Message from the Director It is a great gratification for me to be the founder & first Director (acting) of Research Cell, Bangamata Sheikh Fojilatunnesa Mujib Science and Technology University (BSFMSTU), Jamalpur-2012. The bucolic serene green campus is located in the heart of Melandah Upazila, Jamalpur district. Over the last 05 years, it has been transformed into a research hub after it was born on 28 November 2017 vide act no 24 of 2017 via the 44th public university in Bangladesh. The mission of the research cell is to unleash the research activities among all faculty members of BSFMSTU to uphold the ranking and image of this university within the next few couple of years. After being born the research cell of BSFMSTU, it laid a solid platform for research activities here in this campus. Nowadays, every teacher is engaging themselves in research, publications and project work despite their academic business. It is a good sign and eventual impact of research cell activities. Although at the very beginning, it creates some anxiety and stress, at the end of the day, it provides good feelings. Thus, it is breaking the stereotype mentality of the teachers/researchers towards research. The idea of Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) rapidly changes in technologies, industries, social values, patterns and processes in the 21st century due to increasing interconnection and smart automation. In connecting this, industrial changes of technologies like artificial intelligence, gene editing and advances robotics blur the lines between the physical, digital and biological worlds. Research Cell, BSFMSTU is providing funds for the faculty members focusing on these concepts. Therefore, new technologies are being developed by potential research through Research Cell, BSFMSTU while the outreach program is set to transfer the newly developed technologies to the farmer’s field for increasing agricultural (fisheries) productivity as well as fostering science and technology to youngsters who are ready to contribute to building a smart Bangladesh. ……………………………………………………………… Dr. Mahmudul Hasan (PhD & Postdoc, Hiroshima University, Japan) Director (Acting), Bangamata Sheikh Fojilatunnesa Mujib Science and Technology University, Jamalpur-2012 Mobile: +8801714892205 E-mail: researchcell@bsfmstu.ac.bd/mhasan@bsfmstu.ac.bd
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