Faculty
Faculty
AUW faculty are competitively recruited from all over the world. They hold Ph.D. qualifications from institutions across Asia, Australia, Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States. About 50% of AUW faculty are women. For more information, please contact faculty@auw.edu.bd
Deans
Dr Beena Khurana
Dean of Arts and Sciences
I consider myself a poster child for international education and espouse that a global conscience (Pico Iyer) underpins ‘the day-to-day practice of international fellowship’.
As an educator I have successfully contributed to three aspects of higher education; teaching, research and administration in various educational institutions in the US (Rutgers University, UC Berkeley, Cornell University, California Institute of Technology, California Polytechnic State University) and UK (Sussex University). I am passionate about students and focus intensely on creating rewarding and meaningful educational experiences.
Education
Ph.D. Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 1992
M.S. Psychology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 1987
M.A. Psychology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India, 1982
B.A.(Hons) Economics and Mathematics, Panjab University, Ludhiana, India, 1980
Research
I have published in journals including Nature, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, PLoS ONE, Vision Research, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, Experimental Brain Research, and Social Cognition. I have also co-edited a book titled Space and Time in Perception and Action (2010), Cambridge University Press.
Select Publications
Habibi, R. & Khurana, B. (2012). Spontaneous Gender Categorization in Masking and Priming Studies: Key for Distinguishing Jane from John Doe but Not Madonna from Sinatra. PLoS ONE 7(2): e32377. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0032377
Khurana, B. & Nijhawan, R. (2010). Space and time: The fabric of thought and reality. In Romi Nijhawan and Beena Khurana (Eds.) Space and Time in Perception and Action (pp. 1-6). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Parkinson, J., Dyson, B. J. & Khurana, B. (2010). Line by line: the ERP correlates of stroke order priming in letters. Experimental Brain Research, 201(3), 575-586.
Khurana, B., Habibi, R., Po, J., & Wright, D.B. (2009). Jane versus John: Facial evaluation as a function of informative eye gaze. Social Cognition, 27, 150-160.
Khurana, B., Watanabe, K., & Nijhawan, R. (2000). Are moving objects ‘corrected’ or flashed objects attentionally delayed? Perception, 29, 675-692.
Khurana, B. (2000). Face representation without conscious processing. Chapter for The Neural Correlates Of Consciousness: Empirical And Conceptual Issues. Cambridge, USA: MIT Press.
Khurana, B., Smith, W., Baker, M. (2000). Not to be and then to be: Visual representation of ignored unfamiliar faces. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 26 (1), 246–263.
Khurana, B. (1998). Visual structure and the integration of form & color information. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 24 (6), 1766-1785.
Khurana, B. & Nijhawan, R. (1995). Extrapolation or attention shift? Nature, 378, 565-566.
Khurana, B. & Kowler, E. (1987). Shared attentional control of smooth eye movements and perception. Vision Research, 27, 1603-1618.
Dr David Taylor
Dean of Humanities
Before joining AUW, David Taylor was for many years at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where he became Pro-Director, Teaching and Learning, from 1998-2002. He then joined Aga Khan University in Karachi as Vice-Provost for Academic Development and worked there from 2002-2008. He also served as Interim Provost from 2003-2008. Later, he was appointed Director of the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations in London from 2013-2017. He is a political scientist and historian with a longstanding interest in South Asia, which he first visited as a student in 1962.
Research interests and publications
David Taylor has conducted research on Indian political parties and elections, in particular the Indian National Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party, Islamisation in Pakistan, the nature and origins of nationalism, and mass communication, particularly the Indian press. His publications include:
(ed. with Heewon Kim), Civil Society in South Asia (special issue of Journal of Civil Society, 17 (2021)
‘Pakistan: The Military as a Political Fixture’, in Peter Burnell and Vicky Randall, Politics in the Developing World, 5th ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 291-99.
(ed.) Islam in South Asia (4 vols) (London: Routledge, 2011)
‘Religion and Politics’, in Devin Hagerty ed., South Asia in World Politics (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005) pp. 213-30
(with Bharati Ray), Politics and Identity in South Asia (Kolkata: K.P. Bagchi, 2001)
‘The Bharatiya Janata Party and Hindu Nationalism in India’, in Katja Fullberg-Stolberg et al. eds., Dissociation and Appropriation: Responses to Globalization in Asia and Africa (Berlin: Verlag Das Arabische Buch, 1999) pp. 151-65
Pakistan (Oxford: Clio Press, 1990, World Bibliographical Series, vol. 10)
‘The Indian National Congress: A Hundred-Year Perspective’, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1987, no. 2 pp 289-305 (reprinted with minor additions in Institutions and Ideologies, D. Arnold and P. Robb eds. (London: Curzon Press, 1993), pp. 245-64)
‘The Politics of Islam and Islamization in Pakistan’, in James P. Piscatori ed., Islam in the Political Process (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983) pp. 181-98
(ed. with M. Yapp), Political Identity in South Asia (London: Curzon Press, 1979)
‘Concepts of Duty held by Indian Nationalist Thinkers’, in W. D. O’Flaherty and J. D. M. Derrett eds, The Concept of Duty in South Asia (Delhi: Vikas, and London: SOAS, 1978) pp. 205-16
‘The Crisis of Authority in the Indian National Congress, 1936-1939’, in B. N. Pandey ed., Leadership in South Asia (Delhi: Vikas, 1977) pp. 321-40
Education
1966 University of Cambridge
BA History
1967 School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
MA (Area Studies – South Asia)
1972 School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
PhD (dissertation title – Indian Politics and the elections of 1937)
Undergraduate Faculty
Dr Shams Forruque Ahmed
Associate Professor of Mathematics & Computational Science
Research
Research interests: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Sustainable Energy Technologies, and Heat Transfer.
Project involvements:
Worked as a Chief Investigator of the project titled “Thermal Performance of Earth Pipe Cooling and Heating System in a Subtropical Climate” during 2016-2017.
Grants Obtained:
Secured Research Grant of BDT 400000 from North South University, Bangladesh in 2016.
Publications
Authored Book:
S. F. Ahmed. 2011. Fibre Motion in Turbulent Flow: A Mathematical study of fibre suspensions in turbulent flow. Lambert Academic Publishing Limited, Germany, ISBN: 978-3846548660.
Book Chapters:
S. F. Ahmed, M.M.K. Khan, M.T.O. Amanullah, M.G. Rasul and N.M.S. Hassan. 2015. Numerical Modelling of Vertical Earth Pipe Cooling System for Hot and Humid Subtropical Climate, In: Progress in Clean Energy, Volume II: Novel Systems and Applications, Springer, ISBN: 978-3-319-17030-5.
