Faculty

Dr Sangita Rayamajhi

Interim Vice Chancellor and Professor of Literature and Gender Studies

Dr. Sangita Rayamajhi, is a Senior Professor with almost three decades of teaching at Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu. She is the first woman in Nepal to get her PhD in English Literature and now she specializes in Asian Studies, Women and Gender and Sexuality Studies. She was the inaugural faculty and Vice Provost for International Faculty Exchanges and Programs at the Asian University for Women, Bangladesh 2009-2015. She earned her Post Doc. “Cultural Memories as Reflected in Dramaturgy: Nepali and American Women’s Experiences” from Pomona College of the Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA., USA. She is the recipient of National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship, Fulbright Scholarship and Scholar Rescue Fund Fellowship (SRF). She has several books to her name, Can a Woman Rebel? Who is the Daughter of Nepal? All Mothers are Working Mothers (a play) and two books, Women’s Roles in Asia (Women’s Roles through History), 2013 and Women and Violence around the World, (co-author and co-editor), ABC CLIO, Greenwood Nov. 30, 2019, and Reclaiming Forgotten Narratives (a novel), Notion Press, India 2025. She was the Chair of the Coordination Committee and Professor at the Institute of Advanced Communication, Education and Research (IACER), Pokhara University (Jan. 2023-Dec. 2024). She is the Director of Center for Advanced Studies in South Asia (CASSA) and South Asian Foundation for Academic Research (SAFAR), which are Academic Organizations. At present as visiting Professor she is teaching South Asian Literature and Gender and Sexuality Studies at the Asian University for Women. She is the Founding Director of Indigenous Peoples‘ Center, (IPC), AUW. She serves as the Interim Dean of Academic Affairs at the University.

Dr Mohiuddin Ahsanul Kabir Chowdhury

Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Public Health; Takeda Chair

Dr. Chowdhury is the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Public Health; Takeda Chair.  He is conducting research activities besides teaching students. He received his PhD in Epidemiology from the University of South Carolina. Earlier, he has a prior experience of teaching as an Assistant Professor at BRAC University and also worked as an Assistant Scientist at icddr,b, a renowned research organization.

Dr. Chowdhury will be teaching Research Methods in Public Health. Social and Behavioral Sciences in Public Health, and Maternal and Child Health during this academic year.

Research interests
Maternal and Child Health, Implementation Research, Health Systems Research, Autism and disability, Migration and health, Gender based violence, and health disparities

Journal Articles

1. Anemia prevalence in women of reproductive age in low-and-middle-income countries between 2000 and 2018. Kinyoki D, Osgood-Zimmerman AE, Bhattacharjee NV, Local Burden of Disease Anaemia Collaborators, Kassebaum NJ, Hay SI. Nature Medicine. 2021
2. Global, regional, and national mortality among young people aged 10–24 years, 1950–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. GBD 2019 Adolescent Mortality Collaborators. The Lancet. 2021
3. Fatal police violence by race and state in the USA, 1980–2019: a network meta-regression. GBD 2019 Police Violence US Subnational Collaborators. The Lancet. 2021
4. Mapping inequalities in exclusive breastfeeding in low- and middle-income countries, 2000–2018.Bhattacharjee VN, Schaeffer LE, Hay SI, Local Burden of Disease Exclusive Breastfeeding Collaborators. Nature Human behaviour. 2021
5. Mapping subnational HIV mortality in six Latin American countries with incomplete vital registration systems. Local Burden of Diseases HIV Collaborators. BMC Medicine. 2021
6. Subnational mapping of HIV incidence and mortality among individuals aged 15–49 years in sub-Saharan Africa, 2000–18: a modelling study. Local Burden of Diseases HIV Collaborators. The Lancet HIV. 2021
7. Are childbirth location and mode of delivery associated with favorable early breastfeeding practices in hard-to-reach areas of Bangladesh? Ali NB, Karim F, Billah SM, Hoque DME, Khan ANS, Hasan MM, Simi SM, Arifeen SE, Chowdhury MAK. PLoS ONE. 2020
8. The Interaction of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Resiliency on the Outcome of Depression Among Children and Youth, 8-17 years old. Elmore A, Crouch E, Chowdhury MAK. Child abuse and neglect. 2020
9. Morbidity and mortality from road injuries: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. James SL, GBD collaborators. Injury prevention. 2020
10. The burden of unintentional drowning: global, regional and national estimates of mortality from the Global Burden of Disease 2017 Study. Franklin RC, GBD collaborators. Injury prevention. 2020
11. Global injury morbidity and mortality from 1990 to 2017: results from Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. James SL, GBD collaborators . Injury prevention. 2020
12. Estimating global injuries morbidity and mortality: methods and data used in Global Burden of Disease 2017 study. James SL, GBD collaborators . Injury prevention. 2020
13. Prevalence and factors associated with caesarean section in four Hard-to-Reach areas of Bangladesh: Findings from a cross-sectional survey. Karim F, Ali NB, Khan ANS, Hassan A, Hasan MM, Hoque DME, Billah SM, Arifeen SE, Chowdhury MAK. PLoS ONE. 2020
14. RELISH-DB a large expert-curated database for benchmarking biomedical literature search Brown P, RELISH Consortium, Zhou Y . Scientific data. 2019
15. Large expert-curated database for benchmarking document similarity detection in biomedical literature search. Brown P, RELISH Consortium, Zhou Y. Database. 2019
16. Prevalence and risk factors of postpartum depression among women living in urban slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Azad R, Fahmi R, Shtestha S, Joshi H, Hasan M, Khan ANS, Chowdhury MAK, Arifeen SE, Billah SM. PLoS ONE. 2019
17. Prevalence and determinants of initiation of breastfeeding within one hour of birth: an analysis of the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey, 2014. Karim F, Khan ANS, Tasnim F, Chowdhury MAK, Billah SM, Karim T, Arifeen SE, Garnett SP. PLoS ONE. 2019
18. Quality of care during childbirth at public health facilities in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study using WHO/UNICEF ‘Every Mother Every Newborn (EMEN)’standards. Billah SM, Chowdhury MAK, Khan ANS, Karim F, Hassan A, Zaka N, Arifeen SE, Manu A. BMJ Open Quality. 2019
19. Competence of healthcare professionals in diagnosing and managing obstetric complications and conducting neonatal care: a clinical vignette-based assessment in district and subdistrict hospitals in northern Bangladesh. Khan ANS, Karim F, Chowdhury MAK, Zaka N, Manu A, Arifeen SE, Billah SM. BMJ Open. 2019
20. Ambiguous Genitalia – A social dilemma in Bangladesh: A Case Report. Chowdhury MAK, Anwar MR, Saha A. International Journal of Surgery Case Reports. 2018
21. Knowledge and Acceptance of HPV Vaccine for Cervical Cancer Prevention among Corporate Women in Bangladesh: A Mixed Method Study. Bhuiyan A, Sultana F, Islam JY, Chowdhury MAK, Nahar Q. BioResearch Open Access. 2018
22. A community-based cluster randomized controlled trial (cRCT) to evaluate the impact and operational assessment of “Safe Motherhood and Newborn Health Promotion Package”: Study Protocol. Hoque DME, Chowdhury MAK, Rahman AE, Billah SM, Bari S, Tahsina T, Islam T, Mori R, Arifeen SE. BMC Public Health. 2018
23. Domestic violence against women in urban slums of Bangladesh: A cross sectional survey. Chowdhury MAK, Rahman AE, Morium S, Hasan MM, Bhuiyan A, Arifeen SE. Journal of interpersonal violence. 2018
24. Child marriage: historical reality around the globe and in Bangladesh. Chowdhury MAK, Morium S. Archives of Psychology. 2018
25. Initiation of breastfeeding within one hour of birth and its determinants among normal vaginal deliveries at primary and secondary health facilities in Bangladesh: A case-observation study. Karim F, Billah SM, Chowdhury MAK, Zaka N, Manu A, Arifeen SE, Khan ANS. PLoS ONE. 2018

Working Papers / Reports

1. Report on demographic profiling and needs assessment of maternal and child health(MCH) care for the Rohingya Refugee population in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Chowdhury MAK, Billah SM, Karim F, Khan ANS, Islam S, Arifeen SE. icddr,b. 2018

Education

Ph.D. Epidemiology, University of South Carolina, USA

MPH, BRAC University, Bangladesh

BMBBS, Chittagong Medical College, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh

Dr Simon Clarke

Professor and Program Director of Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE)

Simon Clarke is the Professor and Program Director of  Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE).

He studied at the University of Auckland, New Zealand and received his doctorate from Oxford University. He taught at AUW in 2012-2014 before rejoining in 2022. He has also taught at the University of Canterbury (NZ) and the American University of Armenia. He is the author of Foundations of Freedom: Welfare-Based Arguments Against Paternalism (Routledge, 2012) as well as articles published in the Journal of Political Philosophy, Political Studies, Ethical Perspectives, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, and Journal of Applied Philosophy.

Research interests

Political philosophy, moral philosophy, bioethics, and the history of political thought.

Book Chapters, etc.

• ‘Populism in Armenia: A Conceptual Framework and its Application’, in Reinhard Heinisch (editor) Diverse Voices on Populism- New Insights from the European “Periphery” (Nomos Publishing, 2022, forthcoming).

Journal Articles

• Compulsory Vaccination and Nozickian Rights’, Journal of Applied Philosophy, forthcoming 2022.
• ‘Freedom and Happiness: Does freedom make people happy?’ Journal of Political Science: Bulletin of Yerevan University, volume 1, 2022.

Working Papers / Reports

• ‘The Case Against Mandatory Vaccination’, Dilemmas, Center for Population-Level Bioethics, Rutgers University, 2021.
• ‘Voluntary Euthanasia: For and Against’ Scoop, September 2020.
• ‘Was the Revolution Justified?’ EVN Report, November 2018.

Dr ANM Moinul Islam

Professor and Program Director of Economics

Research

Professor Islam studies development economics, international economics, environmental economics, and monetary economics. His current research projects include:

“Consumers’ Attitude towards Eco-products/ organic Foods: Evidence from Bangladesh Cities” (With Mohammad N. Nobi)

“Households’ Willingness to pay to Avoid Water Logging in Bakalia of Chittagong City Corporation” (With Meherun Ahmed and Mohammad Nur Nobi)

“Influence of Parent’s Profession and Education on Student Performances at Tertiary Level: A Cross Country Study” (With Meherun Ahmed and Mohammad Nur Nobi)

Publications

Articles:

“Long Term Impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on Economic Growth of Bangladesh” Allato Academic Studies, International Ataturk Alatoo University Bishkek, KYRGYZSTAN (2016). Co-authored with Afroza Alam and Mohammed N. Nobi,

“A Demand for Money Function with Output Uncertainty, Monetary Volatility, and Financial Innovations: Evidence from Japan”: Research Journal for Management Sciences, Vol.4(5), pp.15-20 May (2015)

“Economic Growth, Economic Freedom, and Corruption: Evidence from Panel Data”: International Research Journal for Social Sciences, Vol.4(5), pp.37-42 May (2015)

Role of Rural Women in Environment Conservation: A Case Study of a Bangladesh Village (Co-authored With T.A. Chowdhury) submitted for publication in the forthcoming issue of International Research Journal for Social Sciences.

Working Papers/Reports:

“Estimating the Environmental Cost of Shrimp Farming in Coastal Areas of Chittagong and Cox’s Bazaar in Bangladesh” (Coauthored with Mohammad N, Nobi)

“Does Facebook Reduce Unemployment? A Holistic Research on How Beauty Index Affects a Facebooker’s Chance of Getting Jobs” (Co-authored with Tram Pham)

Export Performance – Disadvantage of the landlocked countries (Co-authored with Kritika Kumari)

“Socioeconomic Disparities between Eastern and Western Part of Bangladesh: An Empirical Analysis” (with Jeenat Binta Jabbar)

“Impact of Remittance Inflows on Economic Growth in South Asia: Evidence from Panel data” (with Jyothi Nair)

Migrants’ Remittance Income and its Impact on Households’ Savings in Nepal

Education

Ph.D. Economics, Southern Illinois University, USA

M.S. Economics, Illinois State University, USA

M.S.S. Economics, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh

B.S.S. Economics, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh

Dr Tuhin Biswas

Assistant Professor and Program Director of Public Health

Tuhin working as an Assistant Professor in Public Health at Asian University for Women. Before that, he worked as a Post-Doctoral Research fellow (Group: Health and Society) at the Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR), the University of Queensland in Australia. A public health by training, Tuhin’s research focuses on understanding the social and economic consequences of health and demographic change, particularly in developed and developing countries. He has been collaborating with multidisciplinary researchers and institutions in countries including Australia, USA, UK, Vietnam, Indonesia, India, Nepal, and Bangladesh. His research interest in obesity and co-morbidities development and early prevention, diabetes, hypertension, adolescent health, health system, health policy, systematic review and meta-analysis. He started his research career as a research fellow in one of the centre of excellence “Centre for Control of Chronic Diseases” at icddr,b which was established with funding support from National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), USA. His PhD research focused on double burden of malnutrition among the women in South and Southeast Asia and its geographical variation, health inequality and health achievement.

Teaching

Global Health

Health Promotion and Planning

Research Interest

Obesity and co-morbidities development and early prevention, diabetes, hypertension, adolescent health, health system, health policy, systematic review and meta-analysis.

Project involvements

1. Exposure to Trihalomethanes in pregnancy and birth outcomes in Queensland: integrated data analysis and case studies for better policy and health outcomes.
2. Mobile phone-based technology to improve health, population and nutrition services in Rural Bangladesh.
3. Community based lifestyle intervention for diabetes management in Nepal: A clustered randomized trial.
4. Obesity prevalence and patterns of diet and physical activity among children and adolescents in urban areas in Bangladesh.
5. Prevalence Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases among the Elders in Old-age Homes in Bangladesh.
6. Mobile Phone Intervention for Increasing Adherence to Treatment for Type 2 Diabetes in an Urban Area of Bangladesh: a Randomized Controlled Trial.
7. Social and economic impact of diabetics in Bangladesh: a case–control study.
8. Early life exposure to famine and its influence on later life metabolic syndrome: protocol for a community-based study on 1974 famine exposed population in rural Bangladesh.
9. Prevalence of maternal depression of autistic children in Dhaka city and feasibility of implementing household-based training for parents.
10. Factors determining development of effective policy strategy to improve rural retention of medical doctors in Bangladesh.
11. Assessing emerging challenges and solutions on Faculty Development in the Health sector in Bangladesh.
12. Situation analyses of health, nutrition, and water, hygiene and sanitation among Undocumented Myanmar Nationals (UMN) and people in host communities in Cox’s Bazar district in Bangladesh.
13. Determining the challenges and opportunities for strengthening NCD corners in Bangladesh: A situation analyses.

Journal Articles

1. Mannan A, Hasan MM, Akter F, Rana MM, Chowdhury NA, Rawal LB, Biswas T. Factors associated with low adherence to medication among patients with type 2 diabetes at different healthcare facilities in southern Bangladesh. Global Health Action. 2021 Jan 1;14(1):1872895.
2. Biswas T, Scott JG, Munir K, Thomas HJ, Huda MM, Hasan MM, de Vries TD, Baxter J, Mamun AA. Global variation in the prevalence of bullying victimisation amongst adolescents: Role of peer and parental supports. EClinicalMedicine. 2020 Mar 1;20:100276.
3. Biswas T, Scott JG, Munir K, Renzaho AM, Rawal LB, Baxter J, Mamun AA. Global variation in the prevalence of suicidal ideation, anxiety and their correlates among adolescents: A population based study of 82 countries. EClinicalMedicine. 2020 Jul 1;24:100395.
4. Islam MS, Biswas T. Prevalence and correlates of the composite index of anthropometric failure among children under 5 years old in Bangladesh. Maternal & child nutrition. 2020 Apr;16(2):e12930.
5. Islam SM, Uddin R, Zaman SB, Biswas T, Tansi T, Chegini Z, Moni MA, Niessen L, Naheed A. Healthcare seeking behavior and glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes attending a tertiary hospital. International Journal of Diabetes in Developing Countries. 2020 Oct 8:1-8.
6. Begum T, Saif‐Ur‐Rahman KM, Yaqoot F, Stekelenburg J, Anuradha S, Biswas T, Doi SA, Mamun AA. Global incidence of caesarean deliveries on maternal request: a systematic review and meta‐regression. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. 2020 Sep 1.
7. Biswas T, Magalhaes RS, Townsend N, Das SK, Mamun A. Double burden of underweight and overweight among women in South and Southeast Asia: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Advances in Nutrition. 2020 Jan 1;11(1):128-43.
8. Hasan MM, Magalhaes RJ, Ahmed S, Ahmed S, Biswas T, Fatima Y, Islam MS, Hossain MS, Mamun AA. Meeting the Global Target in Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Care Services in Low-and Middle-Income Countries. Global Health: Science and Practice. 2020 Dec 23;8(4):654-65
9. Ahmed S, Pervin S, Biswas T, Chowdhury MA, Hasnat MA, Shuvra MM. Undiagnosed isolated systolic and diastolic hypertension subtypes and their correlates in Bangladesh: a nationwide Survey. Osong public health and research perspectives. 2019 Feb;10(1):12.
10. Biswas T, Townsend N, Magalhaes RS, Hasan M, Mamun A. Patterns and determinants of the double burden of malnutrition at the household level in South and Southeast Asia. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2020 Sep 2:1-7.
11. Rawal LB, Kharel C, Yadav UN, Kanda K, Biswas T, Vandelanotte C, Baral S, Abdullah AS. Community health workers for non-communicable disease prevention and control in Nepal: a qualitative study. BMJ open. 2020 Dec 1;10(12):e040350.
12. Biswas T, Townsend N, Magalhaes RS, Islam MS, Hasan MM, Mamun A. Current progress and future directions in the double burden of malnutrition among women in South and Southeast Asian countries. Current developments in nutrition. 2019 Jul;3(7):nzz026.
13. Das S, Fahim SM, Islam MS, Biswas T, Mahfuz M, Ahmed T. Prevalence and sociodemographic determinants of household-level double burden of malnutrition in Bangladesh. Public health nutrition. 2019 Jun;22(8):1425-32.
14. Rawal LB, Kanda K, Biswas T, Tanim MI, Poudel P, Renzaho AM, Abdullah AS, Islam SM, Ahmed SM. Non-communicable disease (NCD) corners in public sector health facilities in Bangladesh: a qualitative study assessing challenges and opportunities for improving NCD services at the primary healthcare level. BMJ open. 2019 Oct 1;9(10):e029562.
15. Biswas T, Townsend N, Islam MS, Islam MR, Gupta RD, Das SK, Al Mamun A. Association between socioeconomic status and prevalence of non-communicable diseases risk factors and comorbidities in Bangladesh: findings from a nationwide cross-sectional survey. BMJ open. 2019 Mar 1;9(3):e025538.
16. Biswas T, Haider MM, Gupta RD, Uddin J. Assessing the readiness of health facilities for diabetes and cardiovascular services in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional survey. BMJ open. 2018 Oct 1;8(10):e022817.
17. Das Gupta R, Gupta S, Das A, Biswas T, Haider MR, Sarker M. Ethnic predisposition of diabetes mellitus in the patients with previous history of gestational diabetes mellitus: a review. Expert review of endocrinology & metabolism. 2018 May 4;13(3):149-58.
18. GBD 2017 Causes of Death Collaborators (Tuhin Included). Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. Lancet 2018; 392: 1736– 88.
19. GBD 2017 Population and Fertility Collaborators (Tuhin included). Population and fertility by age and sex for 195 countries and territories, 1950–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. Lancet 2018; 392: 1995–2051.
20. GBD 2017 Mortality Collaborators (Tuhin included). Global, regional, and national age- sex-specific mortality and life expectancy, 1950–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. Lancet 2018; 392: 1684–735.
21. GBD 2017 Risk Factor Collaborators (Tuhin included). Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. Lancet 2018; 392: 1923–94.
22. GBD 2017 SDG Collaborators (Tuhin included). Measuring progress from 1990 to 2017 and projecting attainment to 2030 of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals for 195 countries and territories: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. Lancet 2018; 392: 2091–138.
23. Khandker NN, Biswas T, Khan AN, Hasib E, Rawal LB. Socio-demographic characteristics and tobacco use among the adults in urban slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Tobacco induced diseases. 2017 Dec;15(1):1-8.
24. Islam MS, Hussain MA, Islam S, Mahumud RA, Biswas T, Islam SM. Age at menarche and its socioeconomic determinants among female students in an urban area in Bangladesh. Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare. 2017 Jun 1;12:88-92.
25. Biswas T, Garnett SP, Pervin S, Rawal LB. The prevalence of underweight, overweight and obesity in Bangladeshi adults: Data from a national survey. PloS one. 2017 May 16;12(5):e0177395.
26. Biswas T, Uddin MJ, Mamun AA, Pervin S, P Garnett S. Increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity in Bangladeshi women of reproductive age: Findings from 2004 to 2014. PloS one. 2017 Jul 28;12(7):e0181080.
27. Rawal LB, Biswas T, Khandker NN, Saha SR, Bidat Chowdhury MM, Khan AN, Chowdhury EH, Renzaho A. Non-communicable disease (NCD) risk factors and diabetes among adults living in slum areas of Dhaka, Bangladesh. PloS one. 2017 Oct 3;12(10):e0184967.
28. Biswas T, Islam A, Islam MS, Pervin S, Rawal LB. Overweight and obesity among children and adolescents in Bangladesh: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Public Health. 2017 Jan 1;142:94-101.
29. Biswas T, Pervin S, Tanim MI, Niessen L, Islam A. Bangladesh policy on prevention and control of non-communicable diseases: a policy analysis. BMC Public Health. 2017 Dec;17(1):1-1.
30. Islam SM, Biswas T, Bhuiyan FA, Mustafa K, Islam A. Patients’ perspective of disease and medication adherence for type 2 diabetes in an urban area in Bangladesh: a qualitative study. BMC research notes. 2017 Dec;10(1):1-8.
31. Uddin J, Biswas T, Adhikary G, Ali W, Alam N, Palit R, Uddin N, Uddin A, Khatun F, Bhuiya A. Impact of mobile phone-based technology to improve health, population and nutrition services in Rural Bangladesh: a study protocol. BMC medical informatics and decision making. 2017 Dec;17(1):1-9.
32. Islam SM, Niessen LW, Seissler J, Ferrari U, Biswas T, Islam A, Lechner A. Diabetes knowledge and glycemic control among patients with type 2 diabetes in Bangladesh. SpringerPlus. 2015 Dec;4(1):1-7.
33. Islam SM, Biswas T, Bhuiyan FA, Islam MS, Rahman MM, Nessa H. Injecting drug users and their health seeking behavior: a cross-sectional study in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Journal of addiction. 2015;2015.
34. Shariful Islam SM, Biswas T, Bhuiyan FA, Islam M, Rahman MM, Nessa H. Injecting drug users and their health seeking behavior: A cross-sectional study in dhaka, Bangladesh. Journal of Addiction. 2015 Jan 1;2015.

Dr P Mosae Selvakumar

Associate Professor of Chemistry and Program Director of Environmental Science & Biological Sciences

Dr. Mosae Selvakumar Paulraj is a chemistry educator and researcher with over 20 years of experience in academia/Research/Industries across India, Germany, Srilanka and Bangladesh. He received his Bachelors and Masters degree in Chemistry from Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tamilnadu, India. He is a Diploma holder in teacher education and Master degree holder in psychology. He started his professional career in Jubilant Biosys Ltd, Bangalore, as a scientist in the cheminformatics division. Then he joined as a research fellow at Central Salt And Marine Chemical Research Institute (CSMCRI) – a unit of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, and obtained his Ph.D. degree. He also worked as a DAAD research fellow in Technical University, Kaiserslautern, Germany. Presently, Dr. Mosae is working as Associate Professor of Chemistry at Asian university for Women (AUW), Chattogram, Bangladesh. Before joining AUW, Dr. Mosae has worked as Assistant professor of chemistry at Karunya University, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu. His expertise spans supramolecular chemistry, Green chemistry, Nanomaterials, and Palmyraculture for Sustainable Development with a strong focus on advancing scientific understanding and developing practical applications for societal benefit. He has developed curricula and pedagogies for both undergraduate and postgraduate programs, covering a wide range of subjects including general chemistry, organic chemistry, Inorganic chemistry, Analytical chemistry, Nano Science and Nano technology, Green Chemistry, Supramolecular chemistry, Applied Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Bio chemistry and Environmental Science.

He received several awards/fellowships and recognitions, including Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) in Chemistry from CSIR-India and DAAD fellowship from DAAD, Germany and  DST Fast track for Young Scientists. He is a Member of the International union for Conservation of Nature(IUCN), the Chemical Research Society of India(CRSI), the Material Research Society of India(MRSI) and the Luminescent Society of India(LSI). He has contributed to over 100 research publications including research articles, review papers, and book chapters, and filed a few patents on applications of natural materials.

His notable contribution to the society, Palmyraculture and the Green Bangle Project, focuses on environmental conservation through women involvement, empowerment, ecopreneurship and sustainable development through community involvement in Bangladesh and Asia.

Teaching

General Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Introduction to Environmental Science, Women in Science, Bio Chemistry

Research interests

Supramolecular Chemistry, Chemo Bio Sensor,     ⁠Green Chemistry, Water treatment,  Waste to Wealth, Molecules and Nano-materials, Palmyraculture for Sustainable Development

Project involvements
1. Green Bangle Project – Plantation of 30,000 palms and mangroves in Sitakundu beach to fight rising sea levels and climate change.

2. A pilot study on packaging palmyra fruit juice with natural preservatives
3. Design, Synthesis and characterization of novel supramolecular helicates for their application in molecular recognition

Grants Obtained

1. Green Bangle Project – Plantation of 30,000 palms and mangroves in Sitakundu beach to fight rising sea levels and climate change- Swiss Philanthrophy Foundation Funded Project
2. A pilot study on packaging palmyra fruit juice with natural preservatives- AUW Faculty Research Grant
3. Design, Synthesis and characterization of novel supramolecular helicates for their application in molecular recognition- DST SERB Funded Project

Authored Books

Hussain, C.M., Selvakumar, P.M., Nuzhat, S. (2021). Source Reduction and Waste minimization, Elsevier, ISBN: 9780128243206

Book Chapters, etc.

Kuldeep, S.A., Paulraj, M.S. (2024). Role of Nanofillers in Food Packaging. In: Mallakpour, S., Hussain, C.M. (eds) Handbook of Nanofillers. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3516-1_114-1

Auishe, P.F., Haider, S.B., Mona, S.C., Paulraj, M.S.K. (2024). The Role of Nanofillers in the Environmental Industry. In: Mallakpour, S., Hussain, C.M. (eds) Handbook of Nanofillers. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3516-1_62-1

Huda, R.N., Pires, Z.B.D.G., Amin, R., Paulraj, M.S. (2024). Nanofillers in Environmental, Legal, Health, and Safety Issues. In: Mallakpour, S., Hussain, C.M. (eds) Handbook of Nanofillers. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3516-1_156-1

Selvakumar, P.M., Nuzhat, S., Quadrey, M.M., Monichan, S., Samdavid Thanapaul, R.J.R., Muthukumar Nadar, M.S.A. (2021). Green Nanomaterials: Design, Synthesis, Properties, and Industrial Applications. In: Hussain, C.M., Di Sia, P. (eds) Handbook of Smart Materials, Technologies, and Devices. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58675-1_98-1

Samdavid Thanapaul, R.J.R., Paulraj, M.S., Roh, D.S. (2022). Nanobiotechnology-Based Anti-aging Products. In: Handbook of Consumer Nanoproducts. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8698-6_62

Rozbu, M.R., Nuzhat, S., Selvakumar, P.M. (2022). Role of Nanotechnology in Cosmeceuticals. In: Handbook of Consumer Nanoproducts. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8698-6_60

Chowdhury, A.T., Rafa, N., Kabir, A., Selvakumar, P.M. (2022). Consumer Nanoproducts for Environment. In: Handbook of Consumer Nanoproducts. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8698-6_67

Rozbu, M. R., Kabir, A., & Selvakumar, P. M. (2021). Functionalized Bio‐carbon Nanomaterials for Environmental Utilizations. Environmental Applications of Carbon Nanomaterials‐Based Devices, 347-374  https://doi.org/10.1002/9783527830978.ch15

Journal Articles( Recent)

Selvan, G. Tamil, Joel Samson, P. Rajasingh, Xuesong Li, A. Ravi Kumar, Nuanfei Zhu, Sweety Angela Kuldeep, P. Mosae Selvakumar, P. Jun Tang, and Zhen Zhang. (2024). A captivating approach to elevate the detection of Al3+ ions incorporates the utilization of a tripodal receptor intricately embellishing the surface of zinc oxide. Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 124339.

