Bangladeshi scientist awarded for developing critical software

[Riyad]

Youth

Bangladeshi scientist awarded for developing critical software
BSS . Dhaka | Update: 16:12, Sep 04, 2016

A Bangladeshi computer scientist has been awarded in the United States for developing software and theoretical underpinning needed to help convert algae into biofuel.

Md Tamjidul Hoque, an assistant professor of the computer science department at the University of New Orleans (UNO), USA, has been awarded $141,453 by the Louisiana Board of Regents Industrial Ties Research Subprogram for developing the software tools and theoretical underpinning needed to help convert algae into biofuel.

The grant also has a three-year institutional match of $36,720, according to a message received in Dhaka.

Hoque said algae are found to have good potential for providing biofuel at a higher rate compared to any other plants.

"Algae can be developed as an excellent microbial cell factory that can harvest solar energy and convert atmospheric carbon-dioxide to useful products and thus can establish the missing link in the fuel-cycle," he said.

Hoque's project is a collaboration among UNO, BHO Technology and the Louisiana Emerging Technology Center in Baton Rouge. His lab will develop advanced algorithms for analysing and optimizing gene regulatory network-based biofuel production modeling in algae.

Hoque is also the principal investigator with co-principle investigator Shengru Tu, a professor of computer science of the University of New Orleans (UNO), on a $60,073 grant from the NASA Stennis Space Center to develop an automated tool to help NASA improve management and marketing of its intellectual properties portfolio.

A team of experts manually identified roughly 1,500 patents held by NASA, currently categorized into 15 categories. Using this grant, Dr Hoque and Tu will create more precise and user-friendly search tools that will enable users to more easily discover relevant intellectual property belonging to NASA.

Hoque, son of late Shamsul Hoque of Louhajong in Munshiganj district, received his BSc and MSc degrees in computer science and engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 1998 and 2002 respectively.

Hoque earned his PhD degree in information technology from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, in 2008. From 2007 to 2011, he was a research fellow with Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. From 2011 to 2012, he was a post-doctoral fellow with Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, USA.

Since his joining UNO, as of now, Hoque obtained totaling about $607,086 grants for his research.

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[UKBengali]

Hope he comes back to BD one day to contribute to the progress of the country.

 

[kobiraaz]

The trend is going up, Almost all of my buet friends are in United States right now. If the present trend continues, by 2040 we will have a lot of successful Bangladeshi figures in world arena like this man

 

[TopCat]

Bad journalism without any clue. He is a professor at a University and he must secure some funding to keep his career afloat. The amount is very meagre compared to the average projects in US universities.

 

[Nabil365]

The trend is going up, Almost all of my buet friends are in United States right now. If the present trend continues, by 2040 we will have a lot of successful Bangladeshi figures in world arena like this man

Come and check Singapore.More than 500 Naval engineers and architects from BUET alone,working here.

 

[Michael Corleone]

Don't create opportunities for us young generations Bangladesh govt. and keep celebrating our success for some other country and be high with your thoughts about 71 all the time. Good job Bangladesh good job.

And you bangladeshis were pissed at me for that rant on Bangladesh and its people.