Founded in 1993, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) is one of the oldest and leading private universities in Bangladesh where academic excellence is a tradition, teaching a passion and lifelong learning a habit. IUB currently has more than 9,800 undergraduate and graduate students and over 13,700 alumni. The students of IUB experience an exciting academic life with copious opportunities to explore and nurture their innate talent.
Live in Field Experience (LFE) is a signature course of IUB. It allows IUB students, most of whom come from urban settings, to have an immersive experience of everyday life in rural Bangladesh. Unique in Bangladesh, the overarching idea, which owes its roots to some of the leading social thinkers of this region, is to bridge the gap in knowledge that an urban student has about their rural counterparts. As part of the LFE, which is a mandatory course, small groups of students (usually 5-10, mix of male and female, and English and Bangla medium backgrounds) spend a certain amount of time at different locations in Bangladesh and experience life in the fields.
IUB’s Nishorgo Nondon wins Gold in Int’l Math Challenge
05/05/2024
Nishorgo Nondon, a second-year Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) student at Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) has won the Gold Honour in the recently concluded International Youth Math Challenge 2023 (IYMC).
Nondon won the same honour last year as well. This year, securing the top 1% position among more than 13,000 participants from 98 countries, Nondon has remarkably solved 19 out of 20 problems in an impressive display of mathematical prowess.
Apart from Nondon, CSE students Sabah Naurin, who won the Bronze Honour by placing in the top 30%, and Amit Bikram Roy, who made it to the final round, also performed well. Notably, Tanvir Ahmed Tanmoy, student of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), who competed on behalf of IUB, earned a Gold Honour.
IUB CSE department Professor Ashraful Amin, PhD, also Director of the Centre for Computational and Data Sciences (CCDS), supervised and mentored the participants throughout the competition.
IYMC is one of the biggest independent online global math competitions that is not affiliated to any organization or institution. Students from high schools and universities from around the world were divided into two groups: Junior (under 18 years) and Youth (18+). IUB’s Nishorgo Nondon competed in the Youth group.
The competition had several rounds of varying numbers of math problems and research paper analysis on topics such as geometry, algebra, differential equations, number theory, prime numbers, and so on.
IUB’s Nishorgo Nondon wins Gold in Int’l Math Challenge 1