Selvan, G. Tamil, Israel MV Enoch, V. Srinivasadesikan, R. Mariselvam, A. Ravi Kumar, Xuesong Li, P. Jun Tang, P. Mosae Selvakumar, and Zhen Zhan (2024). Surface-modified gold nanoparticles: A novel chemical probe for precise fluorescent detection of aluminium (Al3+) ions; investigating DFT insights and molecular logic gate behaviour. Journal of Molecular Liquids, 397, 124039.

Paulraj, M. S., Eringathodi, S., Mollah, A. M., Alexis Thayaparan, C. T., Kuldeep, S. A., Subramanian, P. S., & Dhanaraj, P. (2024). 2-[(E)-(2-carboxybenzylidene) amino] ethan ammonium-like amino acid zwitterions: crystal structure, functional studies and its molecular dynamic simulation study with drug target receptors. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, 42(12), 6081-6090..

Thevamirtha, C., Balasubramaniyam, A., Srithayalan, S., & Selvakumar, P. M. (2023). An Insight into the antioxidant activity of the facial cream, solid soap and liquid soap made using the carotenoid extract of palmyrah (Borassus flabellifer) fruit pulp. Industrial Crops and Products, 195, 116413.

Ghosh, G., Mukherjee, D., Ghosh, R., Singh, P., Pal, U., Chattopadhyay, A., Santra, M., Ahn, K.H., Selvakumar, P.M., Das, R. and Pal, S.K., . (2023). A novel molecular reporter for probing protein DNA recognition: An optical spectroscopic and molecular modeling study. Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 291, 122313.

Dhanaraj P, Muthiah I, Rozbu MR, Nuzhat S and Paulraj MS (2021) Computational Studies on T2Rs Agonist-Based Anti–COVID-19 Drug Design. Front. Mol. Biosci. 8:637124. doi: 10.3389/fmolb.2021.637124

For more publications, Visit  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8712-1168

Patents Filed:

Ranjit singh, A.J.A., Mariselvam, R., Usha Raja Nanthini, A., Selvakumar, P.M. Eco friendly golden yellow dye from Syzygium cumini (L.) Jambolan) fruit seed endosperm extract and its application in the preparation of antimicrobial fabric, Indian Patent Application Number-2560/CHE/2014

Selvakumar, P.M., Dakshinamurthy, A., & Deena, S. Method of making antimicrobial fabric using silver nanoparticles, banana sap and natural dye, Indian Patent Application Number-3774/CHE/2014

Selvakumar, P.M., Ranjit singh, A.J.A., Mariselvam, R. Development of eco – friendly wound healing bandage from palmyra palm leaf secretions, Indian Patent Application Number-4011/CHE/2015.

Sureshkumar, C., Mariappan, C., Palavesm, A., & Selvakumar, P.M.. Method for the removal ofhighly resistantPseudomonas aeruginosa /Aeromonas hydrophila / Burkholderia cepacia from infeed Bore well water to different purification stages of water purification system at aseptic pharmaceutical manufacturing, Indian Patent Application Number-201641033678 A

Dr Md Mamunur Rasid

Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics and Data Science (AMDS) and Program Director of AMDS (Pathways & UG Program)

Dr. Md Mamunur Rasid is Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Data Science, and  Director of Mathematics at the Asian University for Women. He specializes in mathematics, with research expertise in computational mathematics, data science, and artificial intelligence. He holds a Ph.D. from Kanazawa University, Japan, where his work focused on advanced numerical methods for fluid dynamics. Dr. Rasid has 3+ years of teaching experience in Bangladesh and 1+ years of working experience as an IT programmer in Japan before joining AUW.

Teaching

• MATH1001: CALCULUS II (Section 1)
• MATH3000: DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS (Section 1)
• GE-MATH1001: MATHEMATICS (Section 3 & 4)

Research interests

• Computational Mathematics
• Pure and Applied Mathematics
• Storm Surge and Tsunami Modeling
• Analytical solutions for nonlinear partial differential equations
• Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence

Some Selected Articles:M. Rasid, M. M. Miah, A. H. Ganie, H. M. Alshehri, M. S. Osman, and W.-X. Ma, “Further advanced investigation of the complex hirota-dynamical model to extract soliton solutions,” Modern Physics Letters B, vol. 38, no. 10, p. 2 450 074, 2024.

M. Rasid, M. Kimura, M. M. Murshed, E. R. Wijayanti, and H. Notsu, “A Two-Step Lagrange–Galerkin Scheme for the Shallow water Equations with a Transmission Boundary Condition and Its Application to the Bay of Bengal Region; Part I: Flat Bottom Topography,” Mathematics, vol. 11, no. 7, 2023, issn: 2227-7390.

Hossain, Md Nur, Rasid, Md Mamunur, Abouelfarag, I., El-Rashidy, K., Miah, M. Mamun and Kanan, Mohammad. “A new investigation of the extended Sakovich equation for abundant soliton solution in industrial engineering via two efficient techniques” Open Physics, vol. 22, no. 1, 2024, pp. 20240096.

A. Iqbal, M. M. Miah, M. M. Rasid, A. Hashim M., and M. S. Osman, “An investigation of two integro-differential kp hierarchy equations to find out closed form solitons in mathematical physics,” Arab Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 535–545, 2023.

H. Ganie, L. H. Sadek, M. Tharwat, M.M. Rasid et al., “New investigation of the analytical behaviors for some nonlinear pdes in mathematical physics and modern engineering,” Partial Differential Equations in Applied Mathematics, vol. 9, p. 100 608, 2024, issn: 2666-8181.

A. Chowdhury, M. M. Miah, M. M. Rasid, et al., “Further quality analytical investigation on soliton solutions of some nonlinear pdes with analyses: Bifurcation, sensitivity, and chaotic phenomena,” Alexandria Engineering Journal, vol. 103, pp. 74–87, 2024, issn: 1110-0168.

C. Paul, M. M. Murshed, M. M. Rasid, and M. M. B. Shiraj, “Approximation of a complex Geometric Domain in Polar Coordinates,” Ganit: Journal of Bangladesh Mathematical Society, vol. 38, 2018.

Working Papers / Reports

M. Rasid, M. Kimura, M. M. Murshed, E. R. Wijayanti, and H. Notsu, “Two-Step Lagrange–Galerkin Scheme for the Shallow water Equations with a Transmission Boundary Condition and Its Application to the Bay of Bengal Region;Part II: Non-homogeneity of bottom topography, wind-stress and Coriolis force effect (full draft),”

M. Rasid, “An adpaitve Lagrange–Galerkin Scheme of second order in time for the Shallow water Equations with a Transmission Boundary Condition (Manuscript in preparation),”

Some Selected Conference Proceedings and Presentations:

M. Rasid, M. Kimura, M. M. Murshed, E. R. Wijayanti, and H. Notsu, “A Lagrange–Galerkin Scheme of second order in time for the Shallow water Equations with a Transmission Boundary Condition,” in Workshop on Scientific Computing, Děčín Czech Rep.+online, 2022.

M. Rasid (invited), M. Kimura, M. M. Murshed, E. R. Wijayanti, and H. Notsu, “A

Lagrange–Galerkin Scheme of second order in time for the Shallow water Equations with a

Transmission Boundary Condition and Its Application to the Bay of Bengal Region,” in Joint Seminar on Mathematics, Kanazawa University-University of the Philippines Baguio, (zoom online), 2022.

M. Rasid, M. M. B. Shiraj, M. D. Haque, and M. M. Murshed, “On the generation of tidal oscillation at some stations along the coast of bangladesh using cubic spline interpolation,” in International Conference on Botanical Pesticides and Environmental Sustainability (Oral), University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh, 2016.

M. Rasid, M. M. B. Shiraj, M. D. Haque, and M. M. Murshed, “On the generation of bathymetric data for the coast of bangladesh using two way cubic spline interpolation (oral),” in Proceeding of International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biostatistics for Agriculture, Health and Environment, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh, 2017.

M. Rasid, M. Kimura, M. M. Murshed, E. R. Wijayanti, and H. Notsu, “A Two-Step

Lagrange–Galerkin Scheme for the Shallow water Equations with a Transmission Boundary Condition and Its Application to the Bay of Bengal Region,” Kanazawa University, Japan: International Forum of the Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology 2022.

Dr Ahmedul Kabir

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Director - MS Apparel & Fashion Business Management

Dr Mahady Hasan

Senior Associate Professor and Program Director of Computer Science

Mahady Hasan received the bachelor’s degree in computer science from Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) in 2001, the master’s degree in information technology from The University of Sydney, in 2004, and the Ph.D. degree in Spatial Database from the Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of New South Wales (UNSW), in 2010.

Prior to joining Asian University for Women (AUW) as a Sr. Associate Professor, he served IUB, UNSW, Australian Pacific College, and James Cook University, Australia. He served IUB as Head of the CSE Department four times and led the MS in Software Engineering program. His other senior roles included Dean of School of Engineering Technology and Sciences, and Director of Automation, IUB 360, FabLab IUB, and the Arrows Program.

He has published several book chapters, journals, and conference papers in many renowned venues. His research interests include Software Engineering, Big Data, Data Analytics, and Engineering Education.

Teaching

1. Database Management System
2. Data Analysis and Visualization
3. Artificial Intelligence

Research interests
Engineering Education and Innovation, Software Engineering Economics, Sustainable Intelligent

Project involvements

• Energy Efficiency and Conservation Promotion Financing Project (March, 2017 – March, 2019), funded by JICA, consultant.
• Improvement Program on governance and capability for Bangladesh Leveraging ICT Project (June, 2018- August 2018) funded by World Bank, Consultant.
• Curriculum Development of Information Technology Training Institute (ITTI), Sydney Australia (October, 2006 – December 2006), Funded by Aus Aid, Consultant.
• Educational Software Development and Production (ESDP) (2004-2006), European Union, Team member.

Grants Obtained

• Upgrading value chains of nutrient-dense perishable agricultural commodities in Bangladesh: Technological interventions and IT-based business model development to reduce postharvest and nutrient loss, (2023-2026): US AID, USD $699,984, Co-PI
• Implementation of a River Monitoring System for Bangladesh to Map River Routes and Monitor River Water Quality using IoT to Aid Government Visions, (2024-2025), MOST, PI
• IUB Funded Project “Exploring the impact of Software Engineering concepts for sustainable engineering education” and “Impact of Complex Engineering Problem segment under Outcome Based Education (OBE) in the context of engineering education” (2024-2025), 10 lac BDT, PI
• Fab Lab I U Bangladesh (2017-2018), World bank, HEQEP, 1.8 Crore BDT, PI
• Mobile Application & Game Lab (2016-2017), ICT, USD 75,000, PI
• SASEC RTN Project (2015-2016), ADB, PI

Book Chapters & Journal Articles

• A Critical Review on the Application and Innovation in Smart Fisheries, Shahim Uddin Saba, Fatima Ibrahim, Sabrina Islam Priti, Rayhan Pervej, Alaya Parven Alo, Mahady Hasan, Md Tarek Habib; Engineering Reports, Volume 8, Issue 1, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2026
• Rahman, Md Ataur; Raihan, Md Afiq; Uddin, Mohammad Shorif; Hasan, Mahady; Habib, Md Tarek; A Comprehensive Analysis of Classic Machine Learning and Deep Learning Modeling for Breed Recognition of Bananas; IEEE Access; 2025
• U Aiman, MN Islam, MDHS Chowdhury, MS Rahman, MT Habib, Mahady Hasan, “BRADS and BRWDS: Multipurpose Audio and Text Datasets for Automatic Bangla Regional Speech Recognition”, Data in Brief, 112177, 2025
• Shafir, Mohitul and Saha, Partho Protim and Araf, Ahnaf Tazwar and Nishi, Jannatul Ferdous and Hasan, Mahady and Sadia, Farzana; “The Success Factors of Agile Methodologies in Software Development based on Developing Countries’ Software Firms” Procedia Computer Science 256, 1954-1961, 2025
• Bhuiyan, Zarif Wasif and Haider, Syed Ali Redwanul and Haque, Adiba and Uddin, Mohammad Rejwan and Hasan, Mahady, “IoT Based Meat Freshness Classification Using Deep Learning”, IEEE Access, 2024
• Alam, Mohammad Didarul and Niloy, Tanjir Ahmed and Aurgho, Aurnob Sarker and Hasan, Mahady and Habib, Md Tarek, “An Insightful Analysis of CNN-Based Dietary Medicine Recognition”, Journal of Agriculture and Food Research, 2024.
• Hasan, Md Tarek and Sadia, Farzana and Hasan, Mahady and Rokonuzzaman, M, “Develop a System to Analyze Logs of a Given System Using Machine Learning”, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing: Volume 17, Springer, 2024.
• Irtisamul, Shadat; Hassan, Marzan Binte; Sadia, Farzana; Hasan, Mahady; Rokonuzzaman, Mohammad; “Understanding Consumer Perceptions of Green Software: A Study in the Online Social Media Marketing Context” Procedia Computer Science, 2024
• Lesum, Samiul Alim; Akthar, Sayeda Rahnuma; Islam, Muhammad Rezaul; Sadia, Farzana; Hasan, Mahady; “Project Governance to Improve the Performance of Software Projects by Mitigating the Software Risk Factors: The Moderating Role of Project Leadership”, Procedia Computer Science, 2024

Conference Papers

• Salma, Khandaker Umme; Islam, Tabriji; Zihan, Tahfizul Hasan; Hossen, Ishtiaq; Munir, Md Shirazim; Alam, Sabrina; Hasan, Mahady; Design and Usability Evaluation of ShuttleNav: A Smart Shuttle App with Real-Time GPS Tracking; International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction; 2025
• Rana, Md Rakib; Bhuiyan, Zarif Wasif; Limon, Monayem Hossain; Rahman, Arifa; Hasan, Mahady; Habib, Md Tarek; Review of Modern Chatbot Technologies: Performance, Capabilities and Applications; 48th ICT and Electronics Convention (MIPRO); 2025
• Akthar, Sayeda Rahnuma; Sadia, Farzana; Hasan, Mahady; Enhancing New Product Development Performance: A Hybrid Agile-Stage-Gate Approach with Parallel Sprint Planning; 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA); 2025
• Mekat, Md Jahidul Hossain; Nawal, Kazi Samin; Alam, Mustaqueem; Ema, Anika Jasim; Ahmed, Sadita; Hasan, Mahady; Diabetes Management with Automated Health Monitoring and Diet Recommendations for Patients; 23^rd International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA); 2025
• Akthar, Sayeda Rahnuma; Hasan, Mahady; Dristy, Awindrela Roy; Siam, Md Bayezid Hasan; Tuhin, SM Tanzim; Sadia, Farzana; An Enhanced Framework for Sustainable Education using Project-Based Learning; International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA); 2025
• Shafir, Mohitul; Saha, Partho Protim; Araf, Ahnaf Tazwar; Haque, Shadat Irtisamul; Hasan, Mahady; Sadia, Farzana; Rokonuzzaman, M; “Influential Factors of Software Firms’ Performance in the Industry of Developing Countries.”, ENASE, 2024
• Anni, Fahima Akter; Islam, Muhammad Rezaul; Sadia, Farzana; Hasan, Mahady; Rokonuzzaman, M; “Green Computing Adoption: Understanding the Role of Individual, Social, and Organizational Factors.”, ENASE, 2024

Mr Mohammad Masudur Rahman

Professor of Practice and Program Director of General Education

Masudur Rahman started his journey in performing arts in his childhood. He first performed drama on stage at his age 7, in 1992. Cherishing this continuity, he succeeded to get an academic career in filmmaking and performing arts, and joined as an instructor of Performing Arts at Asian University for Women (AUW) in 2017. Currently he is working as the Professor of Practice in Performing Arts in the same institute.

He is an M.A. in English from the University of Chittagong. He received a scholarship from National Institute of Mass Communication (NIMC) on postgraduate course on Film Direction. Besides, he successfully completed a documentary film making course with an individual film production from Auroville Film Institute, India and a sound design workshop from Satyajit Roy Film and Television Institute, India. He has directed many music videos, short films, and promotional documentaries. He supervised more than 400 students’ film in last 7 years.

His documentary film ‘The Scrap’ received the Best Film Project Award in the Exposition of Young Film Talents 2022 program, organized by Liberation War Museum. His recently completed documentary film, ‘Unrecognized’ won the Best Film Award in the 11^th Liberation Docfest 2023. It was officially selected for screening in the 21^st Dhaka International Film Festival 2023 and in the 4^th Screen Film Award 2023, India.

He received the Mishuk Munier Memorial Award 2023 for his film ‘Unrecognized’.

 Teaching

1. Fiction Filmmaking
2. Documentary Filmmaking
3. Acting (on camera and stage)
4. Pantomime
5. Public Speaking
6. Screenplay Writing
7. Fundamentals of Journalism

Project involvements

Documentary: ‘We Gotta Rock it’, a documentary film project on the first Rock Star of Bangla Music.

Grants Obtained

Film Production Grant from Liberation War Museum (2022)

FILMOGRAPHY

• The Scrap (2023), received Best Documentary Film Project Award 2022 in Exposition of Young Film Talent 2022 organized by Liberation War Museum, Bangladesh, Best Documentary- National Category in Liberation Docfest 2024.
• Unrecognized (2022), a documentary film that explores the identity of an unrecognized freedom fighter, received Best Film Award in 11^th Liberation Docfest organized by Liberation War Museum, Bangladesh.
• A Friendship Deal (2021), officially selected for 6 international film festivals including Britain, Philippines and India, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eRHQS9TROs&t=49s
• The Circle of Desire (2021), officially selected for 3 international film festivals, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OBHNtf-_JM&t=153s
• Ekusher Gaan (2021), music video, a song in 10 tribal languages of Asia to celebrate the Internatinal Mother Language day,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sehAGJc-9GY

• If…If…If… (2020), officially selected for exhibition in Mumbai International Film Festival 2022
• Nothingness and Being (2020), a one-minute documentary, officially selected for Just a Minute Festival, USA
• Hungriocracy (2020), a short photomontage film
• Dump Stories (2021), a short experimental film
• Fire Flood (2018), music video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vUEDJybWk4&t=83s
• Mega City Blues (2019), music video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb6Y0N0EDFk
• Why did you do it (2019), music video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYPlQ18qG5w

AWARDS AND SCREENINGS

Nothingness and Being

1. Official Selection: Just a Minute Festival 2021, USA

A Friendship Deal

1. Official Selection: Nabunturan Independent Film Exhibition 2021, Philippines
2. Official Selection: Art Gallery Film Festival 2021, India
3. Official Selection: Lift Off Global Network Sessions 2021, England
4. Official Selection: Cinephilia Flair Film Festival 2022, Pakistan
5. Official Selection: One Earth Award 2022, Banglore, India
6. Finalist: Indie World Film Festival 2022, Kerala, India

Circle of Desire 22

1. Official Selection: Lift Off Global Network Sessions 2021, England
2. Official Selection: One Earth Award 2022, Banglore, India
3. Finalist: Indie World Film Festival 2022, Kerala, India

The Scrap

1. Award: Best Film Project Award 2022 in Exposition of Young Film Talent 2022, Liberation War Museum, Bangladesh
2. Award: Best Film-National Category, in Liberation Docfest 2024
3. Official Selection: Dhaka international Film Festival, January 2024

If…If…If…

1. Official selection: Mumbai International Film Festival 2022

Unrecognized

1. Official selection: 21st Dhaka International Film Festival’ (DIFF) 2023, Wide Angle Section
2. 4^th Screen – Online Film Award 2022 (Screening Date: December 07, 2022)
3. Award: Best Film : Youth Juri, 11^th Liberation DocFest Bangladesh 2023
4. Award: Best Film: Mishuk Munir Memorial Award, September 2023
5. Official Selection: Cinemaking Filmfestival December 2023

Authored Books

Translations:

Gibran, Kahlil. A Tear and a Smile. Translated by Mohammad Masudur Rahman, 2017.

Journal Articles

• Article: “Pantomime Story Writing” published in Mime Directors Meet Journal (2018)
• Article: “Mime form of Bangladesh: A Draft of Some Aspects” published in Mime Directors’ Meet Journal 2019
• Article: “Adam Surat: A Seminal Creation of Tareque Masud,” https://www.newagebd.net/article/131923/adam-surat-the-seminal-creation-of-tareque-masud

Article: “How to Make Your Every Click Meaningful? A Short Note on Documentary Shot Content”

Dr Haseena Khan

University Professor

Dr. Khan is a distinguished molecular biologist and educator with an illustrious career spanning more than four decades. She completed her B.Sc. (Honors) and M.Sc. in Biochemistry from the University of Dhaka, and earned her Ph.D. from the University of Sussex. She later pursued postdoctoral research in France, the United Kingdom, and Canada, building a strong international foundation in molecular biology and genetic engineering. A retired Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Dhaka, Dr. Khan was the Founder Chairperson of the Department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, where her visionary leadership helped establish one of the country’s leading biotechnology programs. She is widely recognized for her pioneering work on jute molecular biology and for leading the landmark jute genome sequencing project—the first large-scale genome project conducted in Bangladesh. Her research also includes decoding the Hilsa genome and advancing studies in plant genetics, endophytes, and biotechnology for sustainable development. A recipient of the prestigious Independence Day Award (2019) and numerous national and international honors, Dr. Khan is a Fellow of the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences, The World Academy of Sciences and the International Science Council.

“What appeals to me about Asian University for Women (AUW) is that it nurtures an inclusive, diverse and supportive milieu that enables young women to overcome structural barriers, and that it specifically empowers underprivileged women through leadership development. I wish to ensure science reflects the world AUW serves by creating spaces that drive innovation through diversity, warranting women are not just mere participants, but leaders in scientific progress.”

Dr AKM Moinul Haque Meaze

Professor of Physics

AKM Moinul Haque Meaze is a Professor of Physics at AUW. He stood first class first in both his BSc (Honors) and MSc (Thesis) in Physics from the University of Chittagong (CU). He received his PhD in Physics from KNU, Korea. He completed a two-year postdoc at INFN, Bari, Italy, where he worked on the n_TOF experiment at CERN, Geneva.

Meaze is a Grade 1 permanent Professor in the Department of Physics, CU. He has 25+ years of teaching and research experience in public university. He is currently on lien leave from CU and is a permanent faculty at AUW.

Meaze was a regular associate of the ICTP, Trieste for seven years. He is a fellow of the Bangladesh Physical Society and the author of four peer reviewed books and over 50 journal articles.

Teaching

General Physics

Physics I & II

Advanced Physics

Research interests

Nuclear reaction cross-sections across a wide energy range (Nuclear Physics); radiation therapy, dosimetry, quality assurance, and radiation protection (Medical Physics).

Project involvements

Led various CU and UGC funded projects on neutron cross-section, photon beam dose characterization, dosimetric simulation, dose to out-of-field organs and associated risks

Authored Books

1. AKM Moinul Haque Meaze, Radiation Physics (University Grants Commission, Bangladesh, 2022)
2. AKM Moinul Haque Meaze, Dictionary of Physics (University of Chittagong, 2022)
3. AKM Moinul Haque Meaze, An Introduction to Particles (University Grants Commission, Bangladesh, 2020)

Journal Articles

1. n_TOF Collaboration, “Neutron-induced fission cross sections of 232Th and 233U up to 1 GeV using parallel plate avalanche counters at the CERN n_TOF facility,” Rev. C 107, 044616 (2023).
2. AKM Rezaur Rahman, T Hoque Happy, M Khalid Ovi, A Awal, MA Bromuela, MJR Akhand, SR Chakraborty, and AKM Moinul Haque Meaze, “Neutron induced 55Mn reaction in the energy range 0.001 MeV to 40 MeV,” Malaysian J. Sci. 42(3), 65–74 (2023).
3. SS Rubai, S Purohit, T Siddiqua, MS Rahman, and AKM Moinul Haque Meaze, “Investigation of some regular X-ray imaging parameters in suggestive radiography of four hospitals in Bangladesh,” Suan Sunandha Sci. Tech. J. 10(2), 158–164 (2023).
4. MM Hossain, S Purohit, T Siddiqua, MS Rahman, MD Alam Mojumder, MJR Akhand, and AKM Moinul Haque Meaze, “Measurement of absorbed dose to water using Co-60 gamma source teletherapy units according to IAEA dosimetry protocols,” Iraqi J. Sci. 63(10), 4267–4272 (2022).
5. NM Rasel, S Purohit, MS Rahman, AKM Moinul Haque Meaze, and MY Ali, “Monte Carlo simulation and experimental determination of tissue phantom ratio for photon beams delivered from Medical linear accelerator,” J. Phys. Res. 21(3), 51–61 (2021).
6. AKM Moinul Haque Meaze, S Purohit, MS Rahman, A Sattar, SME Kabir, MKA Patwary, K Kali, and MJR Akhand, “Studies of dosimetry protocols for accelerated photons and electrons delivered from medical linear accelerator,” East Eur. J. Phys. 1, 20–26 (2021).
7. S Purohit, AKM Moinul Haque Meaze, SME Kabir, MS Rahman, and MKA Patwary, “Suitability of chambers in relative dose measurement of small fields for accelerated photons delivered from medical linear accelerator,” J. Medical Phys. 18(4), 293–299 (2021).
8. R Azim, AKM Moinul Haque Meaze, A Affandi, MM Alam, R Aktar, MS Mia, T Alam, MS Zaman, and MT Islam, “A multi-slotted antenna for LTE/5G Sub-6 GHz wireless communication applications,” J. Microw. Wirel. Technol. 13(5), 486–496 (2021).
9. NS Resma, AKM Moinul Haque Meaze, S Hossain, MU Khandaker, M Kamala, and N Deb, “The presence of toxic metals in popular farmed fish species and estimation of health risks through their consumption,” Open 5, 100052 (2020).
10. AKM Rezaur Rahman, AKM Moinul Haque Meaze, SR Chakraborty, and M Mohsin, “Evaluations of n + 27Al reaction in the energy range 0.1–200 MeV,” J. Phys. 94, 1255–1262 (2020).

Dr Suparna Das

Associate Professor of Economics

Dr. Suparna Das has obtained a doctorate in Economics with Summa Cum Laude from Central European University, Hungary in 2019. Currently, she is teaching as Associate Professor of Economics in Asian University for Women (AUW) and also serves as Director of the PPE program. Earlier, she completed Teaching Fellows Pedagogical Course for Global Teaching Fellows 2017/18 at CERGE-EI, Czech Republic in 2017 and taught in the School of Economics, Corvinus University in Budapest in 2017-18. Dr Das is a Gender Economist with around twenty years of research experience in various international and national institutes, think tanks and NGOs of India. Her research focuses on microeconomics issues in relevance with gender, household/family bargaining theory, education, unpaid household chores and care work, violence against women and labor market discrimination.

She has numerous research papers published as articles in national and international peer review journals, as chapters in edited volumes and also working papers. Since 2019, around 11 Economics major students have successfully completed their senior thesis under her supervision in AUW.

Teaching

Principles of Microeconomics, Intermediate Macroeconomics, Research Methodology,

Gender Economics, Labor Economics, Development Economics.

Research

Research interests

Gender Economics, Household economics, Applied Microeconomics, Development

Economics

Project involvements

Household bargaining and domestic violence

Women’s justification of wife-beating: Causes and consequences

Rohingya Women’s struggle and challenges faced living in the Camps

Book Chapters, etc.

Das, S. (forthcoming). Reshaping Working Women’s Status at Home in reference to Covid pandemic. Reshaping Gender in the Post-COVID Era: Paradigm Shifts, Transformative Narratives, and Empowered Voices, Routledge.