S. F. Ahmed, M.M.K. Khan, M.T.O. Amanullah, M.G. Rasul and N.M.S. Hassan. 2015. Performance evaluation of hybrid earth pipe cooling with horizontal piping system, In: Thermofluid Modelling for Energy Efficiency Applications, Elsevier, ISBN: 9780128025895.
S. F. Ahmed, M. M. K. Khan, M. T. O. Amanullah, M. G. Rasul, and N. M. S. Hassan. 2018. Integrated model of horizontal earth pipe cooling system for a hot humid climate, In: Exergy for a Better Environment and Improved Sustainability 1, pp. 911-929. ISBN: 978-3-319-62571-3.
A. K. Azad, M. G. Rasul, B. Giannangelo, and S. F. Ahmed. 2018. Diesel engine performance and emission study using soybean biodiesel blends with fossil diesel, In: Exergy for a Better Environment and Improved Sustainability 2, pp. 137-155. ISBN: 978-3-319-62574-4.
A. K. Azad, M. G. Rasul, Rubayat Islam, and S. F. Ahmed. 2018. A Study on energy and environmental management techniques used in petroleum process industries. In: Exergy for a Better Environment and Improved Sustainability 2, pp. 219-230. ISBN: 978-3-319-62574-4.
Journal Articles:
S. F. Ahmed, M. T. O. Amanullah, M. M. K. Khan, M. G. Rasul, and N. M. S. Hassan, “Parametric study on thermal performance of horizontal earth pipe cooling system in summer,” Energy Conversion and Management, vol. 114, pp. 324-337, 2016.
S. F. Ahmed, M. M. K. Khan, M. T. O. Amanullah, M. G. Rasul, and N. M. S. Hassan, “Performance assessment of earth pipe cooling system for low energy buildings in a subtropical climate,” Energy Conversion and Management, vol. 106, pp. 815-825, 2015.
S. F. Ahmed, M. M. K. Khan, M. T. O. Amanullah, and M. G. Rasul, “Selection of suitable passive cooling strategy for a subtropical climate,” International Journal of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, vol. 9 (1), pp. 1-11, 2014.
S. F. Ahmed, M. M. K. Khan, M. G. Rasul, M. T. O. Amanullah, and N. M. S. Hassan, “Comparison of Earth Pipe Cooling Performance Between two Different Piping Systems,” Energy Procedia, vol. 61, pp. 1897-1901, 2014.
S. F. Ahmedand M. S. A. Sarker, “Derivation of turbulent energy of fiber suspensions,” Journal of Computational and Applied Research in Mechanical Engineering, vol. 4, pp. 155-163, 2015.
T. Ahasan, S. F. Ahmed, M. G. Rasul, M. M. K. Khan, and A. K. Azad, “Performance Evaluation of Hybrid Green Roof System in a Subtropical Climate Using Fluent,” Journal of Power and Energy Engineering, vol. 2, p. 113, 2014.
A. K. Azad, M. G. Rasul, M. M. K. Khan, T. Ahasan, and S. F. Ahmed, “Energy Scenario: Production, Consumption and Prospect of Renewable Energy in Australia,” Journal of Power and Energy Engineering, vol. 2, p. 19, 2014.
S. F. Ahmed, “Derivation of turbulent energy in a rotating system,” Journal of Computational and Applied Research in Mechanical Engineering, vol. 3, pp. 75-83, 2013.
S. F. Ahmed, “Derivation of energy equation for turbulent flow with two-point correlation,” Pure and Applied Mathematics Journal, vol. 2, pp. 197-200, 2013.
S. F. Ahmed, “Derivation of turbulent energy in presence of dust particles,” American Journal of Applied Mathematics, vol. 1, pp. 71-77, 2013.
S. F. Ahmed and M. S. A. Sarker, “Fiber Motion in Dusty Fluid Turbulent Flow in a Rotating System,” International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, vol. 10, pp. 92-109, 2014.
S. F. Ahmed, “Conversion of energy equation for turbulent motion and its applications,” Applied and Computational Mathematics, vol. 3, pp. 110-116, 2014.
S. F. Ahmed, “Turbulent Energy for Dusty Fluid in a Rotating System,” International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, vol. 9, pp. 50-61, 2012.
S. F. Ahmedand M. S. A. Sarker, “Fibre Suspensions in Turbulent flow with Two-Point Correlation,” Bangladesh Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research, vol. 46, pp. 265-270, 2011.
S. F. Ahmedand M. S. A. Sarker, “Fibre motion in dusty fluid turbulent flow with two-point correlation,” Journal of Scientific Research, vol. 3, pp. 283-290, 2011.
M. S. A. Sarker and S. F. Ahmed, “Motion of fibres in turbulent flow in a rotating system,” Rajshahi University Studies, Part-B, Journal of Science, vol. 37, pp. 107-117, 2009.
S. T. A. Siddique, S. F. Ahmed, and M. H. Islam, “Earth Pipe Cooling Strategy in Buildings: A Sustainable Approach”, Journal of Natural Sciences Research, vol. 8, pp. 36-43, 2018.
S. Ahmed, A. M. Hall, and S. F. Ahmed, “Comparative Biodegradability Assessment of Different Types of paper”, Journal of Natural Sciences Research, vol. 8, pp. 9-20, 2018.
Articles in Progress:
S. F. Ahmed, M. M. K. Khan, M. T. O. Amanullah, M. G. Rasul, and N. M. S. Hassan, “Vertical earth pipe cooling performance in low energy buildings in summer,” Applied Energy, Elsevier (Under review).
S. F. Ahmed, “Passive cooling system for hot and humid subtropical climates: a sustainable approach”, Building and Environment, Elsevier (Under review).
S. F. Ahmed, M. M. K. Khan, M. T. O. Amanullah, M. G. Rasul, and N. M. S. Hassan, “Parametric study on vertical earth pipe cooling performance in a subtropical climate,” Energy, Elsevier (Under review).
S. F. Ahmed, M. M. K. Khan, M. T. O. Amanullah, M. G. Rasul, and N. M. S. Hassan, “Horizontal earth pipe cooling performance in low energy buildings in summer”, Renewable Energy, Elsevier (Under review).
Conference papers:
S. F. Ahmed, M. M. K. Khan, M. T. O. Amanullah, M. G. Rasul, and N. M. S. Hassan, “Performance Analysis of Vertical Earth Pipe Cooling System for Subtropical Climate,” in International Conference on Clean Energy, Istanbul, Turkey 2014, pp. 691-700.
