Dr. Jalal left the country with a scholarship in 2017 for higher education in China. While working in China’s applied meteorology lab, he realized how much of a gap he had left in scientific research work. When he was in Bangladesh, he could not learn research work from anyone, even if there was a small number of paid courses, and taking training by spending 10–15 thousand BDT (which was impossible for Jalal to pay his expenses by doing tuition).
In China, he spent most of the time in the lab though there was hostile weather — minus temperature, 7–8 inches of snow outside. According to Chinese rules, a student can take four months of vacation a year, and even those vacations are given up to improve Jalal’s skills. He learned complex software and programming languages like GRADS, FORTRAN, NCL, MATLAB, C, SPSS and PYTHON one by one. At the same time, he made a firm decision in his heart to give to others what he did not get anywhere. After that, he gave free MATLAB training to university students in China, and students from some countries in Asia and Africa took NCL, MATLAB, and CDO training from him.
He wanted to move to Australia, America or Canada to do his PhD after completing his master’s degree. After seeing his impressive research work, several university professors agreed to take him as a PhD student. But his migration to Australia for PhD stopped due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He then applied for a Chinese government scholarship and got it for a PhD.
After that, Jalal desired to do something for the students of Bangladesh, and with the help of the PSTU career club, organized free training for Bangladeshi students on April 17, 2020 (title “Statistical analysis with SPSS”). The enthusiasm of the participants was different in the training session. In the beginning, students of different levels from 8 universities in Bangladesh participated in this training and completed the training. After that, the Research Society started its journey with the early participants with the conviction to encourage the talented students of Bangladesh in research and to provide the necessary resources and training services free of charge. It is a completely secular, non-political organization, which works with students at the university level in Bangladesh and abroad.
Our mission is to lead, promote and deliver multidisciplinary research solutions by learning computer programming, English, Statistics, Data Science, Research Methodology, Research ethics, GIS and RS, Scientific data analysis with Python, Matlab, NCL, and so on.
Research is mandatory for the development of a nation, and it can improve the overall condition of a country. Therefore, Research Society believes that the young generation of Bangladesh has a great potentiality to take our country’s research sector a long way. We dream of a Bangladesh, where the young generation will lead the country on the path of prosperity through research.
See this link: https://rsds-bd.org/committee-members/