLP) research remains at a rudimentary level for languages and societies that lack sufficient annotated data and computational resources. The NLP research has not experienced much success in non-dominant languages. The state-of-the-art pre-trained models, for instance, BERT and its variants, are memory intensive and GPU-dependent. These models require a large amount of annotated data that is often unavailable for low-resource languages. So, NLP applications in low-resource languages and environments require additional tuning and alternative mechanisms and models.
User-centred design of digital technologies for low-and-semi literate community: Growth of internet and mobile technologies have become a powerful tool to improve socio-economic status of people. However, one of the major challenges that hinders the wide use of digital platforms is the inherent discomfort of low-literate and unskilled people about digital applications. Relevant projects should implement a user-centered development cycle and identify a few issues that may be useful for the other developers targeting rural or low-literate user group for their digital technologies.
Biological circuit design and gene regulatory network: Species development requires cell differentiation, cell-cell communication, and numerous other biophysical processes to generate complex patterns. Cells frequently respond to signals and achieve specific cellular identity. These signals also have many regulators that affect the signaling dynamics and its exquisite details, creating a complex network of signaling molecules, and regulators. It is imperative to disseminate these biophysical processes to develop programmable cells capable of performing specific tasks or producing the phenotypical responses frequently observed in natural cells.
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