S. F. Ahmed, M. M. K. Khan, M. T. O. Amanullah, M. G. Rasul, and N. M. S. Hassan, “Numerical Modelling of Hybrid Vertical Earth Pipe Cooling System,” in The 19th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, Melbourne, Australia 2014.
S. F. Ahmed, M. M. K. Khan, M. T. O. Amanullah, M. G. Rasul, and N. M. S. Hassan, “Thermal performance analysis of earth pipe cooling system for subtropical climate,” in 12th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies, Hong Kong, 2013, pp. 1795-1803.
S. F. Ahmed and M. S. A. Sarker, “Fibre Suspensions in turbulent flow,” in 5th Asian mathematical conference (AMC), June 22–26, 2009, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Vol. II: Applied Mathematics.
Abu Naser Sarker, M. Jalal Ahammad, and S. F. Ahmed, “A Numerical Study of the Non-Steady Diffusion Equation in Two Dimensions”, in 5th International Conference on Natural science and Technology, Chittagong, Bangladesh , 2018, pp. 39-44.
S. Ahmed, A. M. Hall, and S. F. Ahmed, “Biodegradation of Different Types of Paper in a Compost Environment”, in 5th International Conference on Natural science and Technology, Chittagong, Bangladesh , 2018, pp. 26-30.
Education
Ph.D. Engineering and Technology, Central Queensland University, Australia
M.Phil. Applied Mathematics, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh
M.Sc. Applied Mathematics, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh
B.Sc. Applied Mathematics, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh
Dr Nazmul Alam
Associate Professor of Public Health
Research
Research interests:
- Implementation and Evaluation
- Infectious diseases epidemiology
- STI/HIV
- Human Papilloma Virus/Cervical cancer
- Maternal Health
Project involvements:
- Transformative Competency-Based Public Health Education for Professional Employability in Bangladesh’s Health Sector. Erasmus+ grant along BRAC School of Public Health.
- Evaluation of enhanced befriending to improve psychological well-being and quality of life for adolescent mothers in slums of Chittagong, Bangladesh.
Grants Obtained:
Erasmus+ grant along BRAC School of Public Health (EU 999,500. from 07/2018 to 06/2022)
Project: Transformative Competency-Based Public Health Education for Professional Employability in Bangladesh’s Health Sector.
Role: Co-Applicant
Grand Challenge Canada Stars in Global Health (CAD 113,000 from 4/2013 to 12/2014)
Project: Community operated motorized three wheeler van for rapid transportation of pregnant women in rural areas for emergency obstetric care in Bangladesh and Burkina Faso.
Role: Principal Investigator
Global Health Research Capacity Strengthening Program (CAD 19,000 from 3/2013 to 12/2014)
Project: North-South research partnership development: needs assessment for HIV prevention intervention for migrants workers in Bangladesh
Role: Principal Investigator
Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria-Sub-recipient (fromUS$ 59,000 from 06/2010 to 03/2012)
Project: Measuring the effects of changes in the Drop-in-Centre operations and changes in advocacy strategies among female sex workers in Dhaka.
Role: Principal Investigator
ICDDR,B PhD returnee mentorship grant (US$25,000 from 10/2009 to 09/2010)
Project: Improving recognition, referral, and prevention practices for sexually transmitted infections among medicine sellers in Bangladesh.
Role: Principal Investigator
Publications
Book Chapters
- Alam N., Mamun M., Dema P. (2019) Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH): Key Global Public Health Agenda in SDG Era. In: Leal Filho W., Wall T., Azul A., Brandli L., Özuyar P. (eds) Good Health and Well-Being. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-95680-0.
Journal Articles (selected)
Full list available at: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Feai8RgAAAAJ&hl=en
- Islam JY, Khatun F, Alam A, Sultana F, Bhuiyan A, Alam N, Reichenbach L, Marions L, Rahman M, Nahar Q. Knowledge of cervical cancer and HPV vaccine in
- Bangladeshi women: a population based, cross-sectional study. BMC Women’s Health 2018 Jan 11;18(1):15.
- Wahed T, Alam A, Sultana S, Rahman M, Alam N, Martens M, Somrongthong R. Barriers to sexual and reproductive healthcare services as experienced by female sex workers and service providers in Dhaka city, Bangladesh. PLOS ONE. 2017 Jul 31;12(7):e0182249. PubMed PMID: 28759575
- Alam N, Chowdhury ME, Kuanda S, Alam A, Sia D, Seppe M, Sawadogo J, Fournier P. Role of transportation to access maternal care services for women in rural Burkina Faso and Bangladesh: a mixed method study. Int J Gynaecol Obstet. 2016 Nov;135 Suppl 1:S45-S50.
- Alam N, Alam A, Fournier P. Medicine sellers for the prevention and control of sexually transmitted infections: effect of a quasi-experimental training intervention in Bangladesh. BioMed Res Int. 2015, 570340, 8 pages. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/570340
- Alam N, Mridha MK, Kristensen S, Vermund SH. Knowledge and skills for management of sexually transmitted infections among rural medical practitioners in Bangladesh. J Prev Med. 2015 Apr 1;5(4):151-158. PubMed PMID: 25954593
- Alam N, Hajizadeh M, Dumont A, Fournier P. Inequalities in maternal health care utilization in sub-saharan African countries: a multiyear and multi-country analysis. PLOS ONE 2015 Apr 8;10(4):e0120922. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120922.
- Alam N., Merry, L.A., Islam, M.M. and Cortijo, C.Z. (2015) International Health Professional Migration and Brain Waste: A Situation of Double-Jeopardy. Open J of Prev Med, 5, 128-131. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ojpm.2015.53015
- Hajizadeh M, Alam N, Nandi A. Social inequalities in the utilization of maternal care in Bangladesh: Have they widened or narrowed in recent years? Int J Equity Health. 2014 Dec 10;13(1):120.
- Nahar Q, Sultana F, Alam A, Islam JY, Rahman M, Khatun F, Alam N .. Reichenbach L. Genital human papillomavirus infection among women in Bangladesh: findings from a population-based survey. PLOS ONE. 2014. 9(10): e107675.
- Alam N, Choudhury ME, Mridha M.K, Reichenbach LJ, Streatfield PK, Ahmed AU, Azim T. Factor associated with condom use negotiation among female sex workers in Bangladesh. Int J STD AIDS. 2013 Oct;24(10) 813–821.
Working Papers / Reports
- Azim T, Khan SI, Nahar Q, Alam N, Reza M, Alam S, Islam E. Twenty years of HIV in Bangladesh: Experiences and Way Forward. The World Bank, UNAIDS. Dhaka: 2009.
