Detection of Covid: Ex-IUB student-led team wins award in Thailand

A digital innovation project designed by an IUB alumnus-led team to promote the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for Covid-19 detection has won the Technovation Prize at the 2022 SDG Open Hack Bangkok, said a press release.

The team, called "ShiatsuOne", led by IUB EEE alumnus Navid Bin Ahmed, has also won the Beautiful Life Championship award at the competition for displaying strategic scalability and long-term business plan.

The competition was organised in hybrid mode from July 1-3, 2022 from Bangkok, Thailand by Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand; Swiss non-profit Open Geneva; United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR); and the University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Team leader Navid, who got his BSC and MSC degrees in Electronic and Electrical Engineering (EEE) from IUB in 2016 and 2019, respectively, is joining GroundUP.AI in Singapore as an embedded firmware engineer this month.

The other members of the team are: Aiman Lameesa and Supasin Jiraprakobchai from AIT; and Nafia Islam Faria from Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP).

They will now get scholarships and incubation facilities to continue research and development at the laboratory of AIT.