Welcome to 4biw!

The 4th session of the BIRDS International Workshop (4BIW) to be held from November 25 to 28, 2019, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. This annual international event of BIRDS Network is being organized jointly by the Brac University, Bangladesh in cooperation with Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan & Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Aviation and Aerospace University, Bangladesh. The BIW has become the most important international and interdisciplinary workshop aims to create the path for collaboration and enables the sustainability of the BIRDS community in the field of space engineering. The venue for the inauguration program will be Pan Pacific Sonargaon 107 Kazi Nazrul Islam Ave, Dhaka 1215, Bangladesh, and for other programs, the venue will be the BRAC Centre Inn 75 Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Speakers

Dr. Pom
Talk Title: OWLSAT project: High school student satellites project – The 1st Tiny BIRDS project in Thailand
Phongsatorn Saisutjarit,
King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok

Diego Herbin STALDER DÍAZ.
Talk Title: The Status of Paraguayan capacity-building in basic space technology.
Assistant professor
Engineering(www.ing.una.py) and Polytechnic(www.cc.pol.una.py)
School at the National University of Asunción
Research Director at the Paraguayan Space Agency.

Adolfo Chaves-Jiménez
Talk Title: The TEC Space Program: a university approach for the utilization of space as a tool of development in Costa Rica
Coordinator, Space Systems Engineering Laboratory (SETEC Lab)
Costa Rica Institute of Technology

Kavindra Jayawardena
Talk Title: After Sri Lanka’s Raavana-1 Next Mission of Nano satellite Road Map
Director Communication Engineering

Mary Ann Constante
Talk Title: Fostering an Ecosystem for Space Science and Technology
Applications in the Philippines
STAMINA4Space (formerly PHL-Microsatellite Program)
Electrical and Electronics Engineering Institute (EEEI)
Velasquez St., University of the Philippines

Moutaman
Talk Title: Trends to Enhance Throughput of Data Link in Cube Satellites.
Sudan

Tsolmon Renchin
Talk Title: Small Satellite and Remote Sensing Application for disaster monitoring
National University of Mongolia
Email: [email protected] or [email protected]

Jyh-Ching Juang
Talk Title: Recent Progress on the Design of a CubeSat IoT Payload
Department of Electrical Engineering
National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

Mohamad Huzaimy Jusoh
Talk Title: UiTMSAT-1 as Catalyst for Indigenous Space Program in Malaysia
Associate Professor
Faculty of Electrical Engineering,
Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia

Ericka Picar
Talk Title: The Philippines: Snapshots and data, data, data
Philippines

Rabindra Prasad Dhakal, Dr. Eng.
Talk Title: The First Step to the Space and Ground Communication at Nepal through International Collaboration for Capacity Building and Sensitization of Space Technology in Nepal
Chief, Faculty of Technology, Nepal Academy of Science and Technology,
Khumaltar, Lalitpur, Nepal, and
General Manager, Renewable Energy Tests Stations, RETS, NAST, Khumaltar, Lalitpur, Nepal

Nawarat Worakul
Talk Title: BCCSAT-1 project: High school student satellites project – The 1st Student-built Satellite in Thailand
Astroberry Ltd.

Apiwat Jirawattanaphol
Talk Title: Update of the BIRDS Ground Station Network and BIRDS GS Operation Workshop
Affiliation: Laboratory of Spacecraft Environment Interaction Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu. Japan.

Cheki Dorji
Talk Title: Update on Bhutan’s Space Program and Ground Station
Department of IT and Telecom under Ministry of Information and
Communications of Royal Government of Bhutan

Dr. Anita Antwiwaa
Talk Title: Anu-sstl Activities In Promoting Space Youth Inclusiveness In Ghana
Senior Lecturer and the Head of Department for Electronics and Communications Engineering
All Nations University College, Ghana.