- Chowdhury ME, Anwar I, Alam N, Ahmed A, Das Gupta S, Mridha MK, Bashir I, Streatfield PK, Mallick PS. Assessment of sexual behavior of men in Bangladesh: a methodological experiment. Dhaka, Family Health International, Bangladesh and ICDDR,B, 2006.viii, 84 p.
Knowledge translation brief:
Alam N. et al. Brief counseling can improve partner referral for management and control of sexually transmitted infection. http://rpcc.dghs.gov.bd/policy.php
Blog: Nazmul Alam. ‘Needs and Gaps in Health System Capacities: Ebola in focus’. Canadian Society for International Health. http://www.csih.org/en/uncategorized/ebola-in-focus-ccgh-2015-plenary-nov-07-2015/
Education
Doctor of Public Health (DrPH): University of Alabama at Birmingham
MPH Epidemiology : University of Alabama at Birmingham
MSc in Microbiology : University of Dhaka
BSc (Hons) in Biology : University of Dhaka
Dr Zulfikar Alom
Assistant Professor of Computer Science - On Leave
Dr. Zulfikar Alom was awarded the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Science from the University of Insubria, Italy, in October 2019. The title of his Doctoral Dissertation is “Enhancing Data Privacy and Security Related Process Through Machine Learning“. He received Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Information and Communication Engineering from the Islamic University, Bangladesh in 2014 and 2016, respectively. He received the ICT Ministry Fellowship award from the ICT Division, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Coordinator of this program.
Courses
- Introduction to Computing and Programming (CS50)
- Database Management Systems
- Computer Communications Networks
- Software Engineering and Mobile Apps Development (iOS and Android)
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning
- Advanced Bioinformatics with Programming
Research
Dr. Alom’s main research interests are related to Cybersecurity, Malware detection, Big Data, Internet-of-Things (IoT), Social Networks Analysis, Machine/Deep learning, and security, privacy issues of the user-centric data management system and Bioinformatics.
Published Papers
- Zulfikar Alom, Bikash Chandra Singh., Zeyar Aung, Mohammad Abdul Azim “Knapsack graph-based privacy checking for smart environments” International Journal of Computers & Security, 2021
- Zulfikar Alom, Mohammad Abdul Azim, Zeyar Aung, Matloob Khushi, Josip Car, Mohammad Ali Moni “Early Stage Detection of Heart Failure using Machine Learning Techniques” International Conference on Big Data, IoT and Machine Learning (BIM), 2021
- Dema Daoun, Fabiha Ibnat, Zulfikar Alom, Zeyar Aung, Mohammad Abdul Azim “Reinforcement Learning: A Friendly Introduction” International Conference on Deep Learning, Big Data and Blockchain (DEEP-BDB), 2021
- Dipankar Kumar Mondal, Bikash Chandra Singh, Shivazi Biswas, Zulfikar Alom, Mohammad Abdul Azim “SeizeMaliciousURL: A Novel Learning Approach to Detect Malicious URLs” International Journal of Information Security and Applications, 2021
- Zulfikar Alom, Barbara Carminati, Elena Ferrari, “A Deep Learning Model for Twitter Spam Detection” International Journal of Online Social Networks and Media (OSNEM), 2020
- Zulfikar Alom, Barbara Carminati, Elena Ferrari, “Helping Users Managing Context-based Privacy Preferences” 2019 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC, 2019), pp. 100-107, Milan, Italy
- Zulfikar Alom, Barbara Carminati, Elena Ferrari, “Adapting Users’ Privacy Preferences in Smart Environments” 2019 IEEE International Congress on Internet of Things (ICIOT, 2019), pp. 165-172, Milan, Italy
- Zulfikar Alom, Barbara Carminati, Elena Ferrari, “Detecting Spam Accounts on Twitter” IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM, 2018), 1191-1198, Barcelona, Spa
- Zulfikar Alom, Tapan Kumar Godder, Mohammad Nayeem Morshed, “Performance Analysis of Routing Protocols in Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET)” International Conference on Advanced Information and Communication Technology (ICAICT, 2016), Chittagong, Bangladesh
- Zulfikar Alom, Tapan Kumar Godder, Mohammad Nayeem Morshed, Asmaa Maali, “Enhanced Spectrum Sensing based on Energy Detection in Cognitive Radio Network using Adaptive Threshold” IEEE International Conference on Networking, Systems and Security (NSysS, 2017), 138-143, Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Zulfikar Alom, Tapan Kumar Godder, Mohammad Nayeem Morshed, “A Survey of Spectrum Sensing Techniques in Cognitive Radio Network” 2015 IEEE International Conference on Advances in Electrical Engineering (ICAEE, 2015), 161-164, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Papers Under Submission
- Dema Daoun, Zulfikar Alom, Zeyar Aung, Mohammad Abdul Azim “Reinforcement Learning in Blockchain-enabled IoT Networks Challenges”, International Journal of AI Communications.
- Nilufa Yeasmin, Nosin Ibna Mahbub, Bikash Chandra Singh, Zulfikar Alom, Mohammad Abdul Azim, “Analysis and Prediction of User Sentiment on COVID-19 Pandemic using Tweets”, International Journal of Social Network Analysis and Mining.
- Bikash Chandra Singh, Zulfikar Alom, Mohammad Muntasir Rahman, Mrinal Kanti Baowal, Zeyar Aung, Mohammad Ali Moni, Mohammad Abdul Azim, “COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak in the Subcontinent: A data-driven analysis”, International Journal of Personalized Medicine.
- Fabiha Ibnat, Jigmey Gyalmo, Zulfikar Alom, Mohammad Abdul Azim, “Understanding World Happiness using Machine Learning Techniques” International Conference on Electronics, Communications and Information Technology, (ICECIT) 2021
- Khondoker Mirazul, Zulfikar Alom, Mohammad Abdul Azim, Abdul Awal, “OLGBM: Optuna Optimized Light Gradient Boosting Machine for Intrusion Detection” International Conference on Electronics, Communications and Information Technology, (ICECIT) 2021
Education
Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Insubria, Italy
M.Sc. Information and Communication Engineering, Islamic University, Bangladesh
B.Sc. Information and Communication Engineering, Islamic University, Bangladesh
Dr Tuhin Biswas
Assistant Professor of Public Health
Tuhin working as a Assistant Professor of 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.
Project involvements
- Exposure to Trihalomethanes in pregnancy and birth outcomes in Queensland: integrated data analysis and case studies for better policy and health outcomes.
