On the 11th of January 2023, IUTCS hosted an event titled “Machine Learning in DevOps'' where esteemed academician Dr. Akramul Azim talked with an auditorium full of enthusiastic students.
Dr. Azim, the chief guest of the event, started his presentation by introducing himself to everybody. He talked about his previous jobs and his current workplace i.e. Ontario Tech University. After that he talked about the research lab he founded and the significant research the team has done till now. Among them the simulation software that can test a car’s different functionalities before it is rolled out on the roads caught everyone’s attention.
Then he moved on to the main part of the event where he talked about different machine learning methods that can be used to prioritize test cases while building a software so that a bug can be caught early on and resources can be saved. This part of the event was deeply insightful and had helped students who had genuine interest in this arena.
Dr. Azim then moved on to take questions from the students and faculty members and promptly answered all of them.
The event ended with him giving away his contact information and asking everyone to reach out for further questions. He also encouraged the female students to apply for higher education as he hadn’t supervised any female IUTIAN till that date.
Overall, this was a successfully pulled off event that was only possible by the collaboration of the students and all the volunteers. About 300 people were present in the seminar.

The Speaker: Dr. Akramul Azim is currently an Associate Professor in Software Engineering at Ontario Tech University. Dr. Azim is working on test case prioritization using Machine Learning algorithms and is an active researcher in the field. His work relates to the practical applications in real-world scenarios.