Research

Research Interest

• Machine Learning and Deep Learning

• Human-Computer Interaction

Current Research Projects

• Optical character recognition

• Mental health and Technology

Publications

NOTE: My legal name (Abdul Kawsar Tushar) appears on my publications.

• Abdul Kawsar Tushar, Akm Ashiquzzaman, Afia Afrin, and Md. Rashedul Islam, "A Novel Transfer Learning Approach upon Hindi, Arabic, and Bangla Numerals Using Convolutional Neural Networks," Computational Vision and Bio Inspired Computing Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics, pp. 972–981, 2018. [Paper Link]

• Abdul Kawsar Tushar, Iffat Jahana Antara, Dipto Das, Priyank Chandra, Tanjir Rashid Shoron, Md Munirul haque, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, ""We Need More Power to Stand Up": Designing to Combat Stigmatization of the Caregivers of Children with Autism in Urban Bangladesh", 11th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD 2020), June 17-20. [pdf]

  • Abdul Kawsar Tushar, Akm Ashiquzzaman, Afia Afrin, and Md. Rashedul Islam, "A Novel Transfer Learning Approach upon Hindi, Arabic, and Bangla Numerals using Convolutional Neural Networks", International Conference on Computational Vision and Bio Inspired Computing (ICCVBIC 2017), 2017 in Tamil Nadu, India. (published in Springer - Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics; indexed in Scopus) [pdf]

• Abdul Kawsar Tushar, Akm Ashiquzzaman, and Md. Rashedul Islam, "Faster Convergence and Reduction of Overfitting in Numerical Hand Sign Recognition using DCNN", fifth IEEE Region 10 (Asia Pacific) Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10HTC), 2017 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.