- Mobile phone-based technology to improve health, population and nutrition services in Rural Bangladesh.
- Community based lifestyle intervention for diabetes management in Nepal: A clustered randomized trial.
- Obesity prevalence and patterns of diet and physical activity among children and adolescents in urban areas in Bangladesh.
- Prevalence Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases among the Elders in Old-age Homes in Bangladesh.
- Mobile Phone Intervention for Increasing Adherence to Treatment for Type 2 Diabetes in an Urban Area of Bangladesh: a Randomized Controlled Trial.
- Social and economic impact of diabetics in Bangladesh: a case–control study.
- 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.
- Prevalence of maternal depression of autistic children in Dhaka city and feasibility of implementing household-based training for parents.
- Factors determining development of effective policy strategy to improve rural retention of medical doctors in Bangladesh.
- Assessing emerging challenges and solutions on Faculty Development in the Health sector in Bangladesh.
- 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.
- Determining the challenges and opportunities for strengthening NCD corners in Bangladesh: A situation analyses.
Journal Articles
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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):e0228
- 1Das 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Mohiuddin Ahsanul Kabir Chowdhury
Assistant Professor of Public Health
Dr. Chowdhury has recently joined as an Assistant Professor of Public Health. He will be 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Mapping subnational HIV mortality in six Latin American countries with incomplete vital registration systems. Local Burden of Diseases HIV Collaborators. BMC Medicine. 2021
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Morbidity and mortality from road injuries: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. James SL, GBD collaborators. Injury prevention. 2020
- 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
- Global injury morbidity and mortality from 1990 to 2017: results from Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. James SL, GBD collaborators . Injury prevention. 2020
- Estimating global injuries morbidity and mortality: methods and data used in Global Burden of Disease 2017 study. James SL, GBD collaborators . Injury prevention. 2020
- 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
- RELISH-DB a large expert-curated database for benchmarking biomedical literature search Brown P, RELISH Consortium, Zhou Y . Scientific data. 2019
- Large expert-curated database for benchmarking document similarity detection in biomedical literature search. Brown P, RELISH Consortium, Zhou Y. Database. 2019
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Ambiguous Genitalia – A social dilemma in Bangladesh: A Case Report. Chowdhury MAK, Anwar MR, Saha A. International Journal of Surgery Case Reports. 2018
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Child marriage: historical reality around the globe and in Bangladesh. Chowdhury MAK, Morium S. Archives of Psychology. 2018
- 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
- 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
Director of the Core Program and Associate Professor of Philosophy
Simon Clarke is the Director of the Core General Education Program and teaches courses in 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 Suparna Das
Assistant Professor of Economics
Fall 2019 Courses
Principles of Microeconomics, Intermediate Macroeconomics, Research Methodology
Research
Research interests: Applied Microeconomics, Gender Economics, Development Economics and Growth.
Her research focuses on economic development with special emphasis on gender inequalities, gender budgeting, economics of education.
Publications
Book Chapters
Mehta, A.K.; Das, S. and Satpathy, T. (2007). Beyond Micro-credit: Financial Inclusion and Micro-enterprise Development for Poverty Reduction, in 9th chapter in ‘Understanding Poverty in India’ ADB publication.
Journal Articles
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
PhD in Economics with Summa Cum Laude, Central European University, Budapest (Hungary) 03/2019 Thesis: Essays in Development Economics with Special Emphasis on Gender Inequalities
Supervisor: Prof. Andrea Weber
MA in Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India 2002B.Sc. with Economics (Hons.), Statistics, Mathematics; Calcutta University, Kolkata, India
B.Sc. with Economics (Hons.), Statistics, Mathematics; Calcutta University, Kolkata, India
Dr Jyotish Chandra Debnath
Assistant Professor of Physics
Research interests:
- Magnetism & Magnetic Materials
- Magnetism – magnetocaloric effect, phase transitions, spin glasses, magnetic domains
- Colossal Magnetoresistance
- Magnetic and Magnetocaloric properties of Thin film
- Strongly correlated Electron Systems
- Neutron scattering – elastic and inelastic as a probe of magnetic structure and excitations.
- Thermoelectric effects of Low Cost Earth-abundant materials
Grants Obtained:
- 2017-2019: J. C. Debnath – Multivariable tuning and optimization in magnetostructural systems of magnetocaloric Materials – Academy of Finland-Research Fellow, Finland, Amount – $120000.
- 2015-2017: J. C. Debnath – New low cost, efficient functional intermetallics free of toxic and rare‐earth elements – Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Australia, Amount – $175000.
- 2012-2015: J. C. Debnath – Novel Magnetocaloric Materials for the application of Large-Scale Magnetic Refrigeration – NRF (National Research Foundation) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (Innovation) South Africa, Amount – $150000.
- 2009: J. C. Debnath – Neutron diffraction study for the magnetocaloric material La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 – AINSE (Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering) research fellowship at ANSTO, Australia, Amount – $17500.
Publications
Journal Articles
Contributed to 29 publications in high impact internationally recognized journals. At present the total citation is 339, h-index 12 and i12-index is 16.
Citation URL:http://scholar.google.co.za/citations?user=6JQbqKQAAAAJ
Shamba, P. , Debnath, J.C. Wang, J., & Dou, S. X. “High pressure Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction study of the Mn0.94Ti0.06CoGe alloy”. Physica B, 554, 5 (2019).
Debnath, J.C., J. L. Wang & Zeng, R. “Charge ordering and exchange bias behaviors in Co3O4 porous nanoplatelets and nanorings”. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 421, 422 (2017).
Debnath, J.C., & J. L. Wang, “Magnetic and electrical response of Co-doped La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 manganites/insulator system”. (Physica B). 504, 58 (2017).
Debnath, J.C., S. K. Nair, Strydom, A. M., Ramesh kumar K., J. L. Wang, “Magnetocaloric properties of metamagnetic ErRhSi compound”. Journal of Applied Physics. 120, 233909 (2016).
Debnath, J.C. , J. L. Wang, “Magnetocaloric effect in HoMn2Si2 compound with multiple magnetic phase transitions”. (Intermetallics). 78, 50 (2016).
Debnath, J.C. , Strydom, A. M., “Large low field magneto-resistance and temperature coefficient of resistance in La0.8Ca0.2MnO3 epitaxial thin film”. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 555, 33 (2015).
Debnath, J.C. , Strydom, A. M., Tappe, F., Pottgen, R. “Magnetic and thermodynamic properties of Ce4RuAl”. Acta Physica Polonica A, 127, 237 (2015).