Das, S. (2023). An Economic Analysis of Demand Side Constraints for Girls’ Education in India. In: Mangalagiri, A. (Ed). Driving the Change: Towards the Sustainable Development Goal of Education, Institute of Social Science, Aakar Books, Delhi

Ahmed, M., and Das, S. (2022). A deplorable future for the stateless Rohingya ethnic minority? NGO intervention in refugee camps in Bangladesh. In: Gul Inanc, G. and Lewis, T. (ed) Forced Displacement and NGOs in Asia and the Pacific (pp. 48-70). Routledge, London

Mehta, A.K.; Das, S. and Satpathy, T. (2007). Beyond Micro-credit: Financial Inclusion and Micro-enterprise Development for Poverty Reduction presented at the NCAER-ADB seminar on 9th January and is published as 9th chapter in ‘Understanding Poverty in India’ ADB publication.

Journal Articles

Das, S. (forthcoming). Normalizing Domestic Violence Through Victim-Blaming Attitude: An Analysis of Indian Household.

Das, S. (forthcoming). Women against women: Who justify violence. International Multidisciplinary Research Journal.

Das, S. (2023). Impact of Covid on the Trend of Domestic Violence in Indian Households. Sexuality and Gender Studies Journal, 1(1), 31–46.

Das, S (2021). The Co-existence of Biased Sex Ratio and Crime against Women in India: Examining the Causality, Journal of Academic Perspectives, Vol 2020, No 4.

Das, S (2020). Impact of ‘Having a Son’ on Women’s Intra-household Status, International Journal of Gender and Women’s Studies, Vol 8, No. 2.

Das, S. (2019). An economic analysis of the gender gap in household demand for education: Evidence from India, Journal of Academic Perspectives, Vol 2019, No 2.

Working Papers / Reports

Mehta, A.K.; Pratap, S. and Das Mukherjee, S. (2015). Efforts to Reduce Chronic Poverty: A Few Best Practice Cases, CPRC Working Paper 50, CPRC and IIPA Publication.

Chowdhury, S.; Mehta, A.K.; Das, S. and Ghosh, S. (2011). An Exploratory Analysis of Deprivation and Ill-Health led Poverty in Urban India: A Case Study of Delhi, CPRC Working Paper 49, CPRC and IIPA Publication.

Mehta, A.K.; Mahapatra, G.; Ali, A. and Das Mukherjee, S. (2009). MNRE – UNDP – FRG Project on Renewable Energy for Rural Livelihoods in villages in Rajasthan and Uttaranchal, A Report sponsored by MNRE, Government of India.

Education

Ph.D. in Economics, Central European University, Hungary

MA in Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

BSc with Economics (Hons), Calcutta University, India

Dr Iymon Majid

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Iymon Majid is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Asian University for Women. He specializes in comparative politics, comparative political theory, and the political history of South Asia. His work interrogates the tense negotiations between Islamic religious authority and state governance in colonial and post-colonial Kashmir. He has previously taught at the University of Kashmir, Srinagar and has received fellowships from the University of Duisburg-Essen and the University of Tübingen, Germany. In 2024-25, he was a Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Research interests
Politics and Religion, Postcolonial Thought, Critical History, Modern South Asia, Secularism and Secularization

Dr Gillian Piggott

Assistant Professor of Literatures in English

Dr Gillian Piggott is an Associate Professor of Literatures in English. Trained at the Universities of Warwick and Sussex in the UK, Dr Piggott has taught in universities in Britain and in fragile environments overseas, including as an Assistant Professor at Balamand University in Lebanon (2007-2012) and as an Associate Professor at the American University of Afghanistan (2019-2023). She is trained in writing-intensive pedagogies, designed to engage traumatized students and students living as refugees and in fragile/dangerous environments. Her literary expertise is 19^th Century British Literature; Charles Dickens; and British Theatre; and her passion is teaching and researching in World Literatures and Decolonisation. She also teaches in the field of Film Studies/World Cinema.

Teaching

Dr Piggott joins AUW as an Assistant Professor in General Education in August 2026. Possible teaching includes Academic Writing; Critical Thinking; and Performance in Theatre and Film.

Research interests
Literature and migration / Literature and conflict (developing)

Bangladeshi novels in English

Teaching in fragile environments

Project involvements
She is editor of a Special Edition of 19, entitled ‘Decolonising Dickens’ (forthcoming 2026), which includes her essay on teaching Dickens in Afghanistan.

She is joint editor of a collection of essays on teaching Literatures in English in Afghanistan: ‘Thinking and the ‘Fall’ of Kabul: Essays from HE’s frontline’ (forthcoming, Afghanistan Journal). She has published on teaching Dickens in Lebanon, ‘Dickens in Arabia: Going Astray in Tripoli’ (2016) in Erea journal at https://journals.openedition.org/erea/4988.

See Google Scholar for other publications (2007-2025): https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=cPqsRxMAAAAJ&hl=en

Authored Books

Dickens and Benjamin: Moments of Revelation: Fragments of Modernity (Routledge, 2012/2016)

Book Chapters, etc.

“Sonorous Psychopaths: Neo-Victorian Ventriloquists on Screen”, chapter on Victorian ventriloquists and the Ealing film/Cavalcanti’s Dead of Night (1945) and Attenborough’s 1978 film Magic: in (ed.) Benjamin Poore, Neo-Victorian Villains: Adaptations and Transformations in Popular Culture (Leiden and Boston: Brill Rodopi Neo-Victorian Series, June 2017), Chapter 5, pp. 124-141.

‘Dickens Kisses the Sky: London’s greatest novelist and Urban Exploration’ in Leon Litvack and Nathalie Vanfasse, Reading Dickens Differently (Wiley Blackwell, Jan 2020), pp. 185-205.

‘Dickens and Drama,’ in (eds.) Juliet John and Claire Wood, The Edinburgh University Press Companion to Dickens and the Arts, University of Edinburgh Press (May 2024), pp.131-147

Journal Articles

Guest Editor, collection of essays for Special edition entitled ‘Decolonising Dickens’, Ed. and contributor, Nineteen: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, Birkbeck University of London (July 2026, forthcoming)

“Dickens in Arabia: Going Astray in Tripoli,” in E-Rea: Revue électronique d’études sur le monde anglophone, 13 : 2 (2016)

Special edition entitled ‘Dickensian Prospects / Perspectives Dickensiennes ‘Dickens: New Prospects’ edited by Marie-Amélie Coste, Christine Huguet and Nathalie Vanfasse,

https://erea.revues.org/4865

“Dickens, Chaplin and the Politics of Sentimentality – the Tramp” Dickens, Modernism, Modernity ed. Christine Huguet and Nathalie Vanfasse (Editions du Sagittaire, 2014), 2 Vols., Vol 1, 187-210.

Working Papers

‘A Metaphysical Fall: Literature and Conflict’ – my essay contribution to: Thinking and the ‘Fall’ of Kabul: Essays from HE’s frontline before, during and after the American withdrawal from Afghanistan – a collection of responses of AUAF and other HE teachers to the fall of Kabul (joint editor with Dr John Wall). We are currently drawing up a publishing schedule for a special edition of Afghanistan Journal (Edinburgh University Press).

A current project combines 19th century popular culture, (personal) biography, with the topics of race, migration and cultural memory. My great, great aunt was the light opera singer Maud Ellicott who sang in the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company at the turn of the century. She was Anglo-Indian, and, on making her debut as the gypsy girl Mirette, at the Savoy Theatre in 1894, she was hailed as “The Indian Nightingale”. I plan to collect empirical/oral data in England and in India, with a view to presenting a post-colonial reading of her journey from Kolkota to turn of the century London, via the Royal College of Music and brief stardom to marriage to an MP and English ‘respectability’. This project will be concerned with the experience of migration and cultural memory, and with the crossing of racial and class boundaries, as well as with the meaning of biography, nostalgia and Anglo-Indian identity. It will also attempt to pull together a wider analysis of popular culture and the position of women in theatre at that time, taking Maud as a case study.

Dr Mohammad Nazmus Sakib

Assistant Professor of Public Health

Dr. Mohammad Nazmus Sakib is a physician and public health researcher currently serving as an Assistant Professor of Public Health at the Asian University for Women. He holds an MBBS from the University of Dhaka (Holy Family Red Crescent Medical College), an MSc from the University of Manitoba, and a PhD from the University of Waterloo. Dr. Sakib began his clinical career as a Medical Officer at Samorita Hospital Limited and later pursued advanced training in public health in Canada, where he was extensively involved in interdisciplinary public health research. His research focuses on aging, chronic disease, cognitive epidemiology, and translational neuroscience. He has contributed to large population-based health research projects in Canada and has also been actively involved in translational neuroscience research in collaboration with scientists in the United States. In addition, Dr. Sakib has extensive experience teaching public health courses at leading Canadian universities, including the University of Toronto.

“I chose AUW because of its inspiring mission to empower women through education and its truly international academic environment. The university’s commitment to educating talented young women from diverse and often underrepresented backgrounds strongly resonates with my personal and professional values.”

Research Interests

Chronic disease epidemiology, cognitive epidemiology and brain health, translational neuroscience, and longitudinal analysis of population-based health data.

Journal Articles:

1. Palumbo, A. M., Jacob, C. M., Khademioore, S., Sakib, M. N., Yoshida-Montezuma, Y., Christodoulakis, N., Yassa, P., Vanama, M. S., Gamra, S., Ho, P. J., & Sadana, R. (2025). Validity of non-traditional measures of obesity compared to total body fat across the life course: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Obesity Reviews, 26(6), e13894. https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.13894
2. Sakib, M. N., Saragadam, A., Santagata, M. C., Jolicoeur-Becotte, M., Kozyr, L., Burhan, A. M., & Hall, P. A. (2024). rTMS for post-COVID-19 condition: A sham-controlled case series involving iTBS-300 and iTBS-600. Brain, Behavior, & Immunity – Health, 100736. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbih.2024.100736
3. Sakib, M. N., Ramezan, R., & Hall, P. A. (2023). Diabetes status and cognitive function in middle-aged and older adults in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. Frontiers in Endocrinology, 14, 1293988. https://doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2023.1293988
4. Hall, P. A., Sakib, M. N., Hudson, A., Billawala, A., Fong, G. T., & Ayaz, H. (2023). Task-related oxygenation in the prefrontal cortex as a function of mask-wearing frequency: An empirical test using functional near-infrared spectroscopy. NeuroImage: Reports, 3(4), 100192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ynirp.2023.100192
5. Sakib, M. N., Best, J. R., & Hall, P. A. (2023). Bidirectional associations between adiposity and cognitive function and mediation by brain morphology in the ABCD Study. JAMA Network Open, 6(2), e2255631. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.55631
6. Hall, P. A., Ayaz, H., Meng, G., Hudson, A., Sakib, M. N., Quah, A. C., Agar, T. K., Lee, J. A., Boudreau, C., & Fong, G. T. (2023). An analysis of neurocognitive and psychiatric symptoms following infection with COVID-19: Evidence from laboratory and population studies. Brain, Behavior, & Immunity – Health, 100595. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbih.2023.100595
7. Hall, P. A., Meng, G., Sakib, M. N., Quah, A. C., Agar, T., & Fong, G. T. (2022). Do the unvaccinated perform more distancing, mask wearing and hand hygiene? A test of the risk compensation hypothesis in a representative sample during the COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.10.028
8. Sakib, M. N., Best, J. R., Ramezan, R., Thompson, M. E., & Hall, P. A. (2022). Bidirectional associations between adiposity and cognitive function: A prospective analysis of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA). The Journals of Gerontology: Series A. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glac115
9. Sakib, M. N., Ramezan, R., Thompson, M. E., Best, J. R., & Hall, P. A. (2022). Cognitive function is associated with multiple indices of adiposity in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA): A cross-sectional analysis. Psychosomatic Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1097/PSY.0000000000001099
10. Hall, P. A., Fong, G. T., Hitchman, S. C., Quah, A. C. K., Agar, T., Meng, G., Ayaz, H., Dore, B. P., Sakib, M. N., Hudson, A., & Boudreau, C. (2022). Brain and behavior in health communication: The Canadian COVID-19 Experiences Project. Brain, Behavior, & Immunity – Health, 22, 100467. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbih.2022.100467
11. Hall, P. A., Meng, G., Hudson, A., Sakib, M. N., Hitchman, S. C., MacKillop, J., Bickel, W. K., & Fong, G. T. (2022). Cognitive function following SARS-CoV-2 infection in a population-representative Canadian sample. Brain, Behavior, & Immunity – Health, 100454. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbih.2022.100454
12. Hall, P. A., Best, J. R., Beaton, E. A., Sakib, M. N., & Danckert, J. (2021). Morphology of the prefrontal cortex predicts body composition in early adolescence: Cognitive mediators and environmental moderators in the ABCD Study. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsab104
13. Hall, P. A., Sheeran, P., Fong, G. T., Cheah, C., Oremus, M., Liu-Ambrose, T., Sakib, M. N., Butt, Z. A., Ayaz, H., Jandu, N., & Morita, P. P. (2021). Biobehavioral aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic: A review. Psychosomatic Medicine, 83(4), 309–321. https://doi.org/10.1097/PSY.0000000000000932
14. Fatakdawala, I., Ayaz, H., Safati, A. B., Sakib, M. N., & Hall, P. A. (2021). Effects of prefrontal theta burst stimulation on neuronal activity and subsequent eating behavior: An interleaved rTMS and fNIRS study. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsab023
15. McGavock, J., Chauhan, B. F., Rabbani, R., Dias, S., Klaprat, N., Boissoneault, S., Lys, J., Wierzbowski, A. K., Sakib, M. N., Zarychanski, R., & Abou-Setta, A. M. (2020). Layperson-led vs professional-led behavioral interventions for weight loss in pediatric obesity: A systematic review and meta-analysis. JAMA Network Open, 3(7), e2010364. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.10364
16. Sakib, M. N., Butt, Z. A., Morita, P. P., Oremus, M., Fong, G. T., & Hall, P. A. (2020). Considerations for an individual-level population notification system for pandemic response: A review and prototype. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22(6), e19930. https://doi.org/10.2196/19930
17. Hall, P. A., Erickson, K. I., Lowe, C. J., & Sakib, M. N. (2020). Quantifying cortical resilience in experimental, clinical, and epidemiological studies: A conceptually grounded method using noninvasive brain stimulation. Psychosomatic Medicine, 82(3), 281–286. https://doi.org/10.1097/PSY.0000000000000785
18. Sakib, M. N., Shooshtari, S., John, P. S., & Menec, V. (2019). The prevalence of multimorbidity and associations with lifestyle factors among middle-aged Canadians: An analysis of Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging data. BMC Public Health, 19(1), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-6567-x

Book Chapters:

1. Sakib, M. N. (2024). Neurocognitive sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection: Pathogenesis, risk factors, assessment, and implications. In Linking neuroscience and behavior in COVID-19 (pp. 147–160). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95650-5.00020-3

Dr Shanta Dutta

Assistant Professor of Environmental Sciences

Dr. Shanta Dutta is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Sciences at the Asian University for Women (AUW). Dr. Dutta joined AUW during the Fall semester in the academic year 2025-26. Prior to her role at AUW, she served as a Senior Lecturer at the Bangladesh University of Health Sciences (BUHS).

Dr. Dutta obtained her PhD in Environmental Engineering and Science from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. During her PhD and Postdoctoral Fellowship in Hong Kong, her research focused on waste valorization and value-added chemical synthesis. Additionally, during her Master’s thesis at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), she explored ecological sanitation and nutrient recovery from human waste. Dr. Dutta holds a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science and Resource Management from Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University (MBSTU) in Bangladesh.

Dr. Dutta is deeply committed to quality teaching, impactful research, and fostering a sustainable society. She contributed to more than 20 research papers as first author/co-author in renowned Q1 journals. Beyond her scientific research, she focuses on exploring and implementing innovative pedagogies that enhance learning experiences in higher education.

Teaching

Hydrology and Water Management

Research Methods in Environmental Sciences

Nutrient Recycling and Circular Economy

Research Interest

Research interests
Waste Valorization, Resource Recovery from Waste, Eco-sanitation, Environmental Health, Climate Change, Sustainability.

Grants Obtained

Matching Fund Scheme for Postdoctoral Research, 2023-2025, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Book Chapters:

1. Roy, S.*; Islam, M.S.; Tusher, T.R.; Dutta, S. Challenges for achieving sustainable water supply and sanitation in Dhaka city under rapid urbanization. In Emerging Geosustainability Transformations in India, Springer Nature. 2025, 161-176.
2. Xiong, X.; He, M.; Dutta, S. and Tsang, D.C.W.* Biochar and sustainable development goals. In Biochar in Agriculture for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals. Academic Press. 2022, 15-22. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-85343-9.00027-6

Journal Articles

Scientific Research Articles:

First /corresponding author:

• Dutta, S.; Zhang, Q.; Yu, I.K.M.*; Tsang, D.C.W.* Green solvent-mediated catalysis for efficient biorefinery: Unravelling the kinetic and thermodynamic impacts. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2024, 12, 24, 9222–9230.  (Impact Factor: 8.7) https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.4c02000
• Dutta, S.; Zhang, Q.; Cao, Y.; Wu, C.; Moustakas, K.; Zhang, S.; Wong, K.H.; Tsang, D.C.W.* Catalytic valorisation of various paper wastes into levulinic acid, hydroxymethylfurfural, and furfural: Influence of feedstock properties and ferric chloride. Bioresource Technology, 2022, 357, 127376. (Impact Factor: 11.4) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2022.127376
• Dutta, S.; Yu, I.K.M.; Fan, J., Clark, J.H.; Tsang, D.C.W.* Critical factors for levulinic acid production from starch-rich food waste: solvent effects, reaction pressure, and phase separation. Green Chemistry, 2022, 24, 163-175. (Impact Factor: 9.8) ) [Journal Cover] https://doi.org/10.1039/D1GC01948A
• Dutta, S.; Yu, I.K.M.; Tsang, D.C.W.*; Fan, A.; Clark, J.H.; Jiang, Z.; Su, Z.; Hu, C.; Poon, C.S. Efficient depolymerisation of cellulosic paper towel waste using organic carbonate solvents. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2020, 8, 13100-13110. (Impact Factor: 8.7) [Journal Cover] https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.0c04102
• Dutta, S.; Yu, I.K.M.; Tsang, D.C.W.*; Su, Z.; Hu, C.; Wu, K.C.W.; Yip, A.C.K.; Ok, Y.S.; Poon, C.S. Influence of green solvent on levulinic acid production from lignocellulosic paper waste. Bioresource Technology, 2020, 298, 122544. (Impact Factor: 11.4) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2019.122544

Co-author:

• Wang, M.; Xu, Z.; Dutta, S.; Liu, K.; Labianca, C.; Clark, J.H.; Zimmerman, J.B.; Tsang, D.C.W.* Integrated assessment of deep eutectic solvents questions solvometallurgy as a sustainable recycling approach for lithium-ion batteries. One Earth, 2023, 6, 1400-1413. (Impact Factor: N/A) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2023.09.002
• Wang, M.; Liu, K.; Xu, Z.; Dutta, S.; Valix, M.; Alessi, D.S.; Huang, L., Zimmerman, J.B.; Tsang, D.C.W.* Selective extraction of critical metals from spent lithium-ion batteries. Environmental Science & Technology, 2023, 57, 3940-3950. (Impact Factor: 11.4) https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c07689
• Wang, M.; Liu, K.; Dutta, S.; Alessi, D.S.; Rinklebe, J.; Ok Y.S.; Tsang, D.C.W.* Recycling of lithium iron phosphate batteries: Status, technologies, challenges, and prospects. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2022, 163, 112515. (Impact Factor: 15.9) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2022.112515
• He, M.; Zhu, X.; Dutta, S.; Khanal, S.K.; Lee, K.T.; Masek, O.; Tsang, D.C.W.* Catalytic co-hydrothermal carbonization of food waste digestate and yard waste for energy application and nutrient recovery. Bioresource Technology, 2022, 344, 126395. (Impact Factor: 11.4) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2021.126395
• Cao, Y.; He, M.; Dutta, S.; Luo, G.; Zhang, S.; Tsang, D.C.W.* Hydrothermal carbonization and liquefaction for sustainable production of hydrochar and aromatics. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2021, 152, 111722. (Impact Factor: 15.9) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2021.111722
• Xiong, X.; Yu, I.K.M.; Dutta, S.; Tsang, D.C.W.* Valorisation of Humins from Food Waste Biorefinery for Synthesis of Biochar-supported Lewis Acid Catalysts. Science of The Total Environment, 2021, 775, 145851. (Impact Factor: 9.8) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145851
• Simha, P.*; Barton, M.A.; Perez-Mercado, L.F., McConville, J.R., Lalander, C., Magri, M.E., Dutta, S., Kabir, H., Selvakumar, A., Zhou, X., Martin, T., 2021. Willingness among food consumers to recycle human urine as crop fertiliser: Evidence from a multinational survey. Science of The Total Environment, 765, p.144438. (Impact Factor: 9.8) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144438
• Kumar, M.; Dutta, S.; You, S.; Luo, G.; Zhang, S.; Show, P.L.; Sawarkar, A.D.; Singh, L.; Tsang, D.C.W.* A critical review on biochar for enhancing biogas production from anaerobic digestion of food waste and sludge. Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021, 305, 127143. (Impact Factor: 11.1) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.127143

Educational Research Articles:

• Dutta S.; Zhang Y.; He M.; Tsang, D.C.W.* Learning enhancement through deploying personal learning environment & network and problem-based learning assessment, Journal of Educational Research and Reviews, 2024, 12(2), 37-45. (Impact Factor: 496) https://doi.org/10.33495/jerr_v12i2.23.141
• Dutta S.; He M.; Tsang, D.C.W.* Reflection and peer assessment to promote self-directed learning in higher education. Journal of Educational Research and Reviews, 2023, 11(3), 35-46. (Impact Factor: 496) https://doi.org/10.33495/jerr_v11i2.23.111
• Dutta S.; He M.; Tsang, D.C.W.* Problem-based learning as an assessment: Enhancing students’ connective learning and constructive learning. Journal of Educational Research and Reviews, 2022, 10(6), 83-92. (Impact Factor: 1.496) https://doi.org/10.33495/jerr_v10i6.22.124

Dr Aamir Farooq

Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics and Data Science

Aamir Farooq is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Data Science at Asian University for Women (AUW). Since joining AUW in January 2026, he has contributed to undergraduate teaching, curriculum development, student mentoring/advising, assessment, and departmental service, and teaches within the Applied Mathematics and Data Science program. Previously, after completing his PhD, he served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Abbottabad University of Science and Technology (AUST), Pakistan (Nov 2020–Dec 2022), where he taught a range of undergraduate and graduate mathematics courses. He has extensive international research experience, including postdoctoral fellowships at the Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic (Jan 2023–Dec 2023) in statistical signal processing and blind source extraction, and at Zhejiang Normal University, China (Jan 2024–Dec 2025) in Scientific Machine Learning and integrable systems. He has supervised and co-supervised multiple Master’s students and is currently co-supervising a PhD scholar, supporting research in machine learning methods, differential equations, and computational modeling. He earned his PhD in Mathematics from Chongqing University (Dec 2019), following an MS in Mathematics from COMSATS University Islamabad, and earlier degrees in Mathematics and Physics, along with formal teacher training (B.Ed.).

Teaching

For the Spring-2026 at Asian University for Women, the courses taught are:

• Calculus I
• Probability and Statistics
• Numerical Analysis I
• Advanced Mathematics

Research interests

Scientific Machine Learning (SciML) and Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs); Bio-Inspired Optimization; Uncertainty Quantification and Inverse Problems; Statistical Signal Processing and Information Bounds; Differential Equations and Nonlocal Models; Numerical Linear Algebra and Matrix Perturbation Theory.

Project involvements:

• Postdoctoral Researcher, Zhejiang Normal University (China): SciML, PINNs, and Integrable Systems.
• Postdoctoral Researcher, Technical University of Liberec (Czech Republic): Statistical Signal Processing and Blind Source Extraction.
• Co-Principal Investigator, King Saud University (Saudi Arabia), Project RSP-2020/58: Engineering Problems Using Mathematical Physics Tools.
• Participant, National Natural Science Foundation of China (11671060) and Chongqing Natural Science Foundation Project (cstc2019jcyj-msxmX0267).

Grants Obtained:

• Chinese Government Scholarship for PhD in Mathematics (2016).
• Co-PI, King Saud University Research Support Project (RSP-2020/58).

Publications List:

1. Sadique Rehman, Aamir Farooq*, and Malik Ahsin Iqbal.
   “Neuro-heuristic and regression-based modeling of three-dimensional Williamson–micropolar nanofluid flow with regularization and uncertainty quantification.”
   Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (Accepted) (Zone-I (CAS), Q-1, SCI).
   ScienceDirect Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0952197625036991
   DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2025.113667
2. Qasim, Muhammad, Hamza Ali, Aamir Farooq^*, Muhammad Kamran, Hijaz Ahmad, Fuad A. Awwad, and Emad A. A. Ismail.
   “Intelligent neural framework for modeling the lifestyle-induced remission in type 2 diabetes.”
   Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 205 (2026): 117841. (Accepted) (Zone-I (CAS), Q-1, SCI).
   ScienceDirect Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960077925018557

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2025.117841

1. Aamir Farooq, Sadique Rehman, and Wen-Xiu Ma*.

“Comparative study of regression-based data-driven models for thermally stratified Carreau nanofluids with magnesium oxide nanoparticles.” (Accepted) (Zone-II (CAS), Q-1, SCI).

Physics of Fluids 37, no. 8 (2025).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0274063

AIP Link: https://pubs.aip.org/aip/pof/article-abstract/37/8/082032/3358657

1. Aamir Farooq, Kamil Shah^*, Mohamed Anass El Yamani, Usman Khan, Jamal Shah, and Wen Xiu Ma*.

Revolutionizing Corruption Dynamics: Integrating Jury Influence and Fractional Approaches with Neural Network and Optimal Control.

Expert Systems with Applications (Accepted) (Zone-I (CAS), Q-1, SCI).

ScienceDirect Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0957417425027289

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2025.12911

1. Aamir Farooq, Riaz, H. W. A., and Wen Xiu Ma*.

On symmetry solutions of nonlocal complex coupled dispersionless system using Darboux transformation and artificial neural networks.

Chinese Journal of Physics (Accepted) (Zone-II (CAS), Q-1, SCI).

ScienceDirect Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0577907325002886

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cjph.2025.07.021

1. Riaz, H. W. A., and Aamir Farooq*

Hybrid analytical and neural-network approaches to the non-local short pulse equation.

The European Journal of Physics C (Accepted) (Zone-II (CAS), Q-1, SCI).

Springer Link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-14634-8

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-14634-8

1. Aamir Farooq, Wen Xiu Ma*, Sadique Rehman, J. R. M. Borhan, and M. Mamun Miah.

Unveiling Soliton Dynamics in the Unstable Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation through Computational and Analytical Exploration.

Indian Journal of Physics (Accepted) (Zone-IV (CAS), Q-3, SCI).

Springer Link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12648-025-03750-6

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12648-025-03750-6

1. Sadique Rehman, Aamir Farooq*, Majid Hussain Shah, Marouan Kouki, Nehad Ali Shah.

Neural and Neuro-Fuzzy Simulation of Mixed Convective Carreau Blood Nanofluid Flow with Magnesium Oxide Nanoparticles.

Case Studies in Thermal Engineering (Accepted) (Zone-II (CAS), Q-1, SCI).

ScienceDirect Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214157X25013279

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csite.2025.107067

1. Riaz, H. W. A., Aamir Farooq, and J. Lin.*

PT-Symmetry in Nonlocal Spatial Discrete Complex Coupled Dispersionless System: Analytical and Computational Insights.

Nonlinear Dynamics (Accepted) (Zone-II (CAS), Q-1, SCI).

Springer Link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11071-025-11216-x

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-025-11216-x

1. Mustafa, Rafay, Farman Ullah Khan, Aamir Farooq*, and Anam Rani.

Robust Application of Bayesian Neural Networks to Equilibrium Dispersive Model of Chromatography Using Monte Carlo Simulations. Chromatographia (2025): 1–17. (Zone-IV (CAS), Q-1, SCI).

