Innovation Challenge Season 20

Hosted proudly by the NSU ACM Student Chapter, Innovation Challenge Season 20 is the definitive capstone exhibition for final-year ECE students (CSE499B). The event challenges students to transform months of academic research and rigorous revision into functional, real-world technological solutions.\n\nBy bringing together top-tier faculties, industry professionals, and student builders, IC 20 provides a launchpad for networking, career opportunities, and direct industry exposure, strengthening the crucial bridge between academia and the professional tech sector.\n\nCompetition Format\nThe challenge tests technical ambition and problem-solving through a rigorous two-phase evaluation process:\n\n\tRound One (Online Submission): Teams submit detailed project ideas that are evaluated on ingenuity, use-case impact, and uniqueness. From a highly competitive applicant pool, the Top 21 projects are selected to advance.\n\tFinal Round (Live Exhibition): The advancing teams demonstrate their functional projects in person at the NSU Plaza Area. Participants must defend their design choices, technical execution, and project viability to a panel of expert judges.\n\nDistinguished Industry Judges\nA core mission of the Innovation Challenge is connecting aspiring innovators with accomplished professionals. We extend our deepest appreciation to our distinguished Industry Judges for Summer 2026:\n\n\t- Mr. Monzurul Karim Khan – Chairman, Biometrics.BD Limited\n\t- Mr. Mohammad Sakib Ullah – Senior Manager, Summit Communications Limited\n\t- Mr. Sakib Rushdi – CEO, Reemak Engineering\n\nTheir extensive professional experience, valuable insights, and constructive perspectives greatly contributed to the evaluation process. Through their thoughtful assessment, participating students gained meaningful exposure to industry expectations and the practical significance of technical excellence. We sincerely thank them for their valuable time, expertise, and contribution to making the event a memorable and impactful experience for our participants.\n\nSeason 20 Winners\nInnovation this season was defined by how well teams understood real-world problems and executed practical, high-impact solutions. Congratulations to the teams who took home top honors:\n\nChampion\n\tProject: Refuelytics: AI-powered Smart Fuel Dispensing and Monitoring System\n\tTeam: Md. Nazmul Hasan Sakib, Abir Bin Faruque, Sakib Ahmed Shishir, Sakila Anjum\n\nFirst Runner-Up\n\tProject: Many Eyes, One Frame: Training-Free Video Understanding with Cross-View Consistency Graphs\n\tTeam: Md. Abir Hossain, Ohid Reza Bondon, Sabrina Sabnam Farhana, Nazifa Tasnim Mahee\n\nSecond Runner-Up\n\tProject: KrishokChat: A Safety-Aware Agricultural Intelligence System for Bangladeshi Farmers with Field-Collected Datasets\n\tTeam: Khan Raiyan Ibne Reza, Sanjana Aktar Maria, Shakil Ahmed\n\nBest Innovative Idea\n\tProject: LabDesk: An Autonomous Agent for Intelligent Lab Exam Proctoring\n\tTeam: Sudipto Roy, Aqib Ahmed, Azmain Iqtidar Arnob, Towhidul Islam\n\nBest Poster Design Team\n\tProject: GHOST: A Generative Homomorphic Oblivious Spiking Transformer for End-to-End Private AI Inference\n\tTeam: Arefin Amin, Fatema Tabassum Elma, Ratul Hasan Ankon