Debnath, J.C. , Strydom, A. M., Tappe, F., Pottgen, R., (2015). “Magnetic and thermodynamic properties of Ce23Ru7Mg4 compound”. SAIP Proceedings, 978, 19 (2015).
M. F. Md Din, J. L. Wang, Q. F Gu, R. Zeng, J. C Debnath, P. Shamba, S. J. Kennedy and S. X. Dou. “Effects of Cr substitution on structural and magnetic properties in La0.7Pr0.3Fe11.4Si1.6 compound” Journal of Applied Physics, 115, 17A942 (2014).
Debnath, J.C. , Strydom, A. M., “Transport-entropy correlations in La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 manganite”. Physica B, 432, 96 (2014).
Debnath, J.C., Strydom, A. M., Wang, J. L., Shamba, P., & Dou, S.X.. “Critical phenomena and investigation of the spontaneous magnetization by a magnetic entropy analysis in Mn0.96Nb0.04CoGe alloy”. Journal of Applied Physics, 113, 233903 (2013).
Debnath, J.C., Shamba, P., Wang, J. L., Strydom, A. M., & Dou, S.X.. “Investigation of the critical behavior in the Mn0.94Nb0.06CoGe alloys by using the field dependence of magnetic entropy change”. Journal of Applied Physics, 113, 093902 (2013).
Debnath, J.C., Kim, J. H., Heo, Y., Strydom, A. M., & Dou, S. X.. “Correlation between structural parameters and the magnetocaloric effect in epitaxial La0.8Ca0.2MnO3/LaAlO3 thin film”. Journal of Applied Physics, 113, 063508 (2013).
Debnath, J.C., Zeng, R., Strydom, A. M., Wang, J.Q., and Dou, S. X.. “Ideal Ericsson cycle Magnetocaloric effect in (La0.9Gd0.1)0.67Sr0.33MnO3 single crystalline nanoparticles. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 555, 33 (2013).
Shamba, P., Debnath, J.C., Wang, J. L., Zeng, R., Din, M. F., Kennedy, S. J.& Dou, S. X.. “Investigation of the magnetocaloric effect and the critical behavior in the Mn0.94Ti0.06CoGe alloys”. J. Phys.: Condens. Matter, 25 056001 (2013).
Md Din, M.F., Wang, J. L., Zeng, R., Shamba, P., Debnath, J. C. & Dou, S. X.. “Effects of Cu doping on structural and magnetic properties of La0.7Pr0.3Fe11.4Si1.6 compounds”. Intermetallics, 36, 1-7 (2013).
Shamba, P., Wang, J. L., Debnath, J. C., Zeng, R. Kennedy, S. J.& Dou, S. X. (2013). “On the crystal structure and magnetic properties of the Mn0.94Ti0.06CoGe alloy”. Journal of Applied Physics, 113, 17A941 (2013).
Wang, J. L., Shamba, P., Hutchison, W. D., Md Din, M. F., Debnath, J.C., Avdeev, M., Zeng, R., Kennedy, S. J., Campbell, S. J., & Dou, S.X.. “Ti substitution for Mn in MnCoGe – Effects on structure, magnetism and entropy”. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 577, 475 (2013).
Zeng, R. , Zhang, C. F., Debnath, J.C. ,Shamba, P., Wang, J. L., Dou, S. X. (2012) “Extremely Large Magnetic Entropy Changes, Quantum Phases, Transitions and Diagram in Gd(OH)3 Single Crystal Nanowires – Quasi-1D Large Spin (S = -7/2) Chain Antiferromagnet”. (Journal name: arXiv:1207.3239). (Bibliographic Code: 2012arXiv1207.3239Z). (Comment: 32 pages, 13 figures).
Debnath, J.C. , Zeng, R., Shamba, P., Kim, J. H. & Dou, S. X.. “Effect of frozen spin on the magnetocaloric property of La0.7Ca0.3CoO3 polycrystalline and single crystal samples”. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 510, 125-133 (2012).
Debnath, J.C. , Zeng, R., Shamba, P., Kim, J. H. & Dou, S. X.. “Reduction of hysteresis loss in LaFe11.7Si1.3Hx hydrides with significant magnetocaloric effects”. Applied Physics A, 106, 245-250 (2012).
Debnath, J.C. , Zeng, R., Kim, J. H. & Dou, S. X.. “Anisotropic and excellent magnetocaloric properties of La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 single crystal with anomalous magnetization”. Materials Science and Engineering B, 177, 48-53 (2012).
Zeng, R., Wang, S. Q., DU, G. D., Wang, J. L., Debnath, J.C. , Shamba, Z. Y. , Fang, R. & Dou, S. X.. “Abnormal Magnetic Behaviors and Large Magnetocaloric Effect in MnPS3 Nanoparticles”. Journal of Applied Physics, 111, 07E144 (2012).
Debnath, J.C. , Zeng, R., Kim, J. H. & Dou, S. X., “Large magnetic entropy change near room temperature in La0.7(Ca0.27Ag0.03)MnO3 perovskite”. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 509, 3699-3704 (2011).
Debnath, J.C. , Zeng, R., Kim, J. H. & Dou, S. X., “Improvement of refrigerant capacity of La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 material with a few percent Co doping”. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 323,139-144 (2011).
Shamba, P. , Debnath, J.C. , Zeng, R., Wang, J., Kennedy,S., Campbell, S. & Dou, S. X.. “Reduction of hysteresis losses in the magnetic refrigerant La0.8Ce0.2Fe11.4Si1.6 by the addition of boron”. Journal of Applied Physics, 109, 07A940 (2011).
Zeng, R. , Debnath, J.C. , Chen, D., Wang, J., Kennedy,S., Campbell, S. & Dou, S. X.. “Magnetic properties in polycrystalline and single crystal Ca-doped LaCoO3”. Journal of Applied Physics, 109, 07E146 (2011).
Debnath, J.C. , Zeng, R., Kim, J. H. & Dou, S. X.. “Multifunctionality from coexistence of large magnetoresistance and magnetocaloric effect in La0.7Ca0.3MnO3”. AIP Conference Proceedings, 1347 (2011) 278.
Debnath, J.C. , Zeng, R., Kim, J. H. & Dou, S. X., “Giant magnetic entropy change in colossal magnetoresistance in La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 material in low field”. Journal of Applied Physics, 107, 09A916 (2010).
Education
B.Sc (Hon’s) and M.Sc in Physics from Dhaka University, Bangladesh.
PhD in Physics (Magnetism and Magnetocaloric materials) from the University of Wollongong, Australia.