Springer Link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10337-025-04463-y

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10337-025-04463-y

1. Riaz, H. W. A., and Aamir Farooq*

Solitonic solutions for the reduced Maxwell-Bloch equations via the Darboux transformation and artificial neural network in nonlinear wave dynamics.

Physica Scripta 99, no. 12 (2024): 126010. (Zone-III (CAS)), (Q-2), (SCI).

IOP Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1402-4896/ad9420

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1402-4896/ad9420

1. Wang, Fuzhang, Sadique Rehman, Majid Hussain Shah, Mohamed Anass El Yamani, Sohail Farooq, and Aamir Farooq*

Numerical computation of Cross nanofluid model using neural network and Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System with statistical insights for enhanced flow optimization.

Expert Systems with Applications (2024): 125721. (Zone-I (CAS)), (Q-1), (SCI).

ScienceDirect Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0957417424025880

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2024.125721

1. Riaz, H. W. A., and Aamir Farooq*

A (2+1) modified KdV equation with time-dependent coefficients: exploring soliton solution via Darboux transformation and artificial neural network approach.

Nonlinear Dynamics (2024): 1-17. (Zone-II (CAS)), (Q-1), (SCI).

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11071-024-10423-2\

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-024-10423-2

1. Shah, Kamil, Liu Wenqi, Mohamed Anass El Yamani, Usman Khan, Sadique Rehman, and Aamir Farooq*

Neural Network Approach for Cholera Dynamics:

Integrating Deterministic and Stochastic Insights Knowledge-Based Systems (2024): 111957. (Zone-I (CAS)), (Q-1), (SCI).

ScienceDirect Link:

http://sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0950705124005914

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2024.111957

1. Aamir Farooq*, Sadique Rehman, Mujahid Ullah, M. S. Abbas, K. El-Rashidy, M. Mamun Miah, and Mohammad Kanan.

Numerical Computation and Statistical Interpretations of Heat Transfer of Tween-20/ethyl Acetate Nanofluid Flow with Melting Rheological Quality and Activation Energy.

Contemporary Mathematics (2024): 4949-4974. (Zone-IV (CAS)), (Q-3), (SCI).

https://ojs.wiserpub.com/index.php/CM/article/view/5398

DOI: https://doi.org/10.37256/cm.5420245398

1. Wang, Fuzhang, Rujda Parveen, Sadique Rehman, Aamir Farooq*, Hadil Alhazmi, A. F. Aljohani, Ilyas Khan, and Abdulrahman SA Omer.

Artificial Neural Computing and Statistical Analysis of Heat and Mass Transport of Nanofluid Flow with Melting Heat and Thermal Stratification.

Case Studies in Thermal Engineering (2024): 104563. (Zone-II (CAS)), (Q-1), (SCI).

ScienceDirect Link:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214157X2400594

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csite.2024.104563

1. Zbynek Koldovsky∗, Jaroslav ˇCmejla, and Aamir Farooq.

Blind source extraction using Kronecker product structured mixing model.

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 155, no. 3 Supplement (2024): A141-A142. (Zone-III (CAS)), (Q-1), (SCI).

https://pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/article/155/3_Supplement/A141/3301317

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0027093

1. Aamir Farooq*, Rewayat Khan, Uzma Rani, and Mohammad Tariq Rahim.

Rigorous perturbation bounds for the QX decomposition for centrosymmetric matrices Linear and Multilinear Algebra (2025).

1-26. (Zone-IV (CAS)), (Q-2), (SCI).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03081087.2025.2464652

1.  Aamir Farooq*, Mahvish Samar, Rewayat Khan, Hanyu Li, and Muhammad Kamran. Perturbation analysis for the Takagi vector matrix.

Special Matrices 10, no. 1 (2022): 23-33. (Zone-IV (CAS)), (Q-2), (SCI).

DOI : https://doi.org/10.1515/spma-2020-0144

1. Aamir Farooq*, and Mahvish Samar.

Multiplicative perturbation bounds for the block Cholesky downdating problem. International Journal of Computer Mathematics 97, no. 12 (2020): 2421-2435. (Zone-IV (CAS)), (Q-1), (SCI).

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00207160.2019.1699072

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00207160.2019.1699072

1.  Aamir Farooq*, Mahvish Samar, Hanyu Li, and Chunlai Mu.

Sensitivity analysis for the block Cholesky downdating problem.

International Journal of Computer Mathematics 97, no. 6 (2020):  1234-1253. (Zone-IV (CAS)), (Q-1), (SCI).

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00207160.2019.1699072

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00207160.2019.1699072

1. Aamir Farooq*, and Mahvish Samar.

”Sensitivity analysis for the generalized Cholesky block downdating problem Linear and Multilinear Algebra (2020): 1-26. (Zone-IV (CAS)), (Q-2), (SCI)

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03081087.2020.1751033

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03081087.2020.1751033

1. Aamir Farooq, Mahvish Samar, Hanyu Li*, and Chunlai Mu.

Improved Rigorous Multiplicative Perturbation Bounds For The Generalized Cholesky Factorization And The Cholesky–Like Factorization.

Math. Inequal. Appl 22 (2019): 133-149. (Zone-IV (CAS)), (Q-2), (SCI).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7153/mia-2019-22-10

1. Samar, Mahvish*, Aamir Farooq, Chunlai Mu, and Iram Mushtaq.

Indefinite least squares problem with quadratic constraint and its condition numbers. J. Math. Res. Appl. 40, no. 1 (2020): 57-72. (Zone-IV (CAS)), (Q-2), (SCI).

 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344776317

1.  Samar, Mahvish*, Aamir Farooq, and Chun-lai Mu.

Structured condition numbers and statistical condition estimation for the LDU factorization

Applied Mathematics-A Journal of Chinese Universities 35, no. 3 (2020): 332-348. (Zone-IV (CAS)), (Q-2), (SCI).

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11766-020-3659-4

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11766-020-3659-4

1. Samar, Mahvish*, and Aamir Farooq.

Refined rigorous perturbation bounds for the SR decomposition.

Applied Mathematics-A Journal of Chinese Universities 36, no. 4 (2021): 537-553. (Zone-IV (CAS)), (Q-2), (SCI).

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11766-021-4086-x

DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11766-021-4086-x

1.  Samar, Mahvish, Aamir Farooq, Hanyu Li*, and Chunlai Mu.

Sensitivity analysis for the generalized Cholesky factorization Applied Mathematics and Computation 362 (2019): 124556. (Zone-II (CAS)), (Q-1), (SCI).

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0096300319305399

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amc.2019.124556

1. Khan, Rewayat*, and Aamir Farooq.

Generalized Crofoot transform and applications.

Concrete Operators 10, no. 1 (2023): 20220138. (Zone-IV (CAS)), (Q-3), (SCI).

https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/conop-2022-0138/html

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/conop-2022-0138

1.  H. W. A. Riaz∗ and Aamir Farooq,

Exact solutions and nonlinear wave interactions in a

noncommutative coupled dispersionless system with variable coefficients.

Nonlinear Dynamics (Accepted) (Zone-II (CAS)), (Q-1), (SCI).

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11071-025-11833-6

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-025-11833-6

1.  Abdullah Khan∗, Aamir Farooq, Shaaban M. Shaaban, and Azeem Hafiz P A.

Role of Modified Cairns-Tsallis Distribution on Modulational Instability and Akhmediev Breathers in Electronegative

Plasmas Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation (2025): (Accepted).

(Zone-II (CAS)), (Q-1), (SCI).

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1007570425003788

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cnsns.2025.108967

1. Sadique Rehman, Aamir Farooq, H. W. A. Riaz∗, Kamran Ullah Khan, Majid Hussain Shah,

Muhammad Ramzan.

Analyzing the Double-chain Deoxyribonucleic Acid Model: bifurcation, chaos, and sensitivity insights through advanced analytical Techniques.

Theory in Biosciences (2025): (in press). (Zone-IV (CAS)), (Q-3), (SCI)

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12064-025-00439-6

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12064-025-00439-6

1. Muhammad Ishfaq Khan, H.W.A. Riaz, Saira Basharat, Aamir Farooq∗, Jamilu Sabi’u.

Modulation Instability and Nonlinear Dynamics in the (2+1)-Dimensional Complex mKdV System:

Innovative Soliton Solutions via Jacobi Elliptic Function Method Pramana (2025): (Accepted).

(Zone-IV (CAS)), (Q-2), (SCI).

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12043-025-02970-z

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12043-025-02970-z

1. Abdullah Khan∗, Aamir Farooq, A.A. Abid, Malik Sadam Hussain, Wen-Xiu Ma, and Shaaban

1. Shaaban.

Exploring non-Maxwellian distributions’ effects on modulational instability and rogue wave triplets in ion-acoustic plasmas.

Chaos, Solitons & Fractals (2025): 116262. (Zone-I (CAS)), (Q-1), (SCI).

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960077925002759

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2025.116262

1.  Khan, M. Waleed Ahmed, Imad Khan∗, and Aamir Farooq.

Thermal evaluation of curved stretching surface with porosity and ternary hybrid nanofluid: Utilizing a shooting numerical approach.

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (2025): 1-12. (Zone-III (CAS)), (Q-2), (SCI).

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10973-024-13896-w

            DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-024-13896-w

1. Riaz, H. W. A., and Aamir Farooq∗.

Analytical solutions and instability analysis of truncated Mfractional coupled dispersionless equations Physica Scripta 99, no. 12 (2024): 125230. (Zone-III (CAS)), (Q-2), (SCI).

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1402-4896/ad8d45/meta

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1402-4896/ad8d45

1.  H. W. A. Riaz and Aamir Farooq∗.

Exploring soliton solutions of coupled dispersionless equations with new insights into bifurcation, chaos, and sensitivity through advanced analytical techniques.

Optical and Quantum Electronics 56, no. 11 (2024): 1-25. (Zone-III (CAS)), (Q-2), (SCI).

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11082-024-07615-w

DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-024-07615-w

1.  Khan, Muhammad Ishfaq, Abdullah Khan, and Aamir Farooq∗.

Analyzing the Kuralay-II equation: bifurcation, chaos, and sensitivity insights through conformable derivative and Jacobi elliptic function expansion.

Physica Scripta 99, no. 9 (2024): 095210. (Zone-III (CAS)), (Q-2), (SCI).

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1402-4896/ad67af

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1402-4896/ad67af

1.  Khan, Muhammad Ishfaq, Jamilu Sabi’u, Abdullah Khan, Sadique Rehman, and Aamir Farooq∗.

Unveiling new insights into soliton solutions and sensitivity analysis of the Shynaray-IIA equation through improved generalized Riccati equation mapping method.

Optical and Quantum Electronics 56, no. 8 (2024): 1339. (Zone-III (CAS)), (Q-2), (SCI).

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11082-024-07271-0

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-024-07271-0

1. Aamir Farooq∗, Muhammad Ishfaq Khan, and Wen Xiu Ma.

Exact solutions for the improved mKdv equation with conformable derivative using the Jacobi elliptic function expansion method.

Optical and Quantum Electronics 56, no. 4 (2024): 542. (Zone-III (CAS)), (Q-2), (SCI).

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11082-023-06258-7

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-023-06258-7

1. Aamir Farooq∗, Wen Xiu Ma, and Muhammad Ishfaq Khan.

Exploring exact solitary wave solutions of Kuralay-II equation based on the truncated M-fractional derivative using the Jacobi Elliptic function expansion method.

Optical and Quantum Electronics 56, no. 7 (2024): 1105. (Zone-III (CAS)), (Q-2), (SCI).

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11082-024-06841-6

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-024-06841-6

1. Aamir Farooq∗, Muhammad Ishfaq Khan, Kottakkaran Sooppy Nisar, and Nehad Ali Shah.

A detailed analysis of the improved modified Korteweg-de Vries equation via the Jacobi elliptic function expansion method and the application of truncated M-fractional derivatives.

Results in Physics 59 (2024): 107604. (Zone-II (CAS)), (Q-1), (SCI).

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211379724002870

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rinp.2024.107604

1. Khan, Muhammad Ishfaq, Aamir Farooq∗, Kottakkaran Sooppy Nisar, and Nehad Ali Shah.

Unveiling new exact solutions of the unstable nonlinear Schr¨odinger equation using the improved modified Sardar sub-equation method.

Results in Physics 59 (2024): 107593. (Zone-II (CAS)), (Q-1), (SCI).

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211379724002766

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rinp.2024.107593

1.  Raza, Haider, Sohail Farooq, Sobia Sattar, Sadique Rehman, Aamir Farooq*, Muhammad Kamran, Mansoor Alshehri, and Nehad Ali Shah.

Melting phenomenon of thermally stratified MHD Powell–Eyring nanofluid with variable

porosity past a stretching Riga plate.

Reviews on Advanced Materials Science 63, no. 1 (2024): 20240020. (Zone-III (CAS)), (Q-2), (SCI).

https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/rams-2024-0020/html

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rams-2024-0020

1. Hayat, U., Shaiq, S., Nisar, K.S., Shahzad, A.,Aamir Farooq*, Kamran, M. and Shah,N.A.,2024.

Comparative study of copper nanoparticles over radially stretching sheet with water and silicone oil. Nanotechnology Reviews, 13(1), p.20230200. (Zone-III (CAS)), (Q-1), (SCI).

https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/ntrev-2023-0200/html

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ntrev-2023-0200

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rinp.2023.106542DOI:

1.  Lin, Yuanjian, Sadique Rehman, Nevzat Akkurt, Tim Shedd, Muhammad Kamran, Muhammad Imran Qureshi, Thongchai Botmart, Abdulaziz N. Alharbi, Aamir Farooq*, and Ilyas Khan.

Free convective trickling over a porous medium of fractional nanofluid with MHD and heat source/sink.

Scientific Reports 12, no. 1 (2022): 1-17.

http://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211379723003352

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rinp.2023.106542

1. Farooq, Aamir*, Sadique Rehman, Abdulaziz N. Alharbi, Muhammad Kamran, Thongchai Botmart, and Ilyas Khan.

Closed-form solution of oscillating Maxwell nano-fluid with heat and mass transfer.

Scientific Reports 12, no. 1 (2022): 1-13. (Zone-III (CAS)), (Q-1), (SCI).

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-16503-w

 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-16503-w

1.  Zhang, Juan, Fuzhang Wang, Muhammad Tamoor, Muhammad Kamran, Aamir Farooq*, Sadique Rehman, Amnah S. Aljohani, Ilyas Khan, Soliman Alkhatib, and Hijaz Ahmad. Influence of chemical reaction on MHD Newtonian fluid flow on a vertical plate in a porous medium in conjunction with thermal radiation.

Open Physics 20, no. 1 (2022): 302-312. (Zone-III (CAS)), (Q-1), (SCI).

https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/phys-2022-0028/html

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/phys-2022-0028

1. Muhammad Kamran*, Aamir Farooq, Hijaz Ahmad, Yu-Ming Chu, Azeem Shahzad, Farman Ullah Khan, Ali Sikandar Khan,

On the Taylor-Couette Flow of Fractional Oldroyd-B Fluids in a Cylindrically Symmetric Configuration Using Transforms.

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC). (2022). (Zone-IV (CAS)), (Q-3), (SCI).

DOI: https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S0129183122500991

1. Zheng, Kehong, Fuzhang Wang, Muhammad Kamran, Rewayat Khan, Ali Sikandar Khan, Sadique Rehman, and Aamir Farooq*.

On rate type fluid flow induced by rectified sine pulses.

AIMS Mathematics 7, no. 2 (2022): 1615-1627. (Zone-III (CAS)), (Q-1), (SCI).

https://www.aimspress.com/article/id/617bd041ba35de0eb0deb181

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3934/math.2022094

1.  Tang, Ruihua, Sadique Rehman, Aamir Farooq, Muhammad Kamran, Muhammad Imran Qureshi, Asfand Fahad*, and Jia-Bao Liu.

A comparative study of natural convection flow of fractional Maxwell fluid with uniform heat flux and radiation..

Complexity 2021 (2021). (Zone-IV (CAS)), (Q-2), (SCI).

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1155/2021/9401655

DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/9401655

1. Tamoor, Muhammad, Muhammad Kamran, Sadique Rehman, Aamir Farooq, Rewayat Khan, Jung Rye Lee, and Dong Yun Shin.

Modelling of Applied Magnetic Field and Thermal Radiations Due to the Stretching of a Cylinder.

Processes 9, no. 6 (2021): 1077. (Zone-IV (CAS)), (Q-2), (SCI).

https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9717/9/6/1077

DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3390/pr9061077

1.  Wang, Fuzhang, Juan Zhang, Imtiaz Ahmad*, Aamir Farooq, and Hijaz Ahmad.

A novel meshfree strategy for a viscous wave equation with variable coefficients.

Frontiers in Physics 9 (2021): 359. (Zone-IV (CAS)), (Q-2), (SCI).

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physics/articles/10.3389/fphy.2021.701512

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2021.701512

1.  Kamran, Muhammad, Yasir Bashir, Aamir Farooq, Azeem Shahzad, A. Mousa Abd Allah, Hammad Alotaibi, and Hijaz Ahmad*.

Study the helicoidal flow through cylindrical annuli with prescribed shear stresses.

Results in Physics 23 (2021): 103993. (Zone-II (CAS)), (Q-1), (SCI).

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211379721001625

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rinp.2021.103993

1. Aamir Farooq, Muhammad Kamran, Yasir Bashir, Hijaz Ahmad, Azeem Shahzad, and Yu-Ming Chu.

On the flow of MHD generalized Maxwell fluid via the porous rectangular duct.

Open Physics 18, no. 1 (2020): 989-1002. (Zone-IV (CAS)), (Q-2), (SCI).

https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/phys-2020-0209/html

DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1515/phys-2020-0209

1. Song, Ying Qing, Aamir Farooq, Muhammad Kamran, Sadique Rehman, Muhammad Tamoor, Rewayat Khan, Asfand Fahad, and Muhammad Imran Qureshi.

Analytical Solution of Fractional Oldroyd-B Fluid via Fluctuating Duct Complexity 2021 (2021). (Zone-IV (CAS)), (Q-2), (SCI). 7/10

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1155/2021/9576873

DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/9576873

1.  Wang, Fuzhang, Sadique Rehman, Jamel Bouslimi, Hammad Khaliq, Muhammad Imran Qureshi, Muhammad Kamran, Abdulaziz N. Alharbi, Hijaz Ahmad, and Aamir Farooq*.

Comparative study of heat and mass transfer of generalized MHD Oldroyd-B bio-nano fluid in a permeable medium with ramped conditions.

Scientific Reports 11, no. 1 (2021): 1-32. (Zone-III (CAS)), (Q-1), (SCI).

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-02326-8

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-02326-8

1. Ahmed, Jawad, Azeem Shahzad, Aamir Farooq, Muhammad Kamran, Salah Ud-Din Khan, and Shahab Ud-Din Khan.

Thermal analysis in swirling flow of titanium dioxide-aluminum oxide water hybrid nanofluid over a rotating cylinder.

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry 144, no. 6 (2021): 2175-2185. Zone-III (CAS)), (Q-2), (SCI).

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10973-020-10190-3

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-020-10190-3

1. Shahzad, Azeem, Ramzan Ali, Muhammad Kamran, Salah Ud-Din Khan, Shahab Ud-Din Khan, and Aamir Farooq.

Axisymmetric flow with heat transfer over exponentially stretching sheet:

A computational approach Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 554 (2020): 124242. Zone-II (CAS)), (Q-2), (SCI).

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378437120300613

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2020.124242

1. Ahmed, Jawad, Azeem Shahzad, Aamir Farooq, Muhammad Kamran, Salah Ud-Din Khan, and Shahab Ud-Din Khan.

Radiative heat transfer in Homann stagnation-point flow of hybrid nanofluid.

Applied Nanoscience 10, no. 12 (2020): 5305-5314. Zone-IV (CAS)), (Q-4), (SCI).

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13204-020-01464-1

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13204-020-01464-1

1. Shahzad, Azeem, Uzma Gulistan, Ramzan Ali, Azhar Iqbal, Ali Cemal Benim, Muhammad Kamran, Salah Ud-Din Khan, Shahab Ud-Din Khan, and Aamir Farooq.

Numerical Study of Axisymmetric Flow and Heat Transfer in a Liquid Film over an Unsteady Radially Stretching Surface.

Mathematical Problems in Engineering 2020 (2020). Zone-IV (CAS)), (Q-4), (SCI)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/2020/6737243

DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/6737243

Note: “*” Denotes corresponding author

Dr Md Anowar Hossain

Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Dr. Md. Anowar Hossain is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Asian University for women. Dr. Hossain is a distinguished researcher in the field of computational science. With a multidisciplinary academic foundation and a deep commitment to research excellence, Dr. Hossain has emerged as a leading expert in traffic flow dynamics, complex systems, and multi-agent simulation.

Dr. Hossain earned his Ph.D. from Kyushu University, Japan. His doctoral thesis focused on mathematical modeling and multi-agent simulation of traffic flow dynamics, a theme that continues to be central to his research. Prior to that, he completed his Master of Science in Mathematics from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), where he ranked first in his class and was awarded a gold medal for his academic excellence. His undergraduate degree in Mathematics was completed at Pabna University of Science and Technology, where he graduated with distinction.

Dr. Hossain has held several academic and research positions, including roles as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Japan, for 2 years and at Kyushu University, Japan, for 5 months. In Bangladesh, he contributed to academia as a Lecturer of Mathematics at Daffodil International University and City University for more than 2.5 years.

Dr. Hossain is the recipient of several prestigious awards, including the Japanese Government (MEXT) Scholarship for both doctoral and research studies. He is also a grantee of the JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) for his ongoing work in traffic modeling and simulation.

Dr. Hossain continues to contribute to cutting-edge research at the intersection of mathematics, engineering, and computer science.

Teaching

1. GE-MATH1001 Mathematics
2. GE-MATH1002 Calculus I
3. GE-MPAS1001 Probability and Statistics

Research interests
Mathematical Modeling, Multi-Agent Simulation, Developing Next-Generation Autonomous Vehicular System relies on AI, Complex Science, Complex Network, Social Dilemma Analysis, and Decision-Making Process.

Project involvements

Project Tittle: A traffic movement control mitigated social dilemma for an emergency evacuation by minimizing time-cost.

Grants Obtained

1. JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (KAKENHI) 2025, Grant No. JP 25K00232, Monetary value: 50,00,000 JPY

Journal Articles

1. A. Hossain, N. ITO, and J. Tanimoto, An intellectual drivers’ sensitivity traffic model for adapting taillight effects, Nonlinear Dyn. 112 (20), 18121–18135 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/S11071-024-09964-3
2. Z. Hosen, M. A. Hossain, and J. Tanimoto, Traffic Model for the Dynamical Behavioral Study of a Traffic System Imposing Push and Pull Effects, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications 129816 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2024.129816
3. A. Hossain, and J. Tanimoto, Diverse reactivity model for traffic flow dynamics in Eulerian scope, Nonlinear Dyn. 111 (18), 17369–17378 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-023-08734-x
4. A. Hossain and J. Tanimoto, A dynamical traffic flow model for a cognitive drivers’ sensitivity in Lagrangian scope, Scientific Reports 2022 121 12, 1–14 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-22412-9
5. A. Hossain and J. Tanimoto, The “Backward-Looking” Effect in the Continuum Model Considering a New Backward Equilibrium Velocity Function, Nonlinear Dyn. 106 (3), 2061-2072 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/S11071-021-06894-2
6. A. Hossain and J. Tanimoto, A Mixed-Flow Model for Heterogeneous Vehicles Enforcing a Movement Control Protocol Utilizing a Vehicular Size-Based Equilibrium Speed Function, Heliyon 10, e23975 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e23975
7. Masaka, F. Sueyoshi, M. A. Hossain, and J. Tanimoto, Traffic jam mitigation by the policy of maximum velocity limitation, Modern phy. C. vol. 17, Dec. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1142/S012918312450075X
8. Si, M. A. Hossain, and J. Tanimoto, An improved microscopic traffic model for heterogeneous vehicles using the vehicle’s mass effect, Heliyon, vol. 9, (e16731) May 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e16731
9. Masaka, F. Sueyoshi, M. A. Hossain, S. Utsumi, and J. Tanimoto, Can the introduction of CAVs mitigate social dilemmas causing traffic jams on highways?, Physics Open, vol. 17, Dec. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physo.2023.100176
10. Nishimura, M. R. Arefin, Y. Tatsukawa, S. Utsumi, M. A. Hossain, and J. Tanimoto, Social dilemma analysis on vaccination game accounting for the effect of immunity waning, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 171, 113426 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2023.113426
11. Okita, Y. Tatsukawa, S. Utsumi, M. R. Arefin, M. A. Hossain, and J. Tanimoto, Stochastic Resonance Effect Observed in a Vaccination Game with Effectiveness Framework Obeying the SIR Process on a Scale-Free Network, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 167, 113029 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2022.113029
12. A. Hossain and J. Tanimoto, A Microscopic Traffic Flow Model for Sharing Information from a Vehicle to Vehicle by Considering System Time Delay Effect, Phys. A Stat. Mech. Its Appl. 585, 126437 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2021.126437
13. A. Hossain, K. M. A. Kabir, J. Tanimoto, Improved Car-Following Model Considering Modified Backward Optimal Velocity and Velocity Difference with Backward-Looking Effect, J. Appl. Math. Phys. 9, 242 (2021). https://doi.org/10.4236/JAMP.2021.92018
14. Sueyoshi, M. A. Hossain, and J. Tanimoto, A dilemma study of the traffic flow system emerged due to the lane-change by follower’s tailgating effect, (Accepted by Scientific Reports) Preprint. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4483521/v1
15. Z. Hosen, M. A. Hossain, and J. Tanimoto, Study of an Eco-Friendly Traffic Flow Model Utilizing Pulling and Brake Light Effects from the Microscopic Perspective, (Accepted by Heliyon) Preprint. https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4934775

Conferences paper

1. A. Hossain, N. Ito, and J. Tanimoto, A Traffic Model for Adjusting Backlight Effects in Eulerian Scope, Proceedings of International Conference on Mechanical Engineering (ICME), 212-1-6 (2023). https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.4874326
2. Si, M. A. Hossain, and J. Tanimoto, Linear s-tability analysis of an improved car-following model considering vehicle’s inertia effect, Proceedings of International Exchange and Innovation Conference on Engineering & Sciences (IEICES). 8, pp.196-200, (2022). https://doi.org/10.5109/5909091
3. 末吉郁, A. Hossain, 谷本 潤, Microscopic Traffic Flow Simulation Considering Threaten Driving Behavior, Proceedings of the 27^th Symposium on Traffic Flow and Self-driven Particles, Nagoya, Japan 2021. http://traffic.phys.cs.is.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~mstf/prog2021.html
4. Fayz-Al-Asad, M. A. Hossain, and M. M. A. Sarker, Numerical Investigation of MHD Mixed Convection Heat Transfer Having Vertical Fin in a Lid-Driven Square Cavity, AIP Conf. Proc. 2121, 030023 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5115868
5. A. Hossain, K. M. A. Kabir, and M. M. A. Sarker, Mathematical Modeling of the Thermofluid Characteristics of Solar Collector for Variable Solar Radiation in Climatic Condition of Bangladesh, AIP Conf. Proc. 1980, 050022 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5044358
6. A. Hossain, K. M. A. Kabir, and M. M. A. Sarker, Study of Fluid Flow in a Channel with Heated Obstacle, AIP Conf. Proc. 1851, 020071 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4984700
7. A. Hossain, and N. ITO, A driver’s sensitivity designed for next-level performance of autonomous vehicles, presented in AROB conference, Japan, Jan. 2025 https://isarob.org/symposium/index.php?main_page=timetable#OS25

Invited Talk

1. Cognitive Driver’s Sensitivity for Next-generation Automated Cruising Traffic. The 271st R-CCS Café, RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Japan, 11^th October 2024. https://www.r-ccs.riken.jp/outreach/r-ccs-cafe/271/
2. Evaluation of a traffic flow field’s social dilemma emerged due to the lane-change by follower’s threatened effect. The 256th R-CCS Café, RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Japan, 24^th November 2023. https://www.r-ccs.riken.jp/en/outreach/r-ccs-cafe/256/

Dr Md Razib Mamun

Assistant Professor of Public Health

Dr. Md. Razib Mamun is an Assistant Professor at the Asian University for Women. He holds a PhD in Public Health and Health Systems from Nagoya University, Japan. With expertise in palliative care, health systems, non-communicable diseases (NCDs), qualitative research, and evidence synthesis, Dr. Mamun has worked at icddr,b, BRAC University, and Bangladesh Medical University. He collaborates with researchers in Japan, Sweden, Ireland, and Bangladesh and is a member of The Cochrane Collaboration. His research focuses on strengthening health systems, improving palliative care, and addressing the rising burden of NCDs to improve public health outcomes.

