A graduate has won the Award in ADB-JSP Thesis of the Year 2025

Kyaw Soe Win, a master’s graduate from the Department of Socio-Cultural Environmental Studies, has been awarded 3rd Place in the Rural Development and Environment Cluster of the Asian Development Bank–Japan Scholarship Program (ADB-JSP) Thesis of the Year Award 2025.
His thesis, titled “Change Detection of Mangrove Forests Using Deep Learning with Medium-Resolution Satellite Imagery: A Case Study of Wunbaik Mangrove Forest, Myanmar,” explored the application of deep learning models with the multi-temporal and multi-source imagery to monitor long-term changes in mangrove ecosystems, contributing to improved accuracy and valuable information for effective conservation strategies in Myanmar.

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