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Abu Anas Shuvom, Founder Chairman at SIGMIND

Abu Anas shuvom has been completed his graduation in Mechanical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 2016. During his final year, his research work has been published in SAE 2015 World Congress which is the largest Automotive Engineering conference being held in Detroit, Michigan since 1930. For his thesis work, he has also been recognized as a Highly Recommended Entrant in Global Undergraduate Awards 2015 which is the only pan discipline academic award program in the world. He is the first one from Bangladesh to be nominated for the award in Engineering category. He has also been served as an Engineering Panel Judge on that Award program in the following year. Since graduation, he has been walked in the path of entrepreneurship in association with Connecting Startups Bangladesh 2016 with the company he founded named SIGMIND. In his entrepreneurship career, he has been received numerous awards including Startup Bangladesh Award 2017, 2nd

Virtual Immortality

We all know the immense pain of losing someone close to our heart to death. When the dead person also remains our Facebook friend, its hard to admit that they won’t replay back to them anymore. What if people could chat with the dead person on his/her “Remembering” page to better know about their values & interests? It might sound fancy, but technological revolutions enable us to make fictions into reality. The idea of “Virtual Self” isn’t very new, but the implementation would be significant. “Virtual Self” is a Deep Learning based technology which can replicate someones reply if trained on his/her chat history on social medias, specially Facebook. We have created a Character level language model with deep neural network which could be trained with anyones Facebook data, specifically chat history. After some parametric optimization, the language model works pretty well creating “reply message” to user queries by itself. The “Virtual Self” model could be furt

My Journey as a Researcher to Entrepreneur

Being an enthusiastic and passionate researcher and developer in the field of Mechatronics and Robotics field, I had participated on different Robotics competitions including TECHFEST International Robotics Challenge arranged by IIT Mumbai in 2013 and placed 4th among 25 teams. On that competition , I was the team leader and developed a manual and an autonomous robot that worked synchronously to complete different objectives including solving a 5x5 grid to locate, pick and drop objects on the shortest path. The autonomous and manual robots had to work in synergy to maximize points while avoiding dead zones. I had written the whole embedded software code as the team leader which included small scale BFS algorithms for path planning. The code has been sourced at github (https://github.com/xhuvom/Grid_Solving_Robot) During my final year undergraduate courses, I had done a research as the lead author on improving automotive engine efficiency using machine learning metho

Mass Sureillance at Scale

Question: Can you capture all the faces in this massively crowded rally? Me: Hold my beer ...

No one remain hidden

You must have known that the first major legal challenge in the UK over police use of automated facialrecognition surveillance has begun in Cardiff just yesterday. In other side, police in London conducted a public street trial with facial recognition cameras. A man who covered his face as he walked by the cameras was stopped by officers, forced to submit to being photographed, and then arrested on a charge of public disorder after complaining loudly. In US, opposition to Amazon's sale of its facial recognition technology to US police forces is set to come to a head at its annual general meeting on Wednesday. San Francisco , long at the heart of the technology revolution, took a stand against potential abuse on Tuesday by banning the use offacial recognition software by the police and other agencies. We can really see that the mass facial recognition technologies are facing serious controversies as opposed to China, where social credit system relies on facial recogni

What I've felt, what I've known!!

Abu Anas Ibn Samad has been graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. The founder and CEO of the startup is Abu Anas Ibn Samad, an expert in Mechatronics, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence investing his skills and experience on developing such high end product. He has been developed numerous projects from and outside academic curriculum during his undergraduate years. He has been participated on IRC Techfest 2013, the most enigmatic Robotics competition in South Asia as a team leader. He has some deep research experiences in applying machine learning in automotive industry with publications on renowned conferences and journals. During his undergraduate years, he had a technical paper published on the SAE 2015 World Congress and Exhibition, the most prestigious Automotive conference in the World. Moreover, for his undergraduate thesis paper, he was recognized as a Highly Commended entrant on the Undergraduate Awards 2015 which is t