Teaching

Health and Society

Global Health Policy and Ethics

Qualitative Research Methods

Research interests
Palliative care, End of life care, Dementia, Health Systems, NCDs, Evidence Synthesis

Journal Articles

1. Yoshida Y, Hirakawa Y, Hong YJ, Mamun MR, Shimizu H, Nakano Y, Yatsuya H. Factors influencing interprofessional collaboration in long-term care from a multidisciplinary perspective: a case study approach. Home Health Care Services Quarterly. 2024 Mar 21:1-20.
2. Miah MS, Mamun MR, Saif-Ur-Rahman KM, Zakaria AF. A qualitative exploration of purchasing, stockpiling, and use of drugs during the COVID-19 pandemic in an urban city of Bangladesh. Public Health in Practice. 2024 Feb 15:100477.
3. Saif-Ur-Rahman KM, Mamun R, Hasan M, Meiring JE, Khan MA. Oral killed cholera vaccines for preventing cholera. Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2024(1).
4. Saif-Ur-Rahman KM, Hong YJ, Li Y, Matsunaga M, Song Z, Shimoda M, Al-Shoaibi A, He Y, Mamun MR, Hirano Y, Chiang C. Association of psychological factors with advanced-level functional competency: Findings from the Aichi workers’ cohort study, 2002–2019. Heliyon. 2023 Nov 1;9(11).
5. Mamun MR, Hirakawa Y, Saif-Ur-Rahman KM, Hong YJ, Song Z, Yoshida Y, Yatsuya Good death for people living with dementia: a qualitative study. BMC geriatrics. 2023 Oct 16;23(1):665.
6. Miah MS, Mamun MR, Hasan SM, Sarker MG, Miah MS, Khan MG, Kabir A, Haque MA, Chowdhury NR. COVID‐19 transmission flow through the stigmatization process in Bangladesh: A qualitative study. Lifestyle Medicine. 2022 Jan;3(1):e52.
7. Mamun MR, Hirakawa Y, Saif-Ur-Rahman KM, Sakaguchi T, Chiang C, Yatsuya H. Everyday wishes of older people living with dementia in care planning: a qualitative study. BMC Health Services Research. 2022 Feb 12;22(1):184.
8. Song Z, He Y, Chiang C, Al-Shoaibi AA, Saif-Ur-Rahman KM, Mamun MR, Aoyama A, Hirakawa Y, Matsunaga M, Ota A, Tamakoshi K. Long-term variability and change trend of systolic blood pressure and risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus in middle-aged Japanese individuals: findings of the Aichi Workers’ Cohort Study. Hypertension Research. 2022 Nov;45(11):1772-80.
9. Saif-Ur-Rahman KM, Onishi J, Mamun R, Suenaga H, Chiang C, Hirakawa Y. Job satisfaction among physicians providing health care to the elderly in Japan: a qualitative study. Psychogeriatrics. 2021 Feb 17. doi: 10.1111/psyg.12668.
10. Hasan M, Mamun MR, Saif-Ur-Rahman KM. Parent-adolescent bonding on interpersonal violence in Bangladeshi adolescents: Evidence from the Global School-based Student Health Survey (GSHS) 2014. Children and youth services review. 2022 Jun 1;137:106473.
11. Saif-Ur-Rahman KM, Mamun R, Li Y, Matsunaga M, Ota A, Yatsuya H. Work-related factors among people with diabetes and the risk of cardiovascular diseases: A systematic review. Journal of Occupational Health. 2021;63(1):e12278.
12. Saif-Ur-Rahman KM, Mamun R, Eriksson E, He Y, Hirakawa Y. Discrimination against the elderly in health-care services: a systematic review. Psychogeriatrics. 2021 Feb 26.
13. Saif-Ur-Rahman KM, Shariful Islam S, Hasan M, Hossain S, Mamun R, Shafique S, Mamun A, Khalequzzaman M, Haseen F, Rahman A, Anwar I. Nonpharmacological interventions for the prevention of hypertension in low-and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Human Hypertension. 2019 Nov;33(11):786-94.
14. Saif-Ur-Rahman KM, Mamun R, Nowrin I, Hossain S, Islam K, Rumman T, Kabir E, Rahman A, Dahal N, Anwar I. Primary healthcare policy and governance in low-income and middle-income countries: an evidence gap map. BMJ global health. 2019 Aug 1;4(Suppl 8):e001453.
15. Saif-Ur-Rahman KM, Mamun R, Anwar I. Identifying gaps in primary healthcare policy and governance in low-income and middle-income countries: protocol for an evidence gap map. BMJ Open. 2019 Feb 1;9(2):e024316.

Working Papers / Reports

1. Hossain S, Huq NL, Mamun R, Nowrin I, Tahura S, Sarker M, Khan A and Adams AM (2018). “What is the impact of approaches for addressing insecurity or violence arising from urbanisation?” London: EPPI Centre, Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London. (https://eppi.ioe.ac.uk/cms/Default.aspx?tabid=3709)
2. Hossain S, Spurway K, Zwi AB, Huq NL, Mamun R, Islam R, Nowrin I, Ether S, Bonnitcha J, Dahal N and Adams AM (2018) What is the impact of urbanisation on risk of, and vulnerability to, natural disasters? What are the effective approaches for reducing exposure of urban population to disaster risks? London: EPPI Centre, Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London. (https://eppi.ioe.ac.uk/cms/Default.aspx?tabid=3707)

Dr Francesca Pierini

Assistant Professor in Anglophone Literature and Cultural Studies

Francesca Pierini is Assistant Professor in Anglophone Literature and Cultural Studies at the Asian University for Women, Chattogram, Bangladesh, a former Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Humanities at the same institution, and Adjunct Lecturer at the English Department of University of Basel, Switzerland. She teaches courses in Literary Theory, Women’s Studies and Literature, Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Literature.

Teaching

Women’s Studies and Literature; The Young Adult Novel; Introduction to the Humanities: a User’s Guide.

Research interests

Cultural Studies, Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Literature, Literature and Genre, the Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Romance Novel.

Project involvements
Book Project: Romancing Fiction: Essays at the Intersection of the Literary and Its Outside

Grants Obtained

Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities (2023-2024)

Book Chapters, etc.

2026       “Romantic Magic; Modernist Dreariness: Italian Landscapes in Elizabeth von Arnim’s the Pastor’s Wife.” In forthcoming volume edited by Antonella Braida Laplace, Claire McKeown and Kerstin Wiedemann. Forthcoming.

2023       “Imploding Fireworks: Love and Self-knowledge in the Contemporary Italian Sentimental Novel.” In Love and the Politics of Intimacy, edited by Jordan Savage, Stanislava Dikova, and Wendy McMahon, 149-162. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.

2023      “La Fiaba Oscura: Narrating Italy in Sarah Hall’s How to Paint a Dead Man.” In Sarah Hall: Critical Essays, edited by Elke D’hoker and Alexander Beaumont, 173-193. Canterbury: Gylphi Contemporary Writers (Critical Essays series).

2021       “Roma Spelled Backwards: Love and Heterotopic Space in Contemporary Romance Novels Set in Italy.” In The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love, edited by Ann Brooks, 356–365. London/New York: Routledge.

2021      “Michel Foucault et Edward Said: Le savoir-pouvoir et le fondement de l’analyse du discours colonial.” In Foucault et… Les Liaisons Dangereuses de Michel Foucault, edited by A. Brossat and D. Lorenzini, 103–126. Paris: Vrin.

2021      “Such is the Working of the Southern Mind: A Postcolonial Reading of E.M. Forster’s Italian Narratives.” In The World of E.M. Forster – E.M. Forster and The World, edited by Krzysztof Fordonski and Anna Kwiatkowska, 7–30. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. (Re-published with permission from the Journal of Anglo-American Studies).

Journal Articles

2025        “Now Tell Me What Else It Means”: Reflecting on Genre, Gender, and Canonicity in Contemporary Fiction.” Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate Vol. 34 (2025): 31-61.

2024        “The Garden and The Playground: The Italian Landscape as Catalyst of Change and Restorative Force in Elizabeth von Arnim’s The Enchanted April.” Prospero: A Journal of Foreign Literatures and Cultures (Università degli Studi di Trieste) XXIX (2024): 59-79.

2023        “Healing is Like Falling in Love, but Deeper: Romance and Recognition in YA Cancer Narratives.” Esferas Literarias (Universidad de Córdoba Press) 6 (2023): 57-69.

2023        “Towards a Regime of Authenticity:  Reading A Room with a View Through the Lens of Contemporary Romance Scholarship.” LEA: Lingue e Letterature d’Oriente e d’Occidente (Firenze University Press), 12 (2023): 217-228.

2022        “Venice and the Novella: The Construction of Otherness in Daphne du Maurier’s Don’t Look Now and Ian McEwan’s The Comfort of Strangers.” The Journal of the Short Story in English 78 (2022):143-161.

2022        “Discursive Intertextuality, Parody, and Mise en Abyme in A.S. Byatt’s Short Stories.” Cultural Intertexts 12 (2022): 123-139.

2022        “Romance and Metagenre: A Response to Burkhard Niederhoff.” Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate 31 (2022): 100–111.

2022        “Critical Approaches to the Anglophone Modern and Contemporary Romance Novel: From A Room with a View to Fifty Shades of Grey.” Journal for the Study of Popular Romance 11 (2022): 1–21.

2021        “Sharing the Same Soil: Sally Rooney’s Normal People and the Coming-of-Age Romance.” Prospero: A Journal of Foreign Literatures and Cultures (Università degli Studi di Trieste) XXVI (2021): 141–166.

2021        “Narrative as Mould; Narrative as Modulation: Marie Cardinal, Simona Vinci, and Elizabeth Wurtzel’s Narratives of Illness and Healing.” Comparative American Studies: An International Journal 18, no. 2 (2021): 260–273. Special issue on Elizabeth Wurtzel edited by Rachael McLennan and Maria Torres-Quevedo.

Book Reviews:

2025       “Returning the Gaze to the Painter: Girl with a Pearl Earring” (film review). The Quint: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly  from the North. Forthcoming.

2025       “The Docu-bonkbuster, a Contradiction in Terms? Reading Sara Gay Forden’s House of Gucci in Light of Scholarship on the Genre.” Action, Spectacle (Summer 2025). https://www.action-spectacle.com/summer-2025-part-ii/pierini

2022       Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries, by María Isabel González Cruz, ed. Journal for the Study of Popular Romance 12 (2023): 1-4.

Online papers (fiction and general interest):

2025       “Questioning Anglo-normativity in YA Romantic Fiction Junauda Petrus’s The Stars and the Blackness between Them.” PSA (Postcolonial Studies Association) Newsletter #32: Reinventing the Western Literary Canon.  April 2025.

2025       “The Wound in the Middle.” Cagibi Express+. March 2025. https://cagibilit.com/postcard-from-lancaster-and-chattogram-the-wound-in-the-middle/

2024       “Ordinary People” (poem) Le Parole: autori emergenti e nuovi autori. https://leparole.org/ordinary-people/

2024       “How Can Love Accept Diverse Physical Features of Appearance?” The Diversity of Love. https://love-diversity.org/blog/

2024       “Why Does Love Hurt? This Is What the Story of Lucy and George in A Room with a View Tells Us.” The Diversity of Love. https://love-diversity.org/blog/

2024       “Authentic Love is Challenging and Can Hurt.” The Diversity of Love. https://love-diversity.org/blog/

2024      “A Passage to India at 100: Rereading the Trial Scene” Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate. https://www.connotations.de/2024/07/03/july-2024-a-passage-to-india-at-one-hundred-rereading-the-trial-scene/

2024      “Elizabeth von Arnim’s The Pastor’s Wife.” Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate. https://www.connotations.de/2024/02/29/february-2024-elizabeth-von-arnims-the-pastors-wife/

2023       “Love after Loss in Otherworldly Venice.” The Diversity of Love. https://love-diversity.org/blog/

2023       “The Courage to Love.” The Diversity of Love. https://love-diversity.org/blog/

2023       “Literary Fiction from the Perspective of Romance: Normal People.” Journal of Popular Romance Studies 12 (2023): 1-5.

2022       “Elizabeth von Arnim’s The Enchanted April (1922).” Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate. https://www.connotations.de/2022/11/01/november-2022-elizabeth-von-arnims-the-enchanted-april-1922/

2021       “Literary Fiction from the Perspective of Romance: Don’t Move.” Journal of Popular Romance Studies 10 (2021): 1-3.

Dr Ayan Roy

Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics

I am an Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics at AUW. I joined AUW in the Spring of 2023. I am interested in teaching courses related to bioinformatics and computational biology that include multi-omics analyses, genome biology and evolution, computer-aided drug designing, R and Python programming, machine learning and AI. Previously I worked as an Associate Research Scientist in the Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) at the Columbia University, USA. I did my postdoctoral research from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. I am a computational biologist with an expertise of 13 years in the fields of sequence analysis, multi-omics data analysis, evolutionary modeling and computer-aided drug designing. I hold a Ph.D. degree from the University of North Bengal, India.

Teaching

1. Advance Bioinformatics with Programming [COURSE CODE: BINF4000]
2. BIOL 1100: BIOLOGY I- LECTURE
3. BIOL.1101: BIOLOGY II LECTURE

Research Interests:

• Multi-omics analyses and predictive modeling using machine learning and AI
• Genome sequence analyses
• Codon usage biology
• Computer-aided drug designing
• Viral and bacterial pathogenomics

Project involvements:
1) Multi-omics analyses in long-COVID, Autism and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (in collaboration with Columbia University, USA)

2) Biomarker discovery in Autism using machine learning and AI (in collaboration with Columbia University, USA)

3) Computational drug design against coronavirus (in collaboration with Teesside University, UK and Mangosuthu University, South Africa)

2) Codon usage and evolution of pathogenesis in viral and bacterial pathogens causing human infections (in collaboration with South China Agricultural University, China)

Research Collaborations

• Prof Ian Lipkin, Columbia University, NY, USA
• Yongyi Shen, South China Agricultural University, China
• Claudio Angione, Teesside University, United Kingdom
• devashan Naidoo, Mangosuthu University, South Africa
• Balachandar Vellingiri, Central University of Punjab, India
• Surajit Basak, Scientist-C, ICMR, India

* I am currently accepting students for thesis, and Teaching Assistants

* I am looking for collaborations in multi-omics at AUW

Book Chapters.

Singh B, Roy A*. (2020). Metagenomics and Drug-Discovery. In ed. Metagenomics: Techniques, Applications, Challenges and Opportunities. Springer Nature.

Journal Articles

Journal Manuscripts (Published: 43)

Impact Factor: 274.563 (JCR Thomson Reuters impact factor)

Citations: 557

h-index: 13

i10-index: 16

Publications:

Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=BUYlhpsAAAAJ&hl=en

Selected Publications:

1. Roy A, Guo F, Singh B, Gupta S, Paul K, Chen X, Sharma NR, Jaishee N, Irwin DM, Shen Y. (2021). Base Composition and Host Adaptation of the SARS-CoV-2: Insight From the Codon Usage Perspective. Frontiers in Microbiology 12:548275.(IF: 6.064)
2. Kar P, Saleh-E-In MM, Jaishee N, Anandraj A, Kormuth E, Vellingiri B, Angione C, Rahman PKSM, Pillay S, Sen A, Naidoo D, Roy A*, Choi YE. (2022) Computational profiling of natural compounds as promising inhibitors against the spike proteins of SARS-CoV-2 wild type and the variants of concern, viral cell-entry process, and cytokine storm in COVID-19. Journal of Cellular Biochemistry123(5):964-986. (IF: 4.480)

*Corresponding Author

Dr Ayan Saha

Assistant Professor of BioinformaticsProfessor of Bioinformatics & Joint Programme Director for Biological Sciences

Dr. Ayan Saha is an Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics at the Asian University for Women (AUW). Dr. Ayan has joined AUW during Fall, 2022. Before joining AUW, Dr. Ayan worked for a year and a half as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology at East West University, Dhaka.

Dr. Ayan graduated from the University of Chittagong with a BSc (Hons.) in Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology degree in 2012 and completed an MSc in Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in 2013. Later, Dr. Ayan completed his second MSc in Translational Oncology degree in 2015 at the University of Hull, UK with a Commonwealth Shared Scholarship. There, he worked on the role of bisphosphonates (BPs) in the MMP-2 level of breast cancer. Later in 2016, Dr. Ayan went to Australia to start his doctoral research at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) under the TF Scholarship. His research focused on new treatments for high-risk paediatric acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. As part of his project, he developed a noble in vivo patient-derived xenograft (PDX) mouse model to study minimal residual disease (MRD) cells, identical with patient samples. Dr. Ayan received his PhD in medicine from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, in 2020.

Dr. Ayan has been awarded the National Institute of Physiological Sciences Internship with Fellowship, Japan-2014, Commonwealth Shared Scholarship, UK-2014 and Children’s Cancer Institute Completion Scholarship, Australia-2019.

Research interests

Cancer Biology, Clinical Epidemiology and Computational Biology

Project involvements

• Risk Factors Related to Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Bangladesh.
• Genetics, clinical profile and risk factors of Down syndrome population of Bangladesh.

Journal Articles

• A Saha*, KKS Marma, A Rashid, N Tarannum, S Das, et al. (2022) ‘Risk factors associated with self-medication among the indigenous communities of Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh’. PLOS ONE 17(6): e0269622.
• TB Mahmood, A Saha, MI Hossan, S Mizan, SMAS Aman, and AS Chowdhury. (2021) ‘A next generation sequencing (NGS) analysis to reveal genomic and proteomic mutation landscapes of SARS-CoV-2 in South Asia’. Current Research in Microbial Sciences; Volume 2; 100065
• M Das, S Das, AT Bhuiyan, SD Nath, R Biswas, JD Gupta, A Ball, MJ Alam, MH Karim, RK Nath, and A Saha*. (2021) ‘Factors affecting the outcome of the usage of high-flow nasal cannula on severe or critically ill COVID-19 patients: a multicentric study from a developing nation’. Asian Journal of Medical and Biological Research; 7(3), 260–272.
• A Saha*, MM Ahsan, T-U Quader, MUS Shohan, S Naher, P Dutta, et al. (2021) ‘Characteristics, management and outcomes of critically ill COVID-19 patients admitted to ICU in hospitals in Bangladesh: a retrospective study’. The Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene; Apr 29;62(1):E33-E45.
• FM Omar, A Saha, I Khan, Z Hassan, and L Ali. (2021) ‘Pro12Ala Polymorphism in PPAR-γ Gene of Impaired Glucose Tolerance Subjects in Bangladeshi Population’. (2021) Journal of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences 44 (2):179-89.
• A Saha*, MM Ahsan, T-U Quader, S Naher, F Akter, HMH Mehedi, et al. (2020) ‘Clinical characteristics and outcomes of COVID-19 infected diabetic patients admitted in ICUs of the southern region of Bangladesh’. Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research & Reviews; Dec 30;15(1):229-235.
• RH Chowdhury, I Bhuiyan, A Saha*, IMHAI Mosleh, S Mondol, and CMS Ahmed. (2014) ‘Identification and analysis of potential targets in Streptococcus sanguinis using computer aided protein data analysis’. Advances and Applications in Bioinformatics and Chemistry; Dovepress 7.45.
• RH Chowdhury, R Saha, KMM Islam, K Fatema, F Afrin, MM Hossain, and A Saha. (2014) ‘Analgesic and neuropharmacological effect on ethyl acetate extract of ipomoea pes-tigridis in albino mice’. European Scientific Journal; 10 (27): 344–353.
• KUM Ashraf, P Barua, A Saha, N Mahammad, J Ferdoush, D Das, MH Hussain, and JM Alam. (2014) ‘An immunoinformatics approach towards epitope based vaccine design through computational tools from Bungarus caeruleus’s neurotoxin’. Journal of Young Pharmacists; 6(2): 35–43.
• MM Rahman, R Habib, MA Hasan, MA Amin, A Saha, M Shohel, and A Mannan. (2013) ‘Comparative assessment on in vitro antioxidant activities of ethanol extracts from Averrhoa bilimbi, Gymnema sylvestreand, Capsicum frutescens’. Pharmacognosy Research; 6(1): 36–41.
• J Das, Z Datta, A Saha, SM Nur, P Barua, MM Rahman, KAA Chowdhury, MM Chowdhury, RH Chowdhury, and A Mannan. (2013) ‘A comprehensive study on antioxidant, antibacterial, cytotoxic and phytochemical properties of Averrhoa carambola’. Journal of Bioassay; 2:5.
• A Saha, MJ Alam, KUM Ashraf, and A Mannan. (2013) ‘Computational analysis of bovine alpha-1 collagen sequences’. Bioinformation; 9(1): 042–048.

*Corresponding Author

Working Papers / Reports

• Downregulated expression of APC and AXIN2 is aggravating multiple cancer prognosis: Evidence from a multi-omics study.
• Structural analysis and conformational dynamics of SOCS1 gene mutations involved in Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma.
• Prevalence and determinants of self-medication practices among general population: A cross-sectional study in Thimphu, Bhutan and Chattogram, Bangladesh.
• Risk factors associated with self-medication among the garments worker of Bangladesh.

Dr Md Taslim Uddin

Assistant Professor of Finance

Dr. Md. Taslim Uddin is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Asian University for Women (AUW), with over 13 years of teaching and research experience.

 Before joining AUW, he served as an Assistant Professor of Finance at Independent University Bangladesh (IUB), was a faculty member at American International University Bangladesh (AIUB), Lecturer in Finance at Southern University Bangladesh, and Adjunct Faculty at Bangladesh Marine Academy, Chittagong. He also taught as a Teaching Fellow at AUW for Harvard Business School’s CORe program.

Dr. Uddin earned his Ph.D. in Economics and Banking from Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy, and completed his postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Napoli Federico II. He also holds a Master’s in Economics and Finance (MEF) from the Napoli School of Economics, Italy, and a BBA and MBA in Finance and Banking from the University of Chittagong. In addition, he has received advanced training in Panel Data Econometrics and Financial Time Series from SIdE (Società Italiana di Econometria) in Bertinoro, Italy.

His research spans financial integration, household finance, empirical banking, discrimination studies, and climate finance.

Teaching

• Risk Management and Financial engineering
• Advanced Macroeconomics
• Introduction to Finance

Research

• Research interests:
  Financial integration
• Household finance
• Empirical banking
• Discrimination studies
• Climate finance

Project involvements

1. Economic integration of immigrants in Italy (mortgage discrimination, wealth gap).
2. Women’s participation in financial markets and inclusive development.
3. Climate finance case studies (Bangladesh) funded by SOAS University of London.

Grants Obtained

• 2023- SOAS University of London Grant. Project “Leveraging ‘Climate Technologies’ for Transformative Adaptive Capacity of Vulnerable Communities in Bangladesh” with (Mizan R Khan, Meherun Ahmed, Khaled Saifullah, Zaima Ahmed, and Md Ekhtekharul Islam).
• 2023- SOAS University of London Grant. Project” Financing Transformative Adaptation in Bangladesh” with (Mizan R Khan, Meherun Ahmed, Zaima Ahmed, and Md Ekhtekharul Islam).
• Project: “The Nexus between Women Financial Market Participation and Inclusive Economic Development: Evidence from Bangladesh.2023- SOAS University of London Grant. Project” Evaluating the Effectiveness of Integration of Climate Budgeting and Allocation in Bangladesh” with (Mizan R Khan, Meherun Ahmed, Zaima Ahmed, and Md Ekhtekharul Islam)2022-2023- Sponsored Research grant at Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB).

Journal Articles

Nisar Ahmed, Md Taslim Uddin, Bohi Shajahan and Md. Joynal Abedin (2021) “Nonperforming loans and Banking sector: Evidence from Bangladesh”, SAMSMRITI – The SAMS Journal, Volume 13, Issue 02, January-June 2022, pp. 20-27, ISSN: 0976-304X.

Working Papers / Reports

Mistrulli, Paolo Emilio, Md Taslim Uddin, and Alberto Zazzaro. Discrimination of Im-

migrants in Mortgage Pricing and Approval: Evidence from Italy. No. 675. Centre for

Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF)-University of Naples Federico II-Dept. Economic and Statistics, 2023

Paper Under Review

1. Md Taslim Uddin. From Image to Impact: Unveiling the Influence of Brand Image on Customer Loyalty and Value Co Creation. through Engagement. Journal of African Business
2. Md Taslim Uddin. Driving Corporate Reputation and Loyalty: Unleashing the Power of Corporate Social Responsibility through Brand Attitudes, Image, and Trust. Services Marketing Quarterly

Seminar papers

1. Md Taslim Uddin and Alberto Zazzaro (2024),” Women’s financial market participation Evidence from Italy”; Seminar on Social issues and Economic Studies, Istanbul.
2. Giulia Bettin, Md Taslim Uddin, Emma Sarno, and Alberto Zazzaro (2023). ”Household gender disparity and Financial investments”; Financial Fragility and Financial Education, University of Urbino, Italy.

Research in Progress

1. The Economic Integration of Immigrants: Evidence from Italy (with Alberto Zazzaro and Giulia Bettin).
2. The determinants and impact of non-performing loans in the banking sector of Bangladesh: A Comparative Study on the Islamic Banks and Conventional Banks (With Nesarul Karim and Shahadat Hossain).
3. Measurement of Mutual Fund Performance: Evidence from Bangladesh.
4. The Impact of Remittances on Economic Growth and Development in SARRC countries (with Janesa Christina Gomes)
5. Assessing the Effectiveness of Budgeting and Climate Provisioning in Bangladesh (With Mizan R Khan, Meherun Ahmed, Zaima Ahmed, and Md Ekhtekharul Islam)
6. Adapting to Financial Transformation in Bangladesh (With Mizan R Khan, Meherun Ahmed, Zaima Ahmed, and Md Ekhtekharul Islam)
7. Understanding the Wealth Gap Between Natives and Immigrants in Italy (with Meherun Ahmed)

Dr Dominik Whittaker

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Dominik Whittaker completed his M.A. in mental philosophy at the university of Aberdeen and a PhD. in philosophy at Palacky university in Olomouc. He taught philosophy of religion and renaissance philosophy at Palacky university. He joined AUW on 11.01.2026. Here at AUW he teaches critical thinking and ethical reasoning as part of the General education program and Political philosophy as part of the PPE program.

Teaching

GE-ETH1001 Ethical Reasoning

GE-CRT1001 Critical Thinking

PPE3007/HUM3201 Political Philosophy

Research interests

Primary research interests include philosophy of religion, epistemology and the history of philosophy, particularly early-modern European philosophy.

Book Chapters, etc.

Nejeschleba, Tomáš, and Whittaker, Dominik. “The Labyrinth of Medicine and Medical Reform as a Way Out: Comenius and the Philosophy of Medicine.” Studia Comeniana et Historica (2022).

Journal Articles

Whittaker, Dominik. “Natural Knowledge: An Analysis of Plantinga’s Reformed Epistemology in Light of  Contemporary Cognitive Science of Religion.” e-Rhizome 2, no. 1 (October 2020): 32–52.

Whittaker, Dominik. “Perfecting the Human Mind: An Analysis of J. A. Komenský’s Concept of a Perfect Philosophical System.” Studia Comeniana et Historica 51 (2021).