Dr Mukesh Kumar Gupta
Assistant Professor of Environmental Sciences
Research
Dr. Gupta’s research interests are: Energy and Natural resource policy analysis, Climate Change & Energy for Development; Low Carbon Growth Strategies using scenario analysis; Analysis of Multiple Impacts of climate mitigation and adaptation activities; Sustainability and Systems Thinking; Energy and Sustainability Legislative & Policy Monitoring, dissemination, analysis & communication
Publications
Journal Articles
Kinley, Z., Gupta, M., and Nazim, S., 2021. The Residential Energy Futures of Bhutan, Energy Efficiency (2021) 14:38, Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12053-021-09948-x
10 New Insights in Climate Science 2020 – a Horizon Scan, Accepted Manuscript for Global Sustainability (2021), DOI: 10.1017/sus.2021.2 (in Press)
IPCC Special Report Global Warming of 1.5 °C, Contributing author (Chapter 5: Sustainable development, poverty eradication, and reducing inequalities), https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/
Technical Summary of the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), https://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_ts.pdf
Güneralp,B., Zhou, Y., Ürge-Vorsatz, D., Gupta, M., Yu, S., Patel, P., Fragkias, M., Li, X., Seto, K., (2017) Global scenarios of urban density and its impacts on building energy use through 2050, Special Feature – Sustainability in an Urbanizing Planet – Urbanization to Mega-Urban Regions, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)
Urge-Vorsatz, D., Kelemen, A., Thomas, S., Thema, J., Tirado-Herrero, S., Mzavanadze, N., Hauptstock, D., Suerkemper, F., Teubler, J., Gupta, M., Chatterjee, S. 2016. Measuring multiple impacts of low-carbon energy options in a green economy context, Applied Energy 179 (2016) 1409–1426
IPCC Special Report Global Warming of 1.5 °C, Contributing author (Chapter 5: Sustainable development, poverty eradication, and reducing inequalities), Forthcoming in 2018.
Urge-Vorsatz, D., Kelemen A., Gupta, M., Chatterjee, S., Egyed, E. and Reith A., 2015. Literature review on Multiple Impact quantification methodologies, D 2.1 report, Calculating and Operationalising the Multiple Benefits of Energy Efficiency in Europe (COMBI)
Book Chapters, etc.
Gupta, M. 2015. The Future of Slums Hinges on Sustainability, Chapter 24, Condie, J., & Cooper, A. M. (2015). Dialogues of Sustainable Urbanisation: Social Science Research and Transitions to Urban Contexts. Penrith, N.S.W.: University of Western Sydney.
Working Papers / Reports
Future Earth, The Earth League, WCRP (2021). 10 New Insights in Climate Science 2020. Stockholm
https://futureearth.org/10-insights-2020
Gupta, M.K. 2007. Promoting Self Sufficiency Through Carbon Credits From Conservation and Management of Forests, Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA.
Gupta, M. 2010. Carbon payment levels for forestry land use on reclaimed mine lands in the seven-state Mid-West Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (MRCSP) region, Division of Resource Management, Davis College, West Virginia University, Unpublished research paper
Gupta, M.K. “Mapping and Analyzing Landscape Pattern, and Study of Vegetation Indices in Itanagar and Surroundings Using Remote Sensing and GIS Technology”. Master’s project report, Vikram University, India, May 2000.
Education
Ph.D. Environmental Sciences and Policy, Central European University, Hungary
M.S. Environmental Sciendes and Policy, International Development, Community and Environment, Clark University, USA
M.S. Environment Management, Vikram University, India
B.S. Biology, A.P.S. University Satna, India
Dr Moinul Islam
Associate Professor of Economics; Head of Arts and Social Sciences
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 Ahmedul Kabir
Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Professor Kabir studies material synthesis, remediation of inorganic and organic pollutants from food and environment, and analytical method development.
Publications
Journal Articles:
Foutch, G.; Apblett, A.; Hasan, M.; Kabir,A., Impact of Film-Forming Amines on Condensate Polishing Ion Exchange Resins. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA. Technical Report TR#3002000710, February, 2014.
Foutch, G.; Apblett A.; Hasan, M.; Kabir,A., Impact of Film-Forming Amines on Condensate Polishing Ion Exchange Resins. EPRI, Palo Alto, CA. Technical Report TR#3002000416, April, 2013.
NilufarNahar, Mohammad Shoeb, M Iqbal RoufMamun, Sultan Ahmed, Mir Mahadi Hasan, Ahmedul Kabir. Studies of Dissipation Pattern of Cyoermethrin in Tomato. Journal of Bangladesh Chemical Society 2012, Vol. 25(2), 200-203.
M. Hasan*, M. M. Rahman, A. Kabir*, A. Apblett, G. Foutch. Mass-Transfer Coefficient as an Indicator of Resin Performance: Impacts of Film-Forming Amines and Storage Time on Condensate Polishing Ion-Exchange Resins. ACS Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research 2018, DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.8b01681
Working Papers/Reports:
Kabir, A.; Apblett, A., A Simple Method for the Quantitative Analysis of Alkalizing and Filming Amines Used in the Condensate Systems
Kabir, A.; Apblett, A., Synthesis of the Spherical Aggregates of Nanometric Molybdenum (VI) and Tungsten (VI) Oxides for Heavy Metal Remediation
Education
Ph.D. Chemistry, Oklahoma State University, USA
M.Sc. Organic Chemistry, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
B.Sc. Chemistry, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Dr Mohammad Manir Hossain Mollah
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics/Bioinformatics
Research interests:
- Statistical modeling for molecular OMICS (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, Toxicogenomics, and so on) data analysis to molecular biomarker.
- Biostatistics, Public health, Longitudinal Data Analysis, Survival Analysis, Epidemiological data analysis to identify risk factors of an outcome variable.
Project involvements:
Co-investigator & Statistician in the following research projects at BUHS
- A Research on Practice and Treatment towards Diabetes Mellitus of Diabetic Patients in Bangladesh Perspective
- Livelihood Status of the Person with Diabetes
Grants Obtained:
- Non-communicable Diseases Control program, DGHS, Mohakhali, Dhaka
Publications
Journal Articles
- Rahman NIA, Abdul Murad NA, Mollah MM, Jamal R, Harun R, NFIX as a Master Regulator for Lung Cancer Progression. Front Pharmacol, 2017.
- Md. Shahjaman, Nishit Kumar, M. Manir Hossain Mollah, Md. Shakil Ahmed, Anjuman Ara Begum, SM Shahinul Islam and Md. Nurul Haque Mollah, Robust Significance Analysis of Microarrays by minimum β-divergence method. BioMed Research International, 2017.
