The faculty members of United International University are engaged in multifarious research endeavors funded by different national and international agencies as well as UIU’s own funding. The list of research activities being carried out by the UIU faculty members are as follows:

 

 List of UIU-Funded Research Activities:

SL Title of the Project Name of Principal Investigator Grant Amount
1 Application of Multi-facet Performance Measurement System: A Framework for the Ready Made Garments of Bangladesh Prof. Dr. Hasnan Ahmed,
Professor – School of Business & Economics
Taka 6,00,000
2 Quality education and employee retention practices among Private Universities in Bangladesh: Mediating effects of organization commitment (OC) and perceived organizational support (POS) on HRM practices and employee retention Dr. Mohd Hasanur Raihan Joarder, Associate Professor – School of Business & Economics & Director – BBA Program Taka 9,00,000
3 An Assessment of Impact of Social Performance of Microfinance Organizations on the Financial Performance of Microfinance Ventures Dr. Mohammad Badruddoza Mia, Asst. Professor – School of Business & Economics and Coordinator – MBA & EMBA Programs Taka 5,86,500
4 An Analysis of Tourism Potentials, Impediments and Destination Competitiveness: A Case Study on Bangladesh Mr. Md. Kaium Hossain,
Asst. Professor – School of Business & Economics
Taka 599,700
5 Rising Consumerism: Understanding the ‘Culture Shift’ of Contemporary Bangladesh Mr. Muhammad Rehan Masoom,
Asst. Professor – School of Business & Economics
Taka 3,60,000
6 Financial Consequences of Widowhood in Bangladesh: A Cross-sectional Study Mr. Raihan U. Amin,
Adjunct Faculty – School of Business & Economics
Taka 487,700.00
7 Investigation of critical failure factors affecting the ERP implementation in textile and apparel industry of Bangladesh Ms. Fahim Tasneema Azad, Lecturer – School of Business & Economics Taka 5,10,000
8 Preparation and Characterization of Plasmonic Metal Nanoparticles Deposited on Glass Prof. Dr. Hasan Sarwar,
Professor – CSE Dept.
Taka 12,00,000
9 Bangla Onubad: An English to Bengali Machine Translator Prof. Dr. Mohammad Nurul Huda, Professor – CSE Dept. & Coordinator – MSCSE Program Taka 5,10,000
10 Investigations to enhance movement decoding performance from neural signals towards development of brain machine interface (BMI) Dr. Khondaker Abdullah Al Mamun,Associate Professor – CSE Dept. Taka 5,50,000
11 Smart Computing and Data Storage at the Edge Cloud Dr. Salekul Islam, Associate Professor
& Head – CSE Dept.
Taka 4,00,000
12 Novel All-Carbon Based MIS Solar Cell Dr. Md. Iqbal Bahar Chowdhury,Associate Professor – EEE Dept. Taka 3,60,000
13 Development of novel features of EEG signal in spatial, spectral and temporal domain, and application of their fusion for BCI Dr. M.K. Masukur Rahman,
Associate Professor – EEE Dept.
Taka 2,70,000
14 Design theory of optical mode converter using photonic bandgap structure Dr. Intekhab Alam,
Asst. Professor – EEE Dept.
Taka 2,40,000
15 Nonlinear Collective Waves in Highly Charged Dusty Plasma Prof. Dr. Abu Saklayen,
Professor of Physics
Taka 3,60,000

 

List of Research Activities funded by National & International Agencies:

 

SL Title of the Project Funded By Name of Principal Investigator Grant Amount Remarks
1 Strong Ties European Union Erasmus Mundus Program Prof. Dr. M. Rezwan Khan, Vice Chancellor
& Professor – EEE Dept., UIU
(Country Coordinator)
2.8 million Euro This project has 6 European and 11 Asian partners. 9 Bangladeshi students, faculties and staffs went to different European countries.
2 INTACT European Union Erasmus Mundus Program Prof. Dr. M. Rezwan Khan, Vice Chancellor
& Professor – EEE Dept., UIU (Int’l Joint Coordinator)
2.8 million Euro This project has 5 European and 12 Asian partners. 15 Bangladeshi students, faculties and staffs went to different European countries.
3 LEADERS European Union Erasmus Mundus Program Prof. Dr. M. Rezwan Khan, Vice Chancellor
& Professor – EEE Dept., UIU
(International Joint Coordinator)
3.01 million Euro There are 10 European and 10 Asian partners. It is an ongoing project still in its initial phase. A total of 15 Bangladeshi students, faculties and staffs expected to get opportunity to visit/study in Europe.
4 The Next Generation of Low Cost Energy-efficient Appliances and Devices to Benefit the Bottom of the Pyramid DFID and EPSRC, UK
Lead Partner: Open University, UK
Prof. Dr. M. Rezwan Khan, Vice Chancellor
& Professor – EEE Dept., UIU
(Country Coordinator)
GBP 1.1 million
5 Solar DC Nano Grids: An Appropriate Solution for Meeting Community Needs? Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Lead Partner: Loughborough University, UK
Prof. Dr. M. Rezwan Khan, Vice Chancellor
& Professor – EEE Dept., UIU
(Country Coordinator)
GBP 4,80,000
6 eLINK European Union Erasmus Mundus Program Prof. Dr. Chowdhury Mofizur Rahman,
Pro-Vice Chancellor
& Professor – CSE Dept., UIU
(Country Coordinator)
5.5 million Euro This project had 5 European and 6 Asian partners. Out of 334 scholarships, 85 Bangladeshi students, faculties and staffs went to different European universities and pursued their study/research for a period of 10/12 months. Scholarship amount were 1000 Euro to 2500 Euro per month excluding tuition fees, insurance and travel expenses.
7 cLINK European Union Erasmus Mundus Program Prof. Dr. Chowdhury Mofizur Rahman,
Pro-Vice Chancellor and Professor – CSE Dept., UIU
(International Joint Coordinator)
2.5 million Euro This project has 6 European and 8 Asian partners. Out of 112 scholarships, 22 Bangladeshi students, faculties and staffs went to different European universities and pursued their study/research for a period of 10/24 months. Scholarship amount were 1000 Euro to 2500 Euro per month excluding tuition fees, insurance and travel expenses.
8 FUSION European Union Erasmus Mundus Program Prof. Dr. Chowdhury Mofizur Rahman,
Pro-Vice Chancellor and Professor – CSE Dept., UIU
(International Joint Coordinator)
2.8 million Euro This project has 9 European and 11 Asian partners. Out of 106 Asia to EU scholarships, 15 Bangladeshi students, faculties and staffs went to different European universities and pursued their study/research for a period of 10/27 months. Scholarship amount were 1000 Euro to 2500 Euro per month excluding tuition fees, insurance and travel expenses.
9 Design and Study of a Solar PV Boat Infrastructure Development Company Ltd. (IDCOL) Prof. Dr. S.M. Lutful Kabir, Dean – School of Science & Engineering
& Professor – EEE Dept., UIU
Taka 45,17,000
10 An Intelligent System for Detecting Electricity Theft United Trust
(A Trust of United Group)
Prof. Dr. S.M. Lutful Kabir, Dean – School of Science & Engineering
& Professor – EEE Dept., UIU
Taka 10,00,000
11 Development of Bangla Optical Character Recognizer Access to Information Programme, Prime Minister’s Office, GoB Prof. Dr. Hasan Sarwar,
Professor – Dept. of CSE, UIU
Taka 23,00,000
Refreshable Digital Braille Display System Information A2I-II Prime Minister’s Office,
GoB
Mr. Md. Arif Reza Anwary,
Asst. Professor – CSE Dept., UIU (On Study Leave)
Taka 23,45,000
12 e-ECG: Development of ECG measurement and data Bangladesh Initiative (BDI), Texas Prof. Dr. Raqibul Mostafa,
Professor & Head – EEE Dept., UIU
$600 and two development boards to build e-ECG prototype system
13 Computer-Aided Diagnosis and Classification of Breast Cancer in Digitized Mammograms United Trust
(A Trust of United Group)
Prof. Dr. Raqibul Mostafa,
Professor & Head – EEE Dept., UIU
Taka 2,42,500
14 Handwritten Arabic Character Recognition Using Sparse Image Dept. of EE, University of Tabuk, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Dr. Abu Sayeed A. Huque,
Former Asst. Professor – Dept. of EE, University of Tabuk, Saudi Arabia
Taka 5,88,000
15 Extraction of Fetal Electrocardiogram (fECG) from Abdominal ECG Recordings using Advanced Machine Learning Techniques for Signal Processing Dept. of EE, University of Tabuk, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Dr. Abu Sayeed A. Huque,
Former Asst. Professor – Dept. of EE, University of Tabuk, Saudi Arabia
21,000 Rials
16 Solar PV-Diesel Hybrid Mini Cold Storage for Rural Off-grid Areas of Bangladesh Infrastructure Development Company Ltd. (IDCOL) Dr. Intekhab Alam,
Asst. Professor – Dept. of EEE, UIU
Taka 29,83,500
17 Establishment of a 16 kWp Solar PV Mini-grid Laboratory at United International University World Bank and IDCOL Mr. Md. Shahriar Ahmed Chowdhury,
Director – Centre for Energy Research & Asst. Professor – Dept. of EEE, UIU
(Project In-charge)
Taka 1,10,00,000
18 Community Based Decentralized DC Nanogrids for Combined Household and Productive Use World Bank and IDCOL Mr. Md. Shahriar Ahmed Chowdhury,
Director – Centre for Energy Research & Asst. Professor – Dept. of EEE, UIU
Taka 55,84,000
19 Smart Irrigation System with Prepaid Billing and Remote Monitoring World Bank and IDCOL Mr. Md. Shahriar Ahmed Chowdhury,
Director – Centre for Energy Research & Asst. Professor – Dept. of EEE, UIU
Taka 79,86,600
20 Piloting and evaluation of DC Nano grids GIZ and National University of Singapore Prof. Peter Adelmann,
University of Ulm – Germany
1,00,000 Euro
21 Bangladesh Energy and Emission Modeling (BD 2050) UK Department of Energy and Climate Change Dr. Monjur Mourshed,
Professor – Cardiff University, UK
GBP 1,03,000
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