Whittaker, Dominik. “Faith and Reason in the Epistemologies of Jan Amos Comenius and Pierre Bayle:   A Comparative Study.” Acta Comeniana 37 (2025)

Ms Afrida Asad

Senior Instructor of Environmental Science

Afrida Asad is a Senior Instructor in the Environmental Science Program at AUW, where she teaches GIS and Remote Sensing and Research Methodology for Environmental Science, designs GIS laboratory sessions. She has taught at AUW since Summer 2025, first as Visiting Assistant Professor, and co-chaired the International Conference on Environment and Climate Action (ICECA 2025). She is a DPhil candidate in Clinical Medicine at the University of Oxford and holds an MSc in Global Health Science and Epidemiology (Oxford, Commonwealth Scholar) and an MSc and BSc in Geography and Environment (University of Dhaka).

Teaching

Academic Year 2026–27 (Environmental Science Program):

• GIS and Remote Sensing (4 credits)
• Research Methodology for Environmental Science

Previously taught at AUW (2025): GIS and Remote Sensing; Introduction to Environmental Science; Soil and Geology; Research Methodology – Quantitative Component (MA in Education), co-taught.

Research interests: Spatial epidemiology; vector-borne disease surveillance; remote sensing and deep learning for dengue risk mapping; climate-sensitive infectious diseases; urban environmental health.

Project involvements: DPhil research on ward-level dengue risk in Dhaka (Oxford/MORU/IEDCR); Wellcome Trust-funded Dhaka Dengue Mapping (HOT/GroupMappers); PANDAI EU pandemic-preparedness consortium; MORU South Asia malaria policy (Oxford Policy Engagement Network).

Grants obtained: Commonwealth Master’s Scholarship, FCDO UK (£53,000); UGC Bangladesh research grant, COVID-19 financial burden study.

Book Chapters, etc.

Sultana, R., & Asad, A. (2019). Evaluation of urbanites’ perception about livable city using AHP: A case study of Dhaka City. In Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements (AUC 2019). Springer.

Journal Articles

Asad, A., Kirk, M., Zhu, S., Dong, X., & Gao, M. (2024). Effects of prebiotics and probiotics on symptoms of depression and anxiety in clinically diagnosed samples: Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Nutrition Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1093/nutrit/nuae177

Working Papers / Reports

Asad, A., et al. (2026). High-resolution spatial modelling approaches for dengue surveillance and vector control in urban settings: A systematic review. PROSPERO CRD420251021485. Submitted for publication.

Regional Policy Dialogue on Cross-Border Malaria Elimination in South Asia (2025). Evidence contribution informing six policy recommendations. MORU / Oxford Policy Engagement Network, Bangkok.

Dr Zuhairia Ibnat

Senior Instructor of Biology

Zuhairia is a graduate of AUW Batch of 2020 with a double major in Environmental Science and Bioinformatics. Her undergraduate degree was followed by a Masters of Science in Quantitative and Computational Biology from the University of Trento in Trento, Italy. She has worked on research projects related to single-cell sequencing and data analysis during her masters. Her research interests include studying omics data from a holistic point of view.

Apart from her academics, Zuhairia is an enthusiast of organizing, traveling and crafting.

Ms Amina Akhter

Senior Instructor of Computer Science

Amina Akhter has returned back to Asian University for Women in November, 2023 after teaching here from the year 2010 to 2019 in the Department of Computer Science. She led the Computer Science Program at AUW during her first stint at AUW. In addition to teaching responsibilities, currently she is also the Coordinator of AUW PortFolio Learning Program which offers a series of externally certified, skill-oriented courses like Google and CISCO. She is a United Board scholar for pursuing PhD program in the Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Australia.

Amina started her career with university teaching and worked as a researcher in internet education and research laboratory (intERLab), AIT before joining AUW in 2010.

Her research interest focuses on but not limited to Computer Networking, Cybersecurity, IoT, Data science and leveraging the technology for developing the socio-economic infrastructure of the rising countries in Asia.

Selected Publications

“Learning with MOOCs: Integrating Digital Platform in the Learning Pedagogy to Achieve Global Standard Education”, Innovation in Education: Opportunities and Challenges in Southeast Asia conference, Indonesia, October 29-30, 2019, Amina Akhter, Nabila Alam.

• “Modified AODV for multi constrained QoS routing and performance optimization in MANET”, ECTI Transaction on Computer and Information Technology Proceedings, PP 263- 268, IEEExplore PP 234-238, 2010, Thailand, Amina Akhter, Dr. Teerapat Saungankotchakorn.
• “AAR: Agent Aided Routing for Faster and Efficient Spreading of Messages in Delay Tolerant Networks”, ECTI Transactions on Computer and Information Technology (ECTI-CIT), vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 123-132, 2014, Thailand, Shahid Md. Asif Iqbal, Alok Kumar Chowdhury , Amina Akhter

Working Paper

Review on IoT DDoS Attacks & Mitigation Technique using Machine Learning

Education

PhD: PhD Candidate, Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Australia.

Masters in Engineering: Information and Communication Technologies, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand.

BSc in Engineering: Computer Science and Engineering, KUET, Bangladesh.

Ms Nazifa Rafa

Senior Instructor

Ms Nazifa Rafa is a senior instructor for the Environmental Sciences program. She is an AUW alumna, having graduated with a BSc in Environmental Sciences (summa cum laude) in 2021, and has joined the program in Spring 2026. In 2022, Ms Rafa attained an MPhil in Environmental Policy from the University of Cambridge, supported by the Lady Judy Moody-Stuart Studentship. The generous studentship has been extended for her PhD studies at the Department of Geography, Cambridge, where she is currently writing up her thesis on the politics of disaster management in refugee settings.

Teaching

Environmental Law and Policy

Environmental and Planetary Health

Research interests

Climate Change Adaptation, Mitigation, & Loss and Damage; Disaster/Hazard Risk Reduction; Energy Security; Environmental Health; Environmental Policymaking; Humanitarian Research; Sustainable Development Goals; Waste Management; Water Security

Grants Obtained

1. Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC) Small Grants Program, American Red Cross, 2025 ($10,000)
2. Strengthening Loss and Damage response capacity in the Global South (STRENGTH) Researcher Fellowship Grant, Institute for Study and Development Worldwide (IFSD) & International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), 2024 (£2,500)
3. Small Grants Scheme for Knowledge Exchange and Impact, Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF), Energy Interdisciplinary Research Center (IRC), University of Cambridge2023 (£1,100)

Selected Book Chapters

1. Islam, N., Uddin, S. M. N., Rafa, N., & Gupta, M. (2021). Chapter 17: Exploring Human-Elephant Conflicts and Mitigation Measures in and around Rohingya refugee camps, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. In A. R. K. Gollakota, S. Gautam, & C. Shu (Ed.), Bow Ties in Process Safety and Environmental Management. Identifying the Current Trends And Future Perspectives, 280-296. CRC Press, LLC. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003140382.
2. Tasnim, A., Rafa, N., Kabir, A., & Selvakumar, P. M. (2021). Chapter 67. Consumer Nanoproducts for the environment. In S. Mallakpour, & C. M. Hussein (Ed.), Handbook of Consumer Nanoproducts. Springer. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6453-6_67-1.

Selected Journal Articles

1. Rafa, N. (2026). Moving on the Edge: Climate Change-Induced Hazards and Forced (im)Mobility in Rohingya Refugee Camps. Climate and Development. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2025.2609772.
2. Khanam, F., Rafa, N., & Uddin, S. M. N. (2025). Nature’s Contributions to People (NCP) of rural freshwater ponds in Bangladesh: An exploration of the impacts of pondscape degradation. Regional Environmental Change, 25(92), 1-12. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-025-02430-9.
3. Rafa, N., Zabala, A., & Galway, L. P. (2025). Empirical research review on Solastalgia: Place, people and policy pathways for addressing environmental distress. People and Nature, 7(8), 1811-1825. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.70090.
4. Rafa, N., Khalid, R., & Uddin, S. M. N. (2024). Energy Access and Sustainable Development for Displaced Populations: Achieving energy justice in the Rohingya refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Energy Research & Social Science, 114, 103621. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2024.103621.
5. Rafa, N., Ahmed, B., Zohora, F., Bakya, J., Ahmed, S., Ahmed, S. F., Mofijur, M., Chowdhury, A. A., & Almomani, F. (2024). Microplastics as carriers of toxic pollutants: Source, transport, and toxicological effects. Environmental Pollution, 343, 123190. DOI: https://doi-org.ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/10.1016/j.envpol.2023.123190.
6. Chatterjee, S., Rafa, N., & Nandy, A. (2022). Welfare, Development, and Cost-efficiency: A Global Synthesis on Incentivizing Energy Efficiency Measures through Co-benefits. Energy Research & Social Science, 89, 102666. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102666.
7. Rafa, N., To, T. T. V., Gupta, M., & Uddin, S. M. N. (2022). The Pursuit of Energy in Refugee Contexts: Discrimination, Displacement, and Humanitarian Energy Access for the Rohingya Refugee Displaced to Bangladesh. Energy Research & Social Science, 83, 102334. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2021.102334.
8. Rafa, N., Nuzhat, S., Uddin, S. M. N. U., Gupta, M., & Rakshit, R. (2021). Ecotourism as a Forest Conservation Tool: An NDVI Analysis of the Sitakunda Botanical Garden and Ecopark in Chattogram, Bangladesh. Sustainability, 13(21), 12190. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su132112190.
9. Rafa, N., Ahmed, S. F., Badruddin, I. A., Mofijur, M., & Kamangar, S. (2021). Strategies to produce cost-effective third generation biofuel from microalgae. Frontiers in Energy Research, 9, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fenrg.2021.749968.
10. Rafa, N., Jubayer, A., & Uddin, S. M. N. (2021). Impact of Cyclone Amphan on the Water, Sanitation, Hygiene, and Health (WASH2) facilities of Coastal Bangladesh. Journal of Water, Sanitation & Hygiene for Development, 11(2), 304–313. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/washdev.2021.170.
11. Akhter, M., Uddin, S. M. N., Rafa, N., Hridi, S. M., Staddon, C., & Powell, W. (2020). Drinking Water Security Challenges in Rohingya Refugee Camps of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Sustainability, 12(18), 7325. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su12187325.
12. Rafa, N., Uddin, S. M. N., & Staddon, C. (2020). Exploring challenges in safe water availability and accessibility in preventing COVID-19 in refugee settlements. Water International, 45(7-8), 710-715. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2020.1803018.

Selected Working Papers / Reports

1. Perros, T., Rafa, N., Ferguson, R., & Quigley, P. (2025). Course Corrections: Improving Effectiveness and Efficiency in Humanitarian Energy. Learning from the Past to Design for the Future. Innovation Norway & Global Platform for Action. Available online: https://www.humanitarianenergy.org/assets/resources/Improving_Effectiveness_and_Efficiency_in_Humanitarian_Energy.pdf.
2. Kumar, R., Pauker, C., Santos, M. J., Gyawali, D., Kouame, A. A., Kulmala, S., Lalika, M., Minaverry, C. M., Rafa, N., Sandin, L., and Simatele, M. D. (2024). Chapter 5.2: Options for delivering sustainable approaches to water. In: Harrison, P. A., McElwee, P. D., and van Huysen, T. L. (eds.), Thematic Assessment Report on the Interlinkages among Biodiversity, Water, Food and Health of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. IPBES secretariat, Bonn, Germany. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13850309.
3. Gomez Echeverri, L., Bustamante, M., Jun, M., Rafa, N., Rovenskaya, E., Fujino, J., Suzman, E., Creutzig, F. & Oni, T. (2024). Seeking Synergy Solutions: Integrating Climate and SDG Knowledge and Data for Action. Expert Group on Climate and SDG Synergy. Available online: https://sdgs.un.org/basic-page/seeking-synergy-solutions-four-thematic-reports-55697.
4. Rafa, N. & Khalid, R. (2024). Modern methods of construction (MMC) for net-zero housing: Implications from the social sciences and humanities. UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC). Available online: https://ukerc.ac.uk/publications/modern-methods-of-construction-mmc-for-net-zero-housing-implications-from-the-social-sciences-and-humanities/. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.20749.96487.

Mohammad Moinul Haque

Fashion Marketing Management & Marketing Research

I have been working as a faculty member in the Department of Business Administration at Premier University for more than 24 years. In addition to my role as a professor, I am honored to serve as the Chairman of the same department and as the Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration at Premier University. My academic journey began at the University of Chittagong, where I completed my undergraduate and graduate degrees. Currently, I am pursuing my PhD at the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) of Dhaka University, the premier business school in the country. My academic and research endeavors are driven by a commitment to advancing knowledge in the field of business. My research findings have been disseminated through publications in esteemed peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Service Theory and Practice [Emerald], Journal of Business Administration [IBA], Global Business and Organizational Excellence [Wiley], and IIM Kozhikode Society & Management Review [Sage], among others. I also serve as a reviewer for indexed journals like Young Consumers [Emerald], Asia Pacific Management Review [ScienceDirect], and South Asian Journal of Human Resource Management [Sage], etc.

Qualifications:

PhD Candidate (IBA, Dhaka University), MBA (Chittagong University), BBA (Chittagong University)

Areas of Expertise:

Employee Engagement, Customer Engagement, Work-Life Balance. Organizational Commitment.

S M Sohrab Uddin

Accounting & Financial Management

Currently serving the Department of Finance, University of Chittagong as Professor. Also, worked as Director, Bureau of Business Research, Faculty of Business Administration, University of Chittagong from March 10, 2020 – March 9, 2024. I have been serving the Business School of different private universities of Bangladesh as an Adjunct Faculty since 2004. I have taught different courses at undergraduate and graduate levels including Introduction to Business, Managerial Finance, Multinational Corporate Finance, Entrepreneurial Finance, Islamic Finance, Investment Analysis & Portfolio Management, Working Capital Management, Accounting, and Macroeconomics.

Qualifications:

PhD in Asia Pacific Studies (Specialization in Finance)

Areas of Expertise:

Financial markets, institutions, and instruments with particular emphasis on banking sector development including Islamic finance in developing countries.

Abhi Mishra Das

Apparel Manufacturing Technology and Textile Science

Former Asst. Professor & HoD of Textile & Clothing Technology at Chattogram

BGMEA University of Fashion & Technology (CBUFT). Additionally, serving as a Proctor of CBUFT. Working as Guest Faculty, Department of Fashion Design & Technology at Premier University, Chattogram. Previously worked in the Merchandising Department at Indocine Textiles (bd) ltd & Softex Sweater industries (pvt) Ltd.

Qualifications:

M.Sc. in Textile Engineering, B.Sc. in Apparel Manufacturing Technology, LL.B

Areas of Expertise:

Apparel Manufacturing, Apparel Merchandising, Textile Science

Afroza Rahman

The Elements and Principles of Design and Graphic Fashion Design (Summer 2025)

I am a Fashion Designer. Almost nine years of experience in the field of industry, teaching and research. I have great interest in research in the field of Sustainability in fashion and the fashion business and the social impact of Fashion etc. My expertise includes are Elements & Principles of Fashion Design, Creative Design Analysis, Flat Pattern Making, Draping, E-Fashion, Surface Ornamentation & Decoration, Product Development, Collection Development, Fashion Portfolio.

Qualifications :

M.Sc. in Fashion Design, B.Sc. Hon’s in Fashion Design & Technology (FDT).

Areas of Expertise :

Teaching in the field of Fashion Design & Technology (FDT), Designing Apparel

Products and Fashion Technologist in RMG sector.

Shanewaz Mahmood Sohel

Business Communication & Negotiation and Management Essentials

I am currently serving as a Professor in the Department of Human Resource Management at the University of Chittagong, a position I have held since 14th July 2023. Prior to this, I served as Chairman of the same department from 9th February 2020 to 8th February 2023. I was an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Resource Management at the University of Chittagong from 25th November 2017 to 13th July 2023, and before that, I held the position of Associate Professor in the Department of Management at the same university from 31st March 2016 to 24th November 2017. My academic journey at the University of Chittagong began as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management from 26th July 2010 to 30th March 2016, following my initial appointment as a Lecturer in the same department from 6th April 2008 to 25th July 2010. Prior to joining the University of Chittagong, I served as a Lecturer in the Faculty of Business Studies at Premier University, Chittagong from 4th February 2006 to 5th April 2008.

Qualifications:

MBA, University of Chester, UK, MBA, University of Chittagong

Areas of Expertise:

Human Resource Management, Management, research & publication

Deepasri Baul

Textile Humanities

I am a historian of South Asia, interested in the constitution of the colonial urban in the early twentieth century. My work analyzes how urban space was produced through the intersection of religion and property in late colonial Delhi. My research interests also include religion and history in popular print cultures of contemporary North India. I completed my PhD in modern history from the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. I have taught in the University of Delhi. Currently, I am in the process of turning my doctoral project into a book manuscript. Currently working as an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Qualifications:

D.Phil., M.Phil., M.A. (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India), B.A. (University of Delhi)

Areas of Expertise:

Modern history of colonial south Asia, Urban History, Urban property, popular religion

Julie Hodson

International Retailing & Visual Merchandising, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Fashion Product Development and International Buying & Merchandising

I am the Industry Liaison and a Senior Lecturer for Manchester Fashion Institute teaching across the three fashion business courses: – (Fashion Business and Management, Fashion Buying and Merchandising and Fashion Marketing. I graduated from Liverpool John Moores University majoring in Business Studies and Purchasing, furthering my studies at master’s level at Manchester Metropolitan University. My specialist area of expertise is Supply Chain Transparency, International Fashion Supply Chain Management, and the Circular Economy. Subjects in which I have conducted research for the retail industry, written trade articles and published journal articles internationally.

I am active in research, academic enterprise and work closely with the international retail industry. In addition to my role as Industry Liaison Lead, I also facilitate student’s personal development and academic progress, achievement, career readiness aspirations and transitions into and out of university education.

Qualifications:

BA (Hons) Business and Management, MA Res Fashion Retailing, Postgraduate Certificate in teaching and learning in Higher Education

Areas of Expertise:

Supply Chain Transparency, Buyer/Supplier relationships

Mike Hansell

International Retailing & Visual Merchandising, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Fashion Product Development and International Buying & Merchandising

Since graduating from University of Westminster in London and The Fashion Institute of Technology in New York with an Honours Degree in Fashion Management and Product Development, I have worked at Senior Management levels within the Fashion Industry in own-brand menswear for several international fashion retailers. Experience and areas of specialism include trend forecasting/adaptation, product development, the fashion supply chain and global sourcing, range planning and range building and merchandising. I am currently a Senior Lecturer in Fashion Buying and Merchandising within Manchester Fashion Institute. My extensive industry experience enables me to share relevant and contemporary business information with my students, whether that relates to blue chip retail or entrepreneurship. I take keen interest in researching and discussing contemporary fashion industry practice in buying, merchandising and product development.

Qualifications:

BA (Hons) Fashion Management and Product Development. Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice in Higher Education.

Areas of Expertise:

Buying and Merchandising, Supply Chain Management, Product Development and Management.

Kamruddinn Md Harum

Export Import Documentation

Profile:

Deputy General Manager, Commercial, American & Efird (BD) Ltd.

Qualifications:

Master of Commerce (Accounting)

Areas of Expertise:

Commercial

Abu Mohammad Atiqur Rahman

Course: Business Ethics

Professor in the Department of Management at the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. With over three decades of experience in teaching and academic leadership, he began his career as a lecturer in 1993 and rose through the ranks to become a full professor in 2014. Professor Rahman has contributed to national and international academia through ten published research articles and has held key administrative roles, including Chairman of the Department of Management and membership in the University’s Senate and Finance Committee. Actively involved in community engagement, he served as President and Secretary of the Chittagong University Teachers’ Club (Town) and has mentored students through extracurricular initiatives such as the Management Communication Club.

Qualifications:

Master in Project Evaluation and Management, University of Antwerp, Belgium. Master of Commerce, University of Dhaka.

Dr Azim Mohammad PMP

Lead Consultant, Panacea Private Consulting Group | CEO & Faculty, Institute of Apparel Management

Lead Consultant, Panacea Private Consulting Group | CEO & Faculty, Institute of Apparel Management

Introduction:
Dr. Azim Mohammad is a seasoned industrial engineer and educator with over 15 years of experience in the apparel and manufacturing sectors. He has worked extensively across Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Europe, bridging academia and industry through leadership, research, and professional training.

Qualification:

He holds a PhD from the University of Southern Denmark, a Master’s in Advanced Engineering Management from BUET, and a BSc in Industrial and Production Engineering from SUST. Dr. Azim is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Certified Supply Chain Analyst (CSCA). He also holds a professional pedagogy certification from ITE Education Services, Singapore.

Areas of Expertise:
Dr. Azim specializes in industrial engineering, lean manufacturing, production planning, and supply chain management. He has conducted over 200 professional training sessions, developed national-level curriculum modules, and contributed to initiatives under the Bangladesh National Qualifications Framework (BNQF). His work emphasizes process optimization, leadership development, and sustainable growth in the RMG sector.

John Storm

Visiting Professor, SKEMA & Em Lyon Business Schools | Capability Development Director, Outlander Consulting

Introduction:
John Storm is an internationally experienced educator, consultant, and entrepreneur passionate about unlocking human potential through leadership and communication. Based in Scotland, he has worked across the UK, China, and Southeast Asia, delivering impactful programs that connect business, education, and community development.

Qualification:
John holds an MSc in Sustainable Development from the University of Exeter and a BA (Hons) in Business Management from Edinburgh Napier University. He serves as Visiting Professor at SKEMA, Em Lyon, and Asia-Europe Business Schools and as EMBA Programme Director at the University of Aberdeen.

Areas of Expertise:
His professional interests include business communication, negotiation, cross-cultural leadership, and design thinking. John has led over 100 corporate workshops for global clients such as AstraZeneca, Roche, and Merck, and has co-founded ventures in China and Hong Kong focusing on sustainability and innovation.

Dr Sandra Sutherland Rahman

Professor of Marketing, Framingham State University (USA)

Introduction:
Dr. Sandra S. Rahman is a distinguished academic, researcher, and mentor with a global perspective on marketing, management, and education. She has taught and presented across the U.S., Europe, and Asia, with particular engagement in Bangladesh and Malaysia.

Qualification:
She earned her Doctorate in Business Administration (International Management) from Nova Southeastern University and holds both an MBA and a BS in Business Administration from Suffolk University. A tenured professor and former department chair at Framingham State University, Dr. Rahman has over 30 years of experience in higher education.

Areas of Expertise:
Dr. Rahman’s work centers on international business strategy, corporate social responsibility, and global stakeholder engagement. She is known for promoting experiential and case-based learning and has delivered keynote presentations on sustainability, gender, and ethics in business at leading international conferences.

Rebeka Sultana

Assistant Professor Department of Textile Fashion & Design Banladesh University of Textiles ((BUTEX)

Introduction:
Rebeka Sultana is an accomplished academic and visual artist with over twenty years of experience in fashion design, fine arts, and textile education. She currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Textile Fashion & Design at Bangladesh University of Textiles (BUTEX), where she has also served as Chairperson. Her work reflects a deep connection between creativity, cultural heritage, and contemporary fashion practice in Bangladesh.

Qualification:

She holds both Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts degrees from the University of Dhaka and has completed her Ph.D. at Jahangirnagar University with a focus on “The History and Stylistic Features of Fashion Design in Urban Clothing of Bangladesh: A Dhaka Perspective.” Throughout her academic and artistic journey, she has participated in numerous national and international exhibitions and received several recognitions, including the Special Award at the Terracotta Folake Nirman Workshop (2023).

Areas of Expertise:

Rebeka’s expertise lies in fashion design, textile coloration, illustration, and surface ornamentation. She has contributed significantly to art and design pedagogy and has an extensive portfolio of creative works displayed in leading galleries. Her academic leadership and artistic achievements make her a respected figure in the advancement of Bangladesh’s fashion and fine arts education.

Professor Chu Wai Ching Alice

Adjunct Chair Professor Sanda University, Shanghai,China

Introduction:

Professor Chu Wai Ching (Alice) is a highly distinguished academic and researcher with extensive experience in fashion education, sustainable design, and textile innovation. She has held senior academic positions at the Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong (THEi) and currently serves as Adjunct Chair Professor at Sanda University, Shanghai. Her long and successful career combines academic leadership, research excellence, and cross-border industry collaboration.

Qualification:

Alice holds a Master of Arts in Management from the University of Kent and a Higher Diploma in Fashion and Clothing Technology from Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She is also a Professional Member of the Hong Kong Institute of Textile and Apparel and an Engineer accredited by the Guangdong Textile Engineering Society. Recognized for her contributions to education and research, she has received awards such as the 2021 Contribution Award from THEi and the Best Paper Award in Fashion Design & Business (2017).

Areas of Expertise:

Her areas of expertise include sustainable fashion development, virtual garment fitting technology, AI-based design applications, and fashion retail management. She has led multiple government-funded research projects and curated numerous exhibitions promoting cultural heritage and sustainability. Alice continues to play an influential role in advancing innovation, sustainability, and interdisciplinary collaboration in global fashion education.

Prof Wong Kwan Nam Alvin

Visiting Lecturer. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, School of Fashion and Textiles

Introduction:

Wong Kwan Nam (Alvin) is a veteran fashion industry leader, educator, and mentor with over four decades of global experience in sourcing, procurement, logistics, and supply chain management. His career bridges the worlds of fashion business and academic teaching, and he is known for fostering innovation and entrepreneurship among emerging fashion professionals. He currently serves as a Visiting Lecturer and Entrepreneur-in-Residence at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Qualification:

He holds a Master’s degree in Fashion & Textiles (Global Fashion Management) with Distinction from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where he was placed on the Dean’s Honours List. Additionally, he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Business Studies (Marketing) from the University of Greenwich, along with professional diplomas in Business Management and Fashion & Clothing Manufacture. His strong academic background complements decades of leadership in international fashion companies such as Pepe Clothing and Bel-Air Textiles.

Areas of Expertise:

Alvin’s expertise encompasses global sourcing, supply chain optimization, fabric innovation, and digital transformation. He is credited with pioneering innovations such as Ring Spun Denim and peripheral dyeing, which have influenced modern denim manufacturing. As an educator, he integrates his industry insights into teaching and mentoring, guiding students and startups toward innovation, sustainability, and real-world application in the global fashion arena.

Dr Carter Hawthorne Higgins

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Humanities

Carter Hawthorne Higgins is an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Humanities and teaches courses on Comparative Religions in the Humanities Program. He holds a Ph.D. in Asian Literature, Religion, and Culture and an M.A. in Asian studies, both from Cornell University, and a B.A. with honors in Religious Studies from Wake Forest University. Prior to joining AUW in 2026, he worked as Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore and as an instructor in religious studies at the University of Kansas, Wake Forest University, and Elon University in the US.

Research interests
Hinduism in contemporary India and Nepal; religion, philanthropy, and development in Rajasthan, India; anthropology of religious pluralism

Project involvements

Designed and conducted year-long ethnographic project on the intersection of religious change and charitable contributions to the development of a pilgrimage site in Rajasthan, India, as the basis for a dissertation and book manuscript

Grants Obtained

Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (2012-2013)

American Institute of Indian Studies, Junior Fellowship (declined)

Book Chapters, etc.

“The Changing Flavors of Gogaji Worship,” in Sweetening and Intensification: Currents Shaping Hindu Practices, edited by Amy L. Allocco and Xenia Zeiler (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2025), 165-189.

“The Evocative Partnerships of a Monastic Nath Temple in Contemporary Rajasthan,” in The Power of Nath Yogis: Yogic Charisma, Political Influence and Social Authority, edited by Daniela Bevilacqua and Eloisa Stuparich (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022), 249-279.

Journal Articles

“Hindu Bakaph? Charitable Development and Trust Sovereignty in ‘Neoliberal’ India,” The Muslim World, Special Issue: “Muslim Endowments in Asia: Waqf, Charity and Circulations,” Vol. 18 (Oct. 2018): 652-675.

“Ritual and Recognition in India,” Journal of Ritual Studies, Vol. 30, No. 2 (2016): 1-12.

Dr Thomas Newbold

Andrew W Mellon Fellow in the Humanities

Thomas Newbold is a historian of colonial and post-colonial Bengal and Bangladesh. From the 6^th of September 2026 he will be Andrew W Mellon Fellow in the Humanities at the Asian University for Women at Chittagong. He was previously assistant professor at BRAC University and Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago.

