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UIU launches research and innovation week with seminar

January 24, 2025

United International University (UIU) is a front-runner in Innovation and Leadership among private universities in Bangladesh. Research and  Innovation (Rand I) week started with an Exclusive Seminar held yesterday at the UIU Campus, United City, Madani Avenue, Dhaka.

 

 

Professor Dr Abul Kashem Mia, Vice Chancellor of UIU presided over the ceremony. Prof. M. Zahid Hasan – Eugene Higgins, Professor of Physics at Princeton University and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, was the programme’s special guest. While, Professor Emeritus Dr M Rezwan Khan, Executive Director of IAR, UIU and Chairman of Power Grid, Bangladesh; Professor Dr. Hamidul Haq, Dean, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, UIU, Professor Dr Hasan Sarwar, Dean, School of Science and Engineering, UIU and Dr. Zulfiqur Rahman, Registrar of UIU were present in the programme. The welcome address was delivered by Professor Dr Khandaker Abdullah Al Mamun, Director of the Institute of Research, Innovation, Incubation and Commercialization (IRIIC), UIU.

 

Inauguration of the week with Professor M Zahid Hasan 

In the programme, Professor M Zahid Hasan conducted an exclusive seminar on ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution and Future Society: The Transformative Impact of Changing Technologies’. He said that quantum technology will be the most powerful thing in the future. Human life and structure have evolved from this technology. He also discussed the implications of AI, quantum science, and other scientific advancements in the seminar.
 
Professor M Zahid Hasan has written over two hundred and eighty peer-reviewed journal articles, being the most cited experimenter in the research areas – the search and discovery of novel phases of matter, emergent new particles, novel quantum effects, exotic superconductivity, quantum magnetism, and Ultrafast and Nanoscale quantum phenomena among others. He worked at Stanford’s SLAC National Accelerator and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and received the 2020 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award. He has received the American Competitiveness and Innovation Fellowship “for leadership in the field of physics” by the U.S. National Science Foundation. He is listed in the “World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds List” from 2014 onward.

The programme included the heads of Departments, Directors, Faculty Members, Researchers, Officials, and Students, among others.