I Am Asif

So, when I kicked off my master's journey in Malaysia, there was this big push to churn out papers. Everyone, from research students to supervisors, was all about getting as many papers published in top journals and conferences. It got me thinking: is research just about paper counts now? Are we only doing it to snag a degree or a promotion? I always figured research should be the other way around. It's about tackling real-life problems, making lives better, easing suffering. Once we focus on that, the papers will naturally flow. But the problem starts early on, when we're picking research topics. As supervisors, we're telling our students to hop on the trend train. Look for what's hot, what's getting published a lot. But are we telling them to think about how their research can actually help the world? Nope, not really. We need to flip the script on how we approach research. It should start right from the get-go, when we're brainstorming ideas. Instead of a...

As a part the  2023 5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES FOR INDUSTRY 5.0 (STI 2023)  conference at  Green University of Bangladesh , we recently had an engaging dialogue between some brilliant minds from the fields of technology, industry and academia. Together we explored the realms of technology advancement, local expertise growth, collaboration strategies, sustainability practices, and Bangladesh's trajectory for the next decade. We had the privilege of having with us Prof. Dr.  Khondaker A. Mamun, PhD , a veteran in the fields of technology development, entrepreneurship and academic research; one of the leading AI experts from our own country and founder of  Intelligent Machines ,  Mohammad Oli Ahad ; visionary young industrialist  Golam Murshed ; and industry expert with a vast experience Engr. Md. Selim Reza. The session was chaired by none other than  Prof. Md.G. Samdani Fakir , our former vice chancellor and a legendar...

Never thought I'd be awarded in any way for my research work, but quite amazingly that happened! Alhamdulillah!! Really delighted to have received Research Award 2021 from Green University of Bangladesh. It's truly an inspiring recognition for me. 

Thesis Valley is a place of melancholy. A place where day and night are the same. You don't get to care if the sun and the moon are replaced by other planetary objects. Time is only the count of hours, how many you've passed and how many left, there's no time of day! In Thesis Valley, you trudge along, reluctantly, yet relentlessly. A few inches from your head, dangles a white curtain with ever increasing strange black symbols. In the first days of your time here, the curtain is mostly blank. And it's that emptiness that panics you! It drives you on with a hunger, a strange intrinsic urge in the gut to fill that white curtain with more and more symbols. That's the first village in Thesis Valley. Here you dig up the ground, you look into every alley, you turn every rock to find more things to turn into symbols to add to your curtain. And the more you walk, the more you pick up and more is the curtain filled with black. You soon find there are other sources to fi...