Research interests: History of Bengal

Book Chapters

“Rammohun’s ‘Moral Revolution’: Neo-Prescriptivism and Normative Controversy in Early Nineteenth Century Kolkata” in Chakrabarty, Dipesh, Chaudhuri, Rosinka & Sarkar, Tanika (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Rammohun Roy, New Delhi: Cambridge University Press. 2026.

“The Rise and Fall of College Square Common Sense” in Chakrabarty, Upal, Majumdar, Rochona & Sarbadhikary, Sukanya (eds.) The Hindu/Presidency College: a global history, New Delhi: Cambridge University Press. 2026.

Journal Articles

“Turning to Taste: Towards a History of Literary Judgments in Bengal” in Journal of Bangladesh Studies, Vol. 26 No.2 (December 2024).

“Beyond the Break with the Past: Reckonings with Literary Pakistanism in East Bengal” Economic and Political Weekly Vol. 56 Issue 44 (October 2021).

Dr Yasmine Singh

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Humanities

Dr. Yasmine Singh is an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Humanities and teaches courses on Comparative Religions in the Humanities Program. She received her B.A. from Salem College, M.A. in Religious Studies from Wake Forest University, and Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Duke University. She previously taught as an assistant professor at Missouri State University and has also taught as teaching assistant professor at North Carolina State University. She is an ethnographer of religions with a research focus on goddess worship, gender and sexuality, and class and caste dynamics in South Asia.

Teaching

GE-ETHR1010 Introduction to Ethical Reasoning

GE-HIST1010/HUM2110/HUM3110 Ancient Indian History

GE-CREL1001-4 Comparative Religion

Research interests
Religions of South Asia

Contemporary Hinduism

Material and Visual Cultures of South Asia

Ethnography of Religion

Women and Gender

Caste and Class Studies

Dr Xiaoxi Zhang

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Humanities

Xiaoxi Zhang is an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Humanities. She received her MA in Lusophone and Hispanic Studies from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in 2022 together with a Graduate Certificate in African Studies and another Graduate Certificate in World Performance Studies, after which she held appointments at the English Department at Ball State University and the program in Comparative Humanities at Habib University.

Her research centrally explores means to facilitate postcolonial mutual recognition and ways to pursue meaningful comparative studies across contexts in the Global South towards better decolonial practices. Her dissertation, titled “Decentering Modern Languages: The Case of Chinese, Portuguese, and Swahili” puts the history of the modernization of the languages of Chinese, Portuguese and Swahili under comparative lens through the perspectives of the relevant language users and activists against the backdrop of the development of global modernity, colonialism and imperialism, by drawing from insights embedded in diverse narratives amidst miscellaneous sources of historical, literary, and cultural productions and by reading and imagining dialogically across disciplinary, national, and area-studies based divisions. Her current research seeks to propose a constructive framework towards the direct translation between non-modern-Western languages that are not immediately linguistically or historically related to one another, in a way that can also facilitate proper decolonial recognition and promotion of the languages in question. She has presented at many academic conferences and is working on a dissertation-based book manuscript and a few other journal articles.

Aside from her research projects, she also maintains active interests in a variety of subject matters and is passionate as a teacher, and has designed and taught contextually-relevant transdisciplinary courses that crisscrosses the boundaries of literature, philosophy, music, history, and language, in the different academic institutions that she worked at previously.

Teaching

LIT 104 – What is World Literature?

HUM 101 – Critical Inquiry and the Humanities: Love and Desire

HUM 201 – Conceptual Genealogies: Master-Slave Dialectics

LIT/MUS 319 – Vibrate! Music, Wor(I)d and Transdisciplinary Activism

PHIL/LAN 312 – Against the Medium: Critical Studies of Language and Translation

Research Interests

Critical Translation Studies

Comparative Literature and World Literatures

Theories of Postcolonialism and Decolonization

Questions of Ethnicity and Indigeneity in Literary Studies

Comparative Studies of Literary and Cultural Productions from the Global South

Critical Studies of Race, Gender, and Sexuality

Vernacular and Pre-modern Literary Forms

Global Histories of Modern Languages

Institutional History of Modern Disciplines

Film, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Digital Humanities

Ongoing Research Project:

“Language Activism and ‘South-South’ Solidarity: A Constructive Framework through Translation and Storytelling”

Ashfeen Aribea

Senior Instructor of Science and Assistant Director, Pathways and Foundation

MA, Molecular Biology

Md Noman Udin

Assistant Director of Mathematics (Pathways and Foundation)

MA, Mathematics

Noman was a member of the mathematics Faculty at Asian University for Women (AUW) for over seven years (From 2010 July to 2017 December). During this time, he worked to develop Mathematics Curriculum and implementing several large scale projects at AUW. In 2018 he went to University Technology Malaysia, Malaysia, for higher study in Mathematics. In 2021 he came back to AUW and join as an instructor of Precalculus in the Access Academy (AA). His responsibilities include lecturing, develop clear learning objectives and prepare comprehensive syllabi.

He received MS degree specialized in Mathematical Science from the university Technology Malaysia, Malaysia. He received a special Award by Faculty of Science University Technology Malaysia 2021. He also obtained Bsc (Hons) in Applied Mathematics from the university of Chittagong.

Research

Cosmology, Partial differential Equations (PDE)

Rayhana Fatema

Assistant Director of English (Pathways and Foundation) & Senior Instructor of English, Pathways and Foundation

Rayhana Fatema Chowdhury is an Instructor of English Language in Pre-Undergraduate Program. Currently, she is pursuing her PhD at University of Malaya in Educational Psychology and Counseling. She has obtained two Masters Degrees in ELT and English Literature. Before joining AUW in 2023, she had been teaching English language and literature at Port City International University as an Assistant Professor. In her long teaching career since 2013, she has supervised almost hundred thesis papers. She had also served as the Chairman of the Department of English at PCIU where she was a Syndicate Member.

Teaching

English Reading and Writing

English Listening and Speaking

Research

Psycholinguistics

Neuro-linguistics

Special Education

Educational Psychology and Counseling

Publications

Journal Articles

International Journal (03)

1. REASONS OF RETICENCE IN SPEAKING ENGLISH AMONG THE FRESHMEN IN PORT

CITY INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY; CHITTAGONG, BANGLADESH: A CASE STUDY. ELK

ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES. ISSN 2394-9392; DOI:

10.16962/EAPJSS/issn.2394-9392/2014; Volume 2 Issue 3 (2016). (Solo Author). JD Impact

Factor : 2014: 1.112

2. THE FACTORS THAT AFFECT LEARNER AUTONOMY IN LEARNING ENGLISH AS A

FOREIGN LANGUAGE (EFL) AT TERTIARY LEVEL IN BANGLADESH. ELK ASIA PACIFIC

JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES. ISSN 2394-9392; DOI: 10.16962/EAPJMRM/issn. 2349-

2317/2015; Volume 2 Issue 4 (2016). (Co-Author). JD Impact Factor : 2014: 1.112

3. FEEDBACK PRACTICES IN THE TERTIARY LEVEL EFL WRITING CLASSROOM IN

BANGLADESH, “Australasian Journal of Business, Social Science and Information

Technology” ISSN 2206-4451 Volume 4 Issue 4 (2018).

National Journal (02)

1. Integrating Language and Literature in Teaching English: A Critical Study. “Port City International

University Journal” Volume – 1, Issue – 1, 2014, ISSN: 2311-3146 (Solo Author).

2. Eye-Heart: A Mortal War or Oneness in Love in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 46 and 47, “Port City

International University Journal” Volume – 2, Issue – 2, 2015, ISSN: 2311-3146 (Solo Author).

Akhtari Zameel

Assistant Director of Computer Science (Pathways and Foundation) & Junior Instructor of Computer Science, Pathways and Foundation

Akhtari Zameel is serving as a Fellow in Computer Science at Asian University for Women. She received her B.Sc. (Eng.) in Computer Science and Engineering from the International Islamic University Chittagong and her M.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from the Karadeniz Technical University, Turkey. Currently, she is attending a doctoral degree at Sakarya University, Turkey. She is the author of several articles in journals and conferences. She has received recognition for her excellent academic performance, awarded by TUBITAK and Erasmus + scholarship program, Turkish Gov. full funded scholarship for both her masters and Ph.D. She is extremely motivated to have a beneficial influence in the fields of teaching, research, and education.  She is constantly driven by a desire to increase the interests of students in learning and study.

Teaching

Computer Fundamental

Research interests

• Internet of Things (IoT),
• Wireless Communication,
• Blockchain,
• Machine Learning,
• Deep Learning.

Project involvements

• Adjustable Intelligent Antenna Based Next Generation Internet of Things (IoT).
  Sponsored by: The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)

Arif Chowdhury

Lecturer

MA, ELT
(General Studies, ACCESS)

I have been teaching at AUW in General Studies Program for developing four language skills for more than 5 months and I am currently teaching academic Reading and Writing at AUW’s Pre-UG (Access) program.

Previously, I have taught various ESL, EFL and Academic English, and departmental courses at Huddersfield University, British Council recognized English language centers, UK and University of Creative Technology Chittagong.

My academic qualifications include a master’s degree from London Metropolitan University in Int’l ELT and Applied Language Studies; a Trinity CertTESOL; a Teaching English for Academic Purposes (TEAP) certificate from London School of Economics (LSE); and more than 10 years of experience as an educator.

Sharmin Rahmatullah

Senior Instructor

Sharmin Rahmatullah has been working at AUW since 2016. She has been teaching English Reading and Writing in the Pre-Access, Access, and the current Pre-UG program. Sharmin also teaches Writing in the UG as an adjunct faculty. Before taking up the position of Assistant Director of Student Success, Sharmin was the English Coordinator, followed by the Promotion Coordinator of the Pre UG. Besides teaching, Sharmin is involved in various Teacher Training sessions and Continuous Professional Development sessions at the Pre UG Level.

Prior to working at AUW, Sharmin taught at BRAC University and The British Council as an English Lecturer and IELTS Teacher. She also has experience in teaching IELTS in the London English Academy, in Malaysia.

With over 10 years of teaching experience and a CELTA qualification, Sharmin has a BA in English and an MA in ELT.

Sharmin Siddiqui

Senior Instructor

Sharmin Siddiqui started as a senior instructor at the Asian University for Women, Chittagong, in September 2023. She began her career in January 2007 as a teaching assistant at Southeast University Bangladesh. After that, she joined Stamford University Bangladesh as a lecturer in English in February of the same year. She was employed as an English lecturer at King Khalid University in Abha, Saudi Arabia, in 2009.  From September 2009 to August 2023, she worked at King Khalid University.

Sharmin Siddiqui completed her BA (Hons) in English and MA in Applied Linguistics and ELT from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Teaching

Reading across the Disciplines 6

Reading across the Disciplines 5

Language and Composition 5

Research interests

Sociolinguistics, ELT, Psycholinguistics, Second Language Acquisition

Journal Articles

• Faruquzzaman, A., Almosa, A., Siddiqui, S., Chowdhury, G., Ahamed, M. M., Mishu, A., Ahmed, J., and Sultana, S. (2023). On Linguistic Reviews of Arabic and Bangla: A Comprehensive Study. Theory and Practice of Language Studies. Vol. 13, No. 9, 2375-2383. DOI://https://doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1309.25

• Siddiqui, S., Ahamed, M. M., Chowdhury, G., & Mishu, A. (In Press). Teaching Writing to EFL Learners: Issues and Concerns. Journal of Language Teaching and Research. Journal of Language Teaching Research.
• Ahamed, M.M. & Siddiqui, S. (2021). From the Normal to the New Normal: Reflecting Metamorphosis in Pedagogies. Arab World English Journal (AWEJ) Special Issue on CALL (7). 419-434. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.24093/awej/call7.29
• Siddiqui, S. and Ahamed, M. (2020). Teachers’ Roles Beyond and Within the Context: An Ever-Changing Concept. Arab World English Journal, 11(1), 282-296. DOI:https://dx.doi.org/10.24093/awej/vol11no1.21

Presentations

• “Learning Goals and Teachers’ Roles,” Language Research Center, King Khalid University, KSA, April 2019.
• “Creating Future Leaders by Teachers as Core Professionals,” Language Research Center, King Khalid University, KSA, February 2020.
• “From Normal to New Normal: Rethinking the Methodologies,” Language Research Center, King Khalid University, KSA, January 2021.
• “Enhancing Communicative Competence in English: Some Needs to be Addressed,” Language Research Center, King Khalid University, KSA, March 2022.

Tahmina Akter Mili

Senior Instructor

Tahmina Akter Mili is an enthusiastic and passionate teacher. Her extensive experience in the field of education has led her to the firm belief that education can be a tool for women’s empowerment. Ms. Mili holds a Master of Education in TESOL from the University of the West of Scotland. She has also earned her Master of Arts in English Language and Literature from Eden Mahila College under the National University of Bangladesh and a Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature from Eden Mahila College under the National University of Bangladesh. Previously, she taught English in Abdul Kadir Molla International School as well as summer school programs in St. Andrews Language College and MLI International. She is interested in working with bilingual and multilingual English Language speakers.

Sabrina Naoshin

Senior Instructor

Sabrina Naoshin is a highly motivated and dedicated individual who loves to promote positive thinking in her personal and professional life. She joined AUW in 2018 with around five years of prior teaching experience. As a big fan of technology, Sabrina utilizes related technology in her teaching approaches. She believes that student-centered and interactive classroom approaches increase students’ and teachers’ productivity and motivation at the same time. Sabrina devotes a significant portion of her time to personal and professional development. As a part of her professional development process, she is pursuing a Master of Education in Advanced Teaching (M.Ed.) with a concentration in STEM fields at the University of the People, California. Sabrina has completed her MBA from Premier University, Chattogram, Bangladesh. Working with students from different nationalities, cultures, and educational backgrounds helped her become a person with patience, dedication, and enthusiasm. Her interests include reading, spending time with family, playing Sudoku, and writing.

Homayra Binta Hafiz Silvee

Senior Instructor

Ms. Silvee is teaching at AUW for last 2 years. Before that she worked with UNICEF and Ministry of Information and various renowned English Medium schools. She completed her Masters in Literature in English. She is CELTA certified too.

She worked on creating 3 consecutive courses namely “Presentation Skills”, “Public Speaking and Debate” and “Ethics and Critical Thinking”.

Teaching

“Presentation Skills” and “Ethics and Critical Thinking”.

Adib Ahmed Anik

Instructor

Adib Ahmed Anik is an Instructor at Asian University for Women, where he teaches Foundation and General Education courses in the Computer Science program, including programming, web development, and data analysis. He joined AUW in Fall 2025 and contributes to curriculum-aligned technical training and student career preparation initiatives. Previously, he served as a Teaching Assistant at Marquette University and worked for seven years as a Software Engineer in Bangladesh and the United States. He holds a master’s degree in Data Science from Marquette University and has published in peer-reviewed journals and IEEE conferences.

Teaching

FND-CSCI1002

GE-CSC1001

Research interests

Reinforcement Learning

Large Language Models

Human Computer Interaction

Israt Happy

Instructor

MA, Public Health
(Pathways)

Israt has always been passionate about teaching and this is her 4^th year at AUW as a faculty. She received her bachelor’s degree in Public Health from Asian University for Women in 2015 and also earned her Master’s degree in Public Health from American International University Bangladesh in 2017. Currently, she is responsible for teaching English Language course to Pre Access-Academy (PAA) students.  Previously, she educated PAA students for two years and taught Leadership Seminar course to Access Academy students for one year. Israt believes that instilling confidence into students enables them to be higher achievers in their lives. Hence, her lessons are focused on breeding confidence, allowing students to speak, make mistakes and learn at their own pace.

Md Ariful Hasan

Instructor

Md Ariful Hasan is an Instructor of English Language in Pre-Undergraduate Program. Currently, he is pursuing his MEd in ELT at Kathmandu University, Nepal. He has done another Master’s Degree in English from Jagannath University, Bangladesh. He passed his CELTA course in 2018. Before joining AUW in 2024, he had been teaching English language and literature at University of Creative Technology Chittagong as a Lecturer & Coordinator. In his long teaching career since 2010, he had taught in many renowned schools and colleges of Bangladesh.

Teaching

English Writing (L&C)

English Reading and Writing

Presentation Skills

Research interests

Education

Syllabus Design, Testing & Evaluation

ESL/EFL

Tanzim M Ahmed

Junior Instructor

Tanzim joined Asian University for Women in September 2024 as a Junior Instructor in Mathematics in the Pre-UG Department. He previously taught Fundamentals of Quantitative Reasoning and Student Development Seminars courses in Access Academy at East Delta University, Chattogram, Bangladesh. He is pursuing a Master of Science in Computational Mathematics from Premier University, Chattogram, Bangladesh, and he graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Engineering from East Delta University. He ranked 5th at the Final Round of the 12th iteration of the National Undergraduate Mathematics Olympiad (NUMO) held under Bangladesh Mathematical Society. He was also the champion of the Intra-University Engineering Olympiad (2021) organized by East Delta University.

Teaching

Pre-Calculus (MATH 400)

Research interests:

Natural Language Processing, Computational Drug Discovery, Computer Vision

Jannatul Akmam

Instructor

ACCESS and Pathways

MA, English

Jannatul Akmam did BA and MA in English from Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. During her career of teaching for more than 9 years, she taught at higher secondary and tertiary levels of different institutions including teaching as an Adjunct Faculty of Core at Asian University for Women. She was awarded Fulbright Teaching Excellence and Achievement (TEA) Fellowship in Spring 2022 (Gender Cohort) and received professional development training at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Massachusetts, USA. She has joined AUW in Fall 2022 as a Junior Instructor of English Language; and teaches ESL and Presentation Skills.

Research Interest: Education and Leadership of Muslim Women, Gender Studies, Post-colonial Studies, Disability Studies and Cultural Studies.

Research Works:

Gender Expectations and Balancing Identities: Education about Gender in High Schools in Bangladesh. (Presented online) Twenty-ninth International Conference on Learning at Universitat de Valencia – Facultat de Magisteri, Valencia, Spain, 13-15 July, 2022.

Eastern Women’s Entrepreneurship: Liberating the Enslaved Mind beyond the Patriarchal Gaze. Eastern Perspectives on Women’s Roles and Advancement in Business edited by Ela Burcu Uçel, by IGI Global, Hershey, PA, USA, EISBN13: 9781799887447 (Chapter 7, Page 139-154), February, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8742-3.ch007.

Islamic Schools in France: A Tool for Change towards Inclusiveness. Virtual Conference of New England Educational Assessment Network Fall Forum 2021, 5 November 2021.

Living Parallel-ly in Real and Virtual: Internet as an Extension of Self. (Co-authored with Nafisa Huq) Defining Identity and the Changing Scope of Culture in the Digital Age edited by Alison Novak and Imaani Jamillah El-Burki, by IGI Global, Hershey PA, USA, ISBN 9781522502128 (Chapter 14, Page 230-239), May, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0212-8.ch014

Women in War-Wounded or Wonderful? Relativity in Revelation (In the Light of Nasiruddin Yusuf’s “Guerilla” and Mrityunjay Devvrat’s “Children of War”). (Co-authored with Nafisa Huq and Prakash Sarkar) International Conference “Diasporas and Diversities: Teaching English in a Changing World”, Department of English, Independent University Bangladesh, 5-7 November 2015.

Partition across the Border: A Study of the novels The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh and Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai. Trends in Indian English Novels edited by Nagraj G. Holeyannavar, Manglam Publisher, India, ISBN 9789382983231 (Page no. 222), 21 October, 2014.

Dream Identity beyond the Patriarchal Gaze: Liberating the Enslaved Mind. 1st International Conference on Social Science and Humanities August 23-25, 2014, Center for Social Science Research, School of Liberal Arts and Humanities, Independent University of Bangladesh.

New Police on the Block: Reading Contemporary Advertisement as Panopticon. Dissertation, Master of Arts Program, 2012. (Publication-in-progress)

Ngugi’s Petals of Blood: A Critical Analysis from Fanon’s Concept of Violence. Short Research Paper, Undergraduate Program, 2011. (Publication-in-progress)

Afrida Oishee

Instructor

MA, Disaster Management
(ACCESS)

Education

Nargis Sultana

Instructor

Highest Degree – MELT

Ibtida Tahera Aziz

Junior Instructor

Ibtida Tahera Aziz is serving at AUW since January, 2024. Previously she worked as a faculty of Mathematics in Military Institute of Science and Technology,  Bangladesh. She has obtain her BS and MS degree in Pure Mathematics from University of Dhaka. In 2022, she has also received A. F. Mujibur Rahman Gold Medal for her excellence in Mathematics.

Teaching

Ibtida teaches the course Precalculus to level 4 and level 6 students in AUW.

She has the experience of teaching university level mathematics courses e.g. Complex Analysis, Laplace and Fourier Transform, Vector Analysis throughout her teaching career.

Project involvements

APPLICATION AND SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS IN TRANSPORTATION PROBLEMS  FOR REAL LIFE DATA  |University of Dhaka

Supervised by:   Dr. Mohammad Babul Hasan,  Professor, Department of Mathematics  University of Dhaka.

Grants Obtained

NST Fellowship (2019) for Master’s thesis.

Sensitivity Analysis of Transportation Problems: Monitoring Changes in Market Equilibrium Implementing Optimization Methods and Business Software, MIST Journal of Science and Humanities, Vol 1, Nov 2022, pp. 6-13.

Benjamin C. Jones

Junior Instructor

Equipped with a Bachelor’s Degree in History and Southeast Asian Studies, with a minor in Chinese Professional Communication, Benjamin C. Jones has taught English to students of all age levels and abilities. As a Peace Corps Volunteer at the Kratie Provincial Teacher Training College he taught English and English Teaching Methodology to trainees, inspiring Cambodia’s next generation of teachers. His appointment as a labor investigator for the US federal government granted him a unique insight into adversarial collaboration, project tracking, and research application. Having recently been bestowed the honor of joining AUW’s dedicated faculty, he is determined to apply his expertise teaching English to the bright students in the Pre-Undergraduate program.

In his free time, he enjoys reading books about history and anthropology, connecting with friends, and brushing up on his Vietnamese, Mandarin, and Khmer. With time he hopes to add Bangla to his repertoire.

Teaching

English 101

Research Interests

1. Cold War History
2. Zomia Studies
3. Decolonization
4. Political Philosophy

Bibi Sara Karimullah

Junior Instructor

Sara Karim is an educator, space researcher, and space enthusiast dedicated to bridging the gap between space and technology.

She completed her Master’s in Space Systems Engineering from Aviation and Aerospace University Bangladesh, proudly becoming the first woman in Bangladesh to graduate in this field, following a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from International Islamic University of Chittagong. She completed an internship as a Software Developer at the eSRD Lab, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), where she worked under a research grant from the ICT Division, Government of Bangladesh.

Sara began her academic career as an Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at International Islamic University of Chittagong. She later served as a Senior Fellow Faculty in the Department of Computer Science at the Asian University for Women. She currently works as a Junior Instructor in the Department of Computer Science at the Asian University for Women, where she continues to teach, mentor, and inspire students while pursuing interdisciplinary research.

At present, she is working on the development of a verified cFS-based safety gateway for ICAROUS (a safety-assurance software framework developed at NASA Ames Research Center) integration, focusing on autonomous decision-making systems to support safer and more reliable human and cis-lunar spaceflight operations.

Beyond academia, Sara has extensive international leadership and outreach experience including as an International Navigator and Mentor for the NASA Space Apps Challenge,  Judge at Conrad Challenge 2025 – Space Center Houston,  Mission Expert at the Space Exploration Olympiad, Education Mentor at Hack for Earth, 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference(COP27), Egypt, Session Facilitator at WomenTech Global Conference 2020 and many more, actively contributing to global STEM education and youth innovation.

Teaching

Computer Fundamentals

Computational Thinking and Programming

Research

To date, she has submitted over 21 research papers to prestigious international conferences and has authored and contributed to multiple book chapters. Notably, her research on real-time solar wind analysis was accepted at the IEEE SMC-IT/SCC 2024 Conference, which led to an invitation to NASA Ames Research Center, recognizing the impact of her work in space weather and intelligent systems.

Check out Sara’s Publication here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=BBh7dRQAAAAJ

Hasan Mahfuj

Junior Instructor

MA ELT

CELTA

ESL and Foundation

Hasan Mahfuj joined AUW as an instructor of English as a Second Language in August 2022. He has set foot at AUW with an experience of 16 years of teaching English in IGCSE and ESL areas.

Hasan’s academic qualifications include an MA in ELT; a BA in English Language & Literature; and a CELTA.

Nusrat Tahsin

Junior Instructor

MA, ELT
(General Studies)

Nusrat Tahsin joined Asian University for Women (AUW) as a Junior Instructor for Pathways for Promise Program in August, 2022. She has been in teaching career since 2014. Before Joining AUW she was a secondary level English teacher who had been teaching English Language in O level for almost eight years. She completed the Cambridge International Examinations Professional Development course for O level Examination. Nusrat is an US Department of State Exchange Alumni who received training as an international educator in Fulbright Teaching Excellence and Achievement (TEA) Program in Montana State University, USA. As a part of TEA program, she also served as a guest teacher in Chief Joseph Middle School at Bozeman, Montana, USA. She is also involved in charitable Access program funded by US Department of State for teaching underprivileged students. Besides teaching she served as an Academic coordinator in English Access Microscholarship Program, Chattogram for one and half year. Her aim is to finding potential and empowering students from disadvantage class and Pathways program in AUW is the perfect area to fulfill her goal.

Academic Qualification

MA in English Language and Literature. International Islamic University Chittagong

B.A. (Hons) in English Language and Literature. International Islamic University Chittagong

Umma Salma

Junior Instructor

Ms. Salma is a TESOL graduate from North South University, Dhaka and joined Asian University for Women as a Junior Instructor.

Teaching

Currently teaching Presentation Skill for the level 3 students along with 2 courses on ESL for the level 2.

Research

Salma is deeply interested in the Critical Pedagogical field that includes mainstreaming morality and ethics education at every level. Also, diasporic discourse, cultural imperialism, ethnocentrism etc. are some of the areas that she is mostly invested in.

Mehzabeen Zaman

Junior Instructor

BS, Environmental Science
(General Studies, Pathways)

Mehzabeen joined as Junior Instructor for pathways in January 2022, a long-held aspiration of her started when pathways began its journey back in 2016. Besides teaching English curricular she is determined to be a great mentor for her students building confidence in their personal and professional lives. She hopes for her students to be higher achievers in their lives and serve as a strong woman in their community. Previously she served as a residential life coordinator at AUW where she acted as mentor, advisor and trusted friend to the residential students.

Majored in Environmental Science and minored in Development Studies from Asian University for Women.

Ruheya Khourshed

Junior Instructor

With a keen eye for detail and a natural aptitude for education, I am thrilled to join Asian University for Women (AUW) as a Junior Instructor of Mathematics for the Pre-Undergraduate Program. Throughout my four years of one-on-one tutoring experience with multiple students spanning from high school to university, I have honed my skills in creating a stimulating and supportive learning environment. With a BA in Economics and minors in Mathematics and Finance from AUW, I have a strong academic background that I am eager to apply to my role as an instructor. In addition, my experience as a Creative Director at Lussotica, a startup fashion label, and as HR Member at Youth’s Voice Organization, respectively, has given me valuable leadership and management skills. I am excited to contribute to the university’s mission of building a more progressive society through education and am delighted to be part of the esteemed faculty at AUW.

Teaching

Mathematics for the Pre-Undergraduate Program

Tasnuva Rahman

Junior Instructor

Tasnuva Rahman joined AUW in January 2024. She has completed her BA in English Literature from Chittagong Independent University. Later, she pursued her Master’s in English, majoring in TESOL at East Delta University.

From February 2022, she continued working at The English Academy as an EFL Instructor for a year. Later, Tasnuva worked for the Speakers’ Council as an EFL Instructor and maintained a full-time position as an English Teacher at Al-Hidaayah International School.

Teaching

English Reading and Writing

English Listening and Speaking

Research interests

Tasnuva Rahman is interested in teaching psychology, including adult students’ attitudes toward learning a foreign language. She focuses on making use of literature and arts as an effective method of teaching a language, which includes value added participation. Tasnuva believes inspiration always comes from the real world. From this vision she carries interest in fictional characters’ psychological perspectives and connecting them with nonfictional behaviors. Her preferred areas of exploration are human psychology, perspective, and reasoning.

Khadija Sultana

Junior Instructor

With 10 years of formal teaching experience and keen interest in the field of education from a very young age, Khadija has joined AUW as a Senior Fellow of English in the Pre-UG Program in Spring ‘24. Prior to this, she has completed her BA in English and Humanities with a minor in Sustainable Development from University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh followed by MA in Applied Linguistics and TESOL from the same institution. Alongside education, she loves to conduct social activities, especially for women. Notably, she has organized a workshop titled ‘Being Period Positive’ in a street children’s home, and another titled ‘Good Touch, Bad Touch’ in a school alongside multiple other events. The reason Khadija chose AUW to make a contribution through her knowledge is also because of the same cause, she aims to work for the empowerment of women.

Teaching

English Reading & Writing

Presentation Skills

Research Interests

Applied Linguistics

Discourse Analysis

Social cause including basic human rights

Fariha Anjum

Junior Instructor

Fariha Anjum received B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering from the International Islamic University Chittagong, Bangladesh in 2022. She is serving as a Junior Instructor in Computer Science at Asian University for Women since January 2023.  During her final year, she has worked as a Health Data Analytics Intern in the eSystems Research and Development Lab of BUET for a period of three months.

Teaching

Information Technology, General Studies

Computer Literacy, Pre-UG

Research interests:

Data Science, Natural Language Processing, Image Processing, Health Data Analytics, Human Activity Recognition.

Peer-Reviewed International Conferences:

1. Anjum, S. Alam, E. H. Bahadur, A. K. M. Masum, and M. Z. Rahman, “Deep Learning for Depression Symptomatic Activity Recognition,” in 2022 International Conference on Innovations in Science, Engineering and Technology (ICISET), 2022, pp. 510-515: IEEE.

Journal Articles

“Recognition Exhibiting Symptoms Activity of Depression Employing Deep Learning” (under review by Hindawi)

On-Going Research

“Smartphone Sensors Based Heart-Rate Prediction and Pattern Recognition of Activity Intensity for Early Staging of Depression”

Publication Records Summary:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CYGJJ8oAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra

Syeda Reiyan Azim

Junior Instructor

Mathematics (Pathways)

BA, Economics, Asian University for Women

Naima Halim Tushi

Junior Instructor

MA, Developmental Studies
(General Studies, Pathways)

Naima started teaching the Pre-UG Program at the Asian University for Women in January 2022 to help students be ready for the institution’s undergraduate degree programs. In addition to teaching Naima encourages females to become future leaders. Naima completed her undergraduate studies from Asian University for Women (AUW) with PPE (Politics, Philosophy & Economics) major and Development Studies minor on 2018. After that, she pursued her graduate studies at University of Malaya (UM) in Malaysia and graduated from the Department of Development Studies. Naima’s research interests lie on women and gender issues which have been published in renowned international journals. She has received a best paper award on an international conference.

Senior Thesis: Status of E-Learning at University Level in Bangladesh: Opportunities & Limitations

Journal Articles:

Shamsi, T., & Tushi, N. H. (2019). Empowering Rohingya Women For A Sustainable Refugee Camp. International Journal of Legal Developments and Allied Issues, 5(4).

Tushi, N. H., & Shamsi, T. (2020). Dowry Practices in Bangladesh and India. Journal of Legal Studies and Research, 6 (2).

Conference Acceptances:

Tushi, N. H., & Shamsi, T. (2020). International Social Sciences Research Colloquium. India

Jannatul Bakya

Junior Instructor

I will be working as a junior instructor of mathematics in the pre-undergraduate program. I am required to teach a maximum of 15 credit-hours per trimester. On August 28, 2022, I started teaching at AUW. I had been working as a teaching assistant for three courses at my academic level.

Education:

B.Sc. Bioinformatics and Public Health, Asian University for Women, Chittagong, Bangladesh

Tasnuva Khan Tanisha

Junior Instructor

Tasnuva Khan Tanisha has joined Asian University for Women (AUW) as a Junior Instructor of English in January, 2023. She will be teaching Level 1 ESL and Level 3 Reading Across the Discipline in Pre-Undergraduate Programs. Before joining AUW, she worked at American School Chittagong for 4 months.

Tasnuva Khan Tanisha has received her Bachelor in Arts in English Language and Literature from Premier University, Chittagong in the year 2021. Currently, she is pursuing her Master of Arts in English Language Teaching (ELT) from Premier University.

Teaching

Level-1 (Reading and Writing)

Level-1 (Listening and Speaking)

Level-3 (Reading Across the Discipline)

Research interests:

• Learning Disability
• Feminism in Ancient Literature

Isthina Rafique Rini

Junior Instructor

M.A in English from East Delta University

B.A (Hons.) in English from East Delta University

ACCESS and Pathways

Afifa Afrin Shifa

Junior Instructor

Ms. Afifa Afrin is a Senior Fellow of the English Language in Pre-Undergraduate Program. She had worked in three different universities. Before joining AUW in 2024, she had been teaching English language and literature at University of Science and Technology Chittagong as a Lecturer. She completed her B.A. (hons.)  in English Language and Literature from premier university Chittagong and M.A. in TESOL from North South University, Dhaka. She had received gold medals from both of the universities for her excellent result. Moreover, She completed the French Course (till B1) from  Alliance Française de Dhaka. She has keen interest in research and has some publications in the pipeline.

Teaching

English Listening and Speaking (Level-1)

English Reading and Writing (Level-1)

Research interests

Her research interests are particularly based on sociolinguistics, comparative linguistics, applied linguistics and TESOL in Bangladesh.

Ornika Jaman Akhai

Junior Instructor

Ornika joined AUW back in August 2022 as an adjunct math faculty and from summer 2023 semester, she is working as a fellow in the Pre-UG program. She is required to teach a maximum of 15 credit hours per trimester. Along with teaching mathematics, she is committed to mentoring her students and helping them become more confident in both their personal and professional lives.

Ornika started her journey with AUW as a formal student. She graduated from AUW in 2022 with a major in Economics and a minor in Development Studies. Prior to joining AUW as a faculty member, she worked as a Teaching Assistant at her academic level for two different courses.

Teaching

Mathematics in Pre-UG

Research

Research interests
Economics and Developments of Bangladesh, Women’s education

Project involvements

Worked with BRAC (WASH) and Breaking The Silence project, and also worked with UNDP to “Stop cyberbullying and fake news spreading”

Grants Obtained

Received $5000 from UNDP after wining the competition

Shaneeza Binte Alam

Junior Instructor

Shaneeza Binte Alam is currently serving as a Senior Fellow of Mathematics for the Pre-UG program. She joined Asian University for Women as an adjunct instructor in Fall 2023. She earned a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from AUW in 2014, followed by a Master’s in Business Administration with a major in Finance from East Delta University in 2016. In 2018, she embarked on her entrepreneurial journey by launching Jardin de Fleurs, a home décor business that allows her to express her creativity while working with clients with unique preferences and requirements

She attended a training program titled “Changing Perception and Building Classroom Communities,” in 2017, which deepened her passion for education. Being part of the academic journey of enthusiastic students at AUW, helping them build confidence and fostering a love for learning is deeply rewarding for her.

Teaching

Quantitative Reasoning, Level 1 and 2

Research interests

Her primary research interest focuses on the economic dependency of women on male family members, regardless of their own educational backgrounds. She is particularly interested in understanding this dynamic and exploring the social, cultural or religious factors that shape the mindset of women in this regard.

Fahim Faysal

Junior Instructor

Fahim Faysal is serving as a Junior Instructor of Computer Science at Asian University for Women (AUW), where he joined in August 2025 as an Adjunct Senior Fellow. He has conducted a workshop titled “Beyond the Sky: Where Space Meets Technology.” He received his BSc and MSc degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB), where he was awarded Gold Medal for outstanding academic performance. He served as an Instructor at AIUB and worked as Web Consultant at a Diploma Institute in Dinajpur. His research interests include Software Engineering, Web Accessibility, AI, Machine Learning, and Medical Image Processing.

Teaching

• Computer Fundamentals
• Computer Thinking and Programming
• Introduction to Computing and Programming

Research interests: Software Engineering, Web Accessibility, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Medical Image Data Processing.

Project involvements: Completed a full-scale project and developed a complete website for a student consultancy firm, Abroad Portals, along with involvement in academic and technology-focused projects.

Grants Obtained: Not applicable / No external research grants obtained to date.

Journal Articles

DeepBERT-XAI: a dual BERT approach with XAI for sentiment analysis of airline tweet data

Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41060-025-00967-w

Conference Papers

1. Applying Heuristic Algorithms for Solving the 0–1 Knapsack Problem: An Experimental Analysis

Link:  https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10914434

2. Enhancing Road Navigation for the Visually Impaired: A Laser-Based Night Vision Approach

Link:  https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10914405

3. A Comprehensive Evaluation of Machine Learning Techniques for Predicting Software Bugs

Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10914387

4. NoSQL Database Selection Process: An Integrated Proof of Concept and Comparison for Targeted Document Store Databases

Link:  https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10914487

5. Performance Comparison of Ensemble and Supervised Models for Software Defect Prediction

Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10914464

6. Evaluating Heuristic Approaches for Solving the 0/1 Knapsack and MMKP: A Comparative Study

Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/11022084

Md Morshed Bin Shiraj

Junior Instructor

Md. Morshed Bin Shiraj joined Asian University for Women in January 2026, after serving one trimester as an Adjunct Fellow from September 2025. Previously, he worked as a Lecturer in Mathematics at Bangladesh Army University of Engineering and Technology (BAUET), Natore (February–August 2025), and earlier as a part-time mathematics lecturer at Rajshahi Cadet College. He has over five years of experience as a Research Assistant, primarily at the University of Rajshahi, on persistent homology, temporal topology, and applied topological methods alongside his PhD studies. He earned his second Master’s degree from Hiroshima University, Japan, under the MEXT scholarship.

Teaching

FDN-MATH 1001: Precalculus

FND-MATH 1002: Fundamentals of Mathematics

Research interests
Topological Data Analysis; Anomaly Detection; Mathematical Modeling; Image Analysis

Project involvements
Jul, 2025- Now: Research Assistant of “Early Detection of Lung Diseases Using Persistent Homology” project at University of Rajshahi.

Jul, 2024 – Jun, 2025: Research Assistant of “Topology-based Local Community Detection of Some Social Media Network” project at University of Rajshahi.

Jul, 2023 – Jun, 2024: Research Assistant of “Temporal Topology: Analyzing Time Series Data through Persistent Homology” project at University of Rajshahi.

Jul, 2022 – Jun, 2023: Research Assistant of “Computation of Betti Numbers Using Čech Complex and Some Case Studies” project at University of Rajshahi.

Jul, 2021 – Jun, 2022: Research Assistant of “On the Approximation of the Bay of Bengal Domain to be Compatible for the Implementation of Finite Element Method” project at University of Rajshahi.

Grants Obtained

MEXT Scholarship to study at Hiroshima University, Japan;

NST PhD and MS Fellowships from the Ministry of Science and Technology of Bangladesh.

Abrar Taher

Junior Instructor

Abrar Taher, a Computer Studies Fellow at Asian University for Women, previously served as a Lecturer in the CSE department at Port City International University. He received his B.Sc. (Engg.) in Computer Science and Engineering from Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology (CUET), Chittagong, Bangladesh in 2023. His research centers on image processing. He published his thesis work at an International conference in Bangladesh organized by IEEE Bangladesh section. He possesses a strong affinity for acquiring and imparting knowledge in programming languages. His enthusiasm is focused on creating a beneficial influence within the realms of education, teaching, and research. He consistently demonstrates a keen dedication to assisting aspiring students in fostering a genuine interest in learning and research.

Teaching

1. Computational Thinking & Programming
2. Computer Literacy

Research interests:

1. Image Processing
2. Medical Images
3. Deep Learning
4. Regression & Classification

Adiba Humayera

Senior Fellow

Ms. Adiba is a Fellow of Science, currently teaching Integrated Science and Women’s Health
in a Pre-Undergraduate program. Her strong passion for STEM has been a driving force in
her career trajectory. Prior to becoming a Fellow, she earned a bachelor’s degree in
Bioinformatics and Biotechnology from the Asian University for Women. She aspires to
pursue advanced studies abroad, building on her expertise in her undergraduate field.

Teaching

– Integrated Science (Level 6)
– Women’s Health (Level 5/6)

Satyakam Das

Fellow

Satya is a Fellow teaching Pre-UG Mathematics, dedicated to building strong mathematical foundations through clarity, structure, and problem-solving intuition. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Mathematics from Texas Tech University. His engineering and mathematical training strongly informs his teaching philosophy, i.e., viewing mathematics not merely as a subject, but as a fundamental tool for reasoning and real-world application.

Prior to joining AUW, he gained experience as a Tutor at Learning Center TTU, and in industry roles as an Application Engineer and as a Supply Production Leader, bringing both academic and practical perspectives to the classroom.

In his teaching, he emphasizes intuition over memorization, structured thinking over shortcuts, and clear effective communication that build confidence over fear, guiding students through the critical pre-university stage with both rigor and support.

Teaching

Mathematics courses in Pathways and Foundation programs

Khadija Rashid

Teaching Fellow

Khadija Rashid is from New York City and graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Asian Studies. Her academic interests center on South Asia, Islam, law, and social change, with a particular focus on the experiences of Muslim communities and the ways cultural and religious traditions shape contemporary society.  At Cornell, Khadija conducted independent research on contemporary Muslim communities, exploring questions of identity, belonging, and social transformation across Asia. She also gained professional experience in legal and nonprofit settings, supporting initiatives related to gender equity, community outreach, legal research, and public education. Her work has included collaborating with organizations dedicated to advancing women’s rights and expanding access to resources for underserved communities.

As the daughter of immigrants, Khadija is passionate about education as a tool for empowerment and social mobility. She is particularly interested in creating opportunities for young people, fostering cross-cultural understanding, and supporting women’s leadership in diverse communities around the world.  Outside of her academic and professional pursuits, Khadija enjoys studying history, reading and writing Urdu poetry, exploring South Asian and Islamic art, traveling, and engaging with literature and cultural traditions. As a Teaching Fellow at Asian University for Women, she looks forward to learning from AUW’s international student body and contributing to a vibrant community of scholars and future leaders.

Bingqian Emily Wang

Teaching Fellow

Bingqian (Emily) Wang holds a Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College of Columbia University where she double majored in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Education Studies, minoring in Asian Diaspora and Asian American Studies. At Barnard, she was awarded the Barnard Engages grant supported by the Mellon Foundation and the Peter Juviler and Dennis Dalton Fellowship to support her work at Damayan Migrant Workers and Federation of Asian Domestic Workers United respectively, where she worked in archival, communications, and operations capacities. She also served as Social Chair for Columbia University Lion Dance and on Columbia University AAPI Interboard, where she worked to organise the Asian community on campus. She wrote her Senior Thesis on temporal and spatial alternatives to traditional education, which fuels her exploration of student-centered pedagogies. She is committed to building new possibilities for agency, power, and sovereignty in Asia.

Kelsey Moriarty

Teaching Fellow

Kelsey Moriarty is a graduate of the University of Oxford, where she read History and was a Reuben Scholar. Kelsey is taking up the fellowship at AUW following a year in London advising stock exchanges on communications. She is passionate about public service and writes often on foreign and economic policy. She also has charity experience spanning from women’s health to international development. Kelsey is an award-winning writer, with her writing featuring in national publications. Throughout her career and charitable work, she has developed a strong commitment to shaping policy and expanding opportunities for underserved communities.

Chuhan Bella Cui

Teaching Fellow

Chuhan (Bella) Cui is a 2026 graduate of Wellesley College majoring in English and Sociology. At Wellesley, she worked as an Academic Success Coach and served as an Editor and Publicity Chair for the nonfiction magazine, Counterpoint. Drawn by her interest in international education, Bella interned at Kyoto International School as an assistant teacher, where she taught English to a diverse student body and coordinated various cultural immersion field trips. In her senior year, she completed an English independent study on her favorite author, Kazuo Ishiguro, and comparatively analyzed the unique proxy human perspectives that science fiction unlocks for him.

Naomi Stephenson

Teaching Fellow

Naomi Stephenson graduated with highest honors from Brandeis University, where she majored in History, International and Global Studies, and French and Francophone Studies. She was awarded the Brandeis Class of 1955 Prize for Creative Ability, the Eugene C. Black Prize for Excellence in History, and the Lester Martin Foundation Award in Legal Studies.

At Brandeis, she worked as an Admissions Fellow, French tutor, and resident advisor, and she led one of the student theater clubs and one of the school’s dance companies, directing four Shakespeare plays and performing in nine dance shows. In 2024, she studied abroad in Paris, France, where she also worked as an English tutor and volunteered in French public high schools. She has also interned at a law firm in Bangkok, Thailand. Naomi wrote her honors thesis on the history of copyright law and theater and will begin pursuing her J.D. at Harvard Law School in fall of 2028.

Isabella Mullings Wong

Teaching Fellow

Isabella Mullings Wong graduated in 2026 with a degree in Computer Science from the University of Bath. Alongside her studies, she completed a year-long placement in technology consulting, as well as internships in AI research and software engineering. Having chaired her university’s Women in Tech Society, she is passionate about improving women’s access to opportunities in work and education.

Before joining AUW, Isabella also spent a year running English language support sessions for international students, where she enjoyed meeting students from a wide range of backgrounds. In 2023, she was recognised as a top-10 finalist in the UK Female Undergraduate of the Year Award, and she was later also awarded a Generation Google Scholarship. Outside of work, she enjoys reading, hiking and cross-stitch.

Alexandra Dingle

Teaching Fellow

Alexandra (Alex) Dingle graduated from Tufts University in 2024 with majors in International Relations and Middle Eastern Studies, along with minors in Arabic and Child Study and Human Development. Raised in New York City, she spent her summers in Greece with her mother’s family, where she worked closely with refugee youth through Project Elea at the Eleonas Refugee Camp in Athens and UNICEF’s Child Friendly Space with SolidarityNow in Thessaloniki. These experiences on the ground inspired Alex to pursue research as a Laidlaw Undergraduate Research and Leadership Scholar, culminating in a 255-page senior honors thesis.

Committed to global education and community engagement, she spent her gap year as a Global Citizen Year (Tilting Futures) Fellow, working with fourth-grade students through Teach For India in Pune, Maharashtra. She also studied abroad in Amman, Jordan, for a full academic year through Middlebury College and the School for International Training. Alex has designed and led programs for students in Jordan through Squash Dreamers with support from a Projects for Peace grant and in Somerville, Massachusetts, through The Welcome Project. She is also dedicated to mentorship and has worked with the Syrian Youth Empowerment Initiative and Tufts Civic Semester in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Most recently, Alex served for two years as an Academic Advisor at Parami University through the VIA Global Community Fellowship, supporting students primarily from Myanmar.

Fahmida Afrin

Teaching Fellow- Industry Outreach

Fahmida Afrin is a dedicated Teaching Fellow in the Master of Apparel Fashion Business Management program at the Asian University for Women (AUW). A proud alumna of AUW, she returned to the university to share her passion for the fashion business, utilizing her expertise in economics and environmental science. Fahmida brings a wealth of experience in strategic planning, finance, and marketing, having worked in various sectors before joining AUW as a staff member. She worked as an Account Officer at a top export-oriented garment manufacturer in Bangladesh, broadening her knowledge of business operations and marketing in the fashion industry.

Fahmida Afrin is a sea lover at heart, finding endless inspiration in the ocean’s vastness. Her passion for travel and painting reflects her deep connection to nature’s beauty, especially the calming rhythm of the sea.

Teaching

Master of Apparel Fashion Business Management (Industry Outreach)

Research interests

• Sustainability innovation in businesses, Sustainable fashion, technology in fashion
• Micro-plastic contamination and environmental management
• Health economics, focusing on healthcare expenditure and access

Journal Articles

Working Papers / Reports

• Sustainability innovation studies with a focus on green business practices
• Research on microplastic contamination solutions in Bangladesh
• Afrin, F. (2021). “Does Sustainability Innovation Increase a Firm’s Competitiveness?”
• Afrin, F. (2022). “Examining Urban Healthcare Expenditure and Medical Support Availability for Diverse Populations in Bangladesh,”

Antara Binth Iqbal

Teaching Fellow

Antara has a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Independent University, Bangladesh. She completed her MBA in Finance from East Delta University. Her passion for teaching took her to Germany to pursue a second masters.

She completed Master of Science in Economics & Finance from Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences with a thesis on Financial literacy in 2017. She worked on similar research during her master’s program analyzing the impact of education & income on human development.

Previously she has worked as a Development Trainee for CARE Bangladesh. She worked for people in need of alternative income sources, under the USAID project, that alleviated their living conditions through job placements.

Her career in academia started with Daffodil International University as a Teaching Apprentice Fellow, ending in a Lecturer position, in the height of the Corona pandemic. This paved her path to upgrading her online education management skills, operating LMS (learning management systems) and learning interpersonal skills especially in handling students and unconventional situations.

She believes education & literacy is the way forward and the elevator to a better life and better future for all. She is dedicated to work in the education sector to witness and contribute to making her vision a reality.

Ferowza Swapnil

Chief Teaching Fellow and Program Coordinator

Ferowza completed her bachelor’s degree in Economics with a minor in Mathematics from AUW in 2019, where her academic excellence and leadership were recognized with the Andy Matsui Award. During her time at AUW and even after graduation, she took on various roles, including serving as a Teaching Assistant in the Economics department, Senior Tutor at the AUW Writing Center, and Academic mentor to Pathway for Promise students.

After her undergraduate studies, Ferowza briefly worked as a Revenue Analyst at Marriott International in Hong Kong before pursuing her Master’s degree in Economic Policy in Global Markets at Central European University in Vienna, Austria. It was during her Master’s program that she developed a keen interest in the Economics of Education and Education Policy design and implementation.

Ferowza’s dedication to community service and potential to contribute to alumni communities earned her the prestigious Alumni Scholarship award at CEU. As an Alumni Scholarship Recipient, she actively engaged in maintaining vlogs about the university, reaching out to potential students as a UNIBUDDY, fostering community bonds, and establishing partnerships with potential organizations in the development sector for creating placement opportunities for CEU students. She was also part of the team that initiated the first policy incubator for CEU.

In her current role, Ferowza is dedicated to ensuring the overally efficient operation of the Graduate Program in Education. She facilitates communication with partner universities and AUW-SF while also overseeing AUW’s Afghan Online Learning Project, known as Roshin e Omid.

Teaching

She co-teaches courses such as “Curriculum Development” alongside Dr. Glenn Devoogd and “Introduction to Global Education Policy and Analysis” with Dr. Kathlyn Eliott at the Graduate Program in Education. Ferowza also conducts writing workshops in the program to further enhance the educational experience.

Research Interest

Her research endeavors primarily revolve around addressing unique inequality challenges. Currently, Ferowza is focused on identifying sustainable and innovative solutions to educational barriers, particularly in regions where access to education is hindered by political obstacles.

Esha Das

Teaching Fellow

Esha completed her undergraduate studies at the Asian University for Women with a major in Politics, Philosophy and Economics in the class of 2019. Following her graduation, she joined the BRAC Institute of Governance and Development as a Research Intern, where she contributed to research on dynamics of gender equity on microfinance systems and inclusive development through community engagement and analysis.

She subsequently pursued her Master’s in International Development at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. During her Master’s studies, she served as a Student Officer at the University, supporting open days and engaging with prospective students to provide insights into university life and facilities. Following her graduation, she joined the Norfolk Community Foundation as a Development Research Intern, where she engaged with stakeholders across different counties in Norfolk and generated insights to the prevalent problem of food insecurity in the UK and produced an impact report on the benefits of food hubs across Norfolk.

Outside of work, Esha enjoys reading books and webtoons and exploring their themes and lore with fellow enthusiasts.

Research Interest

Her research interests lie in educational policy, gender and educational equity, with a particular interest in understanding how education can contribute to social mobility and economic empowerment of minority communities in developing contexts.

Rubiyat Jahan Sarker

Teaching Fellow

Rubiyat has graduated from Asian University for Women with a major in Economics and a minor in Mathematics. She completed MSc. in Economics from North South University, Dhaka Bangladesh right after her graduation. Alongside this research intensive Master’s program, she attended the Fellowship program of Teach For Bangladesh in 2022. She also served as a TA in the Economics department in her undergraduate years.

Her internship at Hong Kong Stock Exchange and Clearings Limited in 2018 enhanced her experience and interest in research in policy and decision making as she worked in the Legal and Compliance Department. This experience helped her in the Fellowship program and stakeholder management to establish a sustainable library in an underprivileged school.

As part of her research interest she worked as a co-author in an article titled “ High Diversity and Transmission Dynamics of HIV-1 Non-C Subtypes in Bangladesh’ that was published in the journal of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease in 2023. She intends to work in the field of Health Economics and Education.

Rubiyat loves to travel and plans to explore as many places as possible. She loves to watch thrillers and listen to music in her free time.

Teaching

Rubiyat taught Mathematics and Bangladesh Studies to adolescent students of 7th grade

Research interests

Rubiyat is interested in the fields of Health Economics, Education and Development and actively working on them currently.

Project involvements
She previously worked with KOICA on Water Sector Partnership project and Energy and Climate Partnership project.

Journal Articles

High Diversity and Transmission Dynamics of HIV-1 Non-C Subtypes in Bangladesh

https://www.mdpi.com/2414-6366/8/9/451

Tansum Tanha

Teaching Fellow

Tanha completed her undergraduate studies at AUW with a major in Economics and a minor in Development Studies. Following her graduation, she joined BRAC Institute of Educational Development, where she explored roles as Media and Communications Officer, and Short Course Facilitator.

Subsequently, she pursued her Master’s in Economic Policy in Global Markets at Central European University in Vienna, where she honed her data analysis skills. During her time there, she also served as a Social Media Assistant at Central European University. Tanha’s research interest lies in educational policy analysis, and the economics of Early Childhood Education. Drawing from her five years of professional experience in media marketing within educational institutions, her curiosity extends to researching innovative digital media marketing strategies that promote educational equity.

Sharika Tasnim

Teaching Fellow

Sharika Tasnim earned a Master of Arts in Conflict, Security and Development from the University of Sussex. Her undergraduate studies at the Asian University for Women in Politics, Philosophy & Economics, coupled with a minor in Computer Science, provided a solid foundation for her interdisciplinary approach to problem-solving.

Sharika’s professional journey encompasses a range of roles, from serving as an Adjunct Faculty at North East University Bangladesh, where she taught the history and governance of Bangladesh, to her tenure as an International Student Ambassador at the University of Sussex, where she actively engaged with prospective students, offering valuable insights into university life. Sharika interned at Onwelo in Warsaw, Poland, where she underwent training in RPA/Intelligent Automation, demonstrating her adaptability and willingness to explore new domains. Her experience as a Project Associate for the Law and Justice Network at the Youth Policy Forum underscores her commitment to policy reform and research-driven advocacy. She contributed extended academic assistance as a teaching assistant for Composition and Critical Reasoning courses, where she had to aid and communicate with AUW’s diverse student community from different cultural and lingual backgrounds.

Sharika is a polygamist reader. When she is not working or studying, she may be found jamming to kpop music or going into the deep rabbit hole of Reddit trying to decipher the recent Marvel development.

Research interests

Her research interests include the (in)security practices by security actors in the name of national interest, alongside the knowledge of ethnic, moral and religious constructs that govern the security interests.

Conference Paper

Barua, A., T., Tasnim, S., Alom, Z., Aung, Z. & Azim, M., A. (2022, May 10). Data mining and the associated social benefits. In V. Goyal, M. Gupta, S. Mirjalili & A. Trivedi (Eds.). Proceedings of international conference of communication and artificial intelligence (pp. 623-636). Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 435. Singapore: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0976-4_52