The ICT4D Research Center kindly invites staff of BDU to apply for this call for proposals for possible funding. The new research proposal shall address existing problems using ICT-related remedies and have a special relevance to development of the country. The proposals should be in line with the research thematic areas of the research center: Natural Language Processing, Wireless and Mobile Communication, e-Service and Artificial Intelligence. The final output of the research must be published in a reputable journal.
Please submit your research proposals to the ICT4D Research Center in a hard copy (PhD Building, 2nd floor, Room #204) and soft copy (ict4dbit@gmail.com or ict4dbit@bdu.edu.et) before August 10, 2020.
Eligibility for proposal writing:
- Be a staff member of BDU.
- Researcher who successfully submitted all previous BDU funded research projects, in case if she/he was funded in the previous budget years.
Requirements:
The proposal shall involve at least three researchers.
- The researchers shall have a reputable publication record in indexed and peer reviewed journals.
- The proposal must have a justifiable relevance to the development of the country.
- Research proposals must be within thematic areas identified by ICT4D Research Center. They are listed below based on their priority across and within thematic areas.
- The written proposal must be strictly according to the BiT’s research proposal format.
Note: Multidisciplinary research proposals are highly encouraged.
For any information, please contact ICT4D Research Center which is located at Poly Campus, PhD Building, Second floor, Room # 204.
ICT4D Research Centre Research Thematic Areas
1. Artificial Intelligence
- Optical character recognition
- Reasoning based system
- Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems
- Object identification and recognition
- Robotics, Perception and Vision
- Machine Learning and Data Mining
2. e-Service
- E-Health
- E-Agriculture
- E-Education
- E-Government
3. Wireless and Mobile Communication
- Wireless sensor and Internet of things (IoT) technology
- Mobile applications and systems
- Intelligent Transportation particularly traffic safety
- Software Defined Networking
- Energy efficiency in mobile and wireless communication
4. Natural Language Processing
- Text processing
- Speech recognition and synthesis
- Information access using natural language
- Machine translation