- Nurul Ainin Abdul Aziz, Norfilza M. Mokhtar, Roslan Harun, M. Manir Hossain Mollah, Isa Mohamed Rose, Ismail Sagap, AzmiMohd Tamil, Wan Zurinah Wan Ngah and Rahman Jamal. 19-Gene Expression Signature as a Predictor of Survival in Colorectal Cancer. BMC Medical Genomic, 9, 2016, UK.
- M. Manir Hossain Mollah, Rahman Jamal, NorfilzaMohd Mokhtar, Roslan Harun andMd. NurulHaqueMollah. A Hybrid One-Way ANOVA Approach for the Robust and Efficient Estimation of Differential Gene Expression with Multiple Patterns. PLoS One, 10 2015.
- Fateen Farhana Ibrahim, Rahman Jamal, Saiful Effendi Syafruddin, Nurul Syakima Ab Mutalib, Sazuita Saidin, Reena Rahayu MdZin, M. Manir Hossain Mollah and Norfilza Mohd Mokhtar. MicroRNA-200c and microRNA-31 regulate proliferation, colony formation, migration and invasion in serous ovarian cancer. Journal of Ovarian Research, 8, 2015, UK.
Working Papers / Reports
- Robust Identification of Differentially Expressed Genes from RNA-seq Data: Md. Shahjaman; Md. Manir Hossain Mollah; Nishith Kumar; SM Shahinul Islam; Md. Nurul Haque Mollah
Education
Doctor of Philosophy, University of Tokyo, Japan
- Field/Subject: Bioinformatics/Biostatistics, Department of Agriculture and Environmental Biology
Master of Science,University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh
- Field/Subject: Statistics, Department of Statistics
Bachelor of Science,University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh
- Field/Subject: Statistics, Department of Statistics
Dr AKM Moniruzzaman Mollah
Takeda Chair of Bioinformatics and Public Health
Professor Mollah studies the regulation of gene expression by macromolecular associations; protein structure and function; designing and modeling of three dimensional structures of proteins; the evolution of protein structures; and the biodegradation of synthetic materials by microbes.
Publications
Articles:
AMAM Zonaed Siddiki, DVM, MS, PhD; Abdul Baten; Masum Billah; Mohammad Atique Ul Alam; Kazi Shefaul Mulk Shawrob; Sourav Saha; Muntaha Chowdhury; Atif Hasan Rahman; Michael Stear; Gous Miah; Mahadia Kumkum; Md. Sirazul Islam; Mohammad Alamgir Hossain; AKM Moniruzzaman Mollah; Md. Kabirul Islam Khan (2019). The genome of the Black Bengal goat (Capra hircus), BMC Research Notes,12:362, https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4400-3
AMAM Siddiki, Atif Rahman, Michael Stear, Md. Kabirul Khan, Gous Miah, Masum Billah, Mohammad Alam, Kazi Shefaul Shawrob, Mahadia Kumkum, Sourav Saha, Muntaha Chowdhury, AKM Mollah, and Abdul Baten (2019). Complete Mitochondrial Genome Sequence of Black Bengal Goat (Capra hircus). Mitochondrial DNA Part B: Resources. https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/tmdn20
Nabila Ishaque Ira, Nema Marjana and A.K.M Moniruzzaman Mollah (2019). Antibiotic Resistance Bacteria in Tertiary Hospitals in Chittagong, Bangladesh. International Journal of Scientific Engineering and Science, ISSN (Online): 2456-7361, Volume 3, Issue 5, pp. 18-21, 2019.
Sabrina H. Wadood , Fatima Tuz Zohra and AKM Moniruzzaman Mollah. (2018). Biodegradation of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET or PETE) and High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) Using Microbes Isolated from Waste Dumping Sites in Chittagong, Bangladesh. International Journal of Advances in Science Engineering and Technology, ISSN(p): 2321 –8991, ISSN(e): 2321 –9009 Vol-6, Iss-3, Spl. Issue-1 Aug.-2018.
Misja Mumthaj Abul Muhseen, Md. Shoffikul Islam, Md. Abul Kashem and AKM Moniruzzaman Mollah. (2018). Influence of lherzolite on the growth of Chinese spinach and soil respiration in cadmium contaminated soil. Journal of Environmental Protection (JEP) Vol. 9: 790-800.
Nikita N. Naik, Nabila I. Ira, Sabrina Wadood, and A. K. M. M. Mollah. (2017). Quantification of DNA damage due to UV irradiation and Formalin, International Journal of Advances in Science, Engineering and Technology (IJASEAT), 5,3 (Spcl Iss-2 ).
Book Chapters:
Kushnir, A., Mollah, A.K.M.M. & Wehrens, X.H. (2005). Evolution of the Ryanodine Receptor Gene Family. Ryanodine Receptors:Structure, Function and Dysfunction in Clinical Disease. Springer Science + Business Media, Inc. Page 1-8
Dhavan, G., Mollah , A.K.M.M., & Brenowitz, M. (2002). Probing Kinetic and Equilibrium Binding Properties of DNA-Protein Complexes by Quantitative
DNaseI I Footprinting. Advances in DNA Sequence Specific Agents 04: 139-155.
Mollah, A.K.M.M. & Brenowitz, M. (2000). Quantitative DNase I Kinetics Footprinting. DNA Protein Interactions: Practical Approach. Oxford University Press, Page 281-290.
Work in Progress:
Nabila Ishaque Ira, Nema Marjana and A.K.M Moniruzzaman Mollah (2019) Identification of Satellite colonies from Antibiotic Resistance Bacteria in Hospitals- Chittagong, Bangladesh. (In Preparation).
Shah Nan Das, Md. Abul Kashem and AKM Moniruzzaman Mollah. (2019). Waste Management of Mango Pulp from PRAN Agro Ltd., Natore, Bangladesh. (In Preparation).
Education
P.D.F. Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA
Ph.D. Molecular Biology, University of Notre Dame, USA
M.B.A. Finance, Stony Brook University, USA
B.A. Biology, Illinois Wesleyan University, USA
Dr Lutfun Nahar
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Dr. Nahar joined AUW in August 2022. She obtained her bachelor majoring in Computer Science from Asian University for Women in 2013. She received her MSc and PhD in Visual Informatics from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). Before joining AUW she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Cyber Security in UKM. She actively publishes in various international journals and conferences in the field of educational technology, software engineering, artificial intelligence, deep learning and geospatial analysis.
Teaching
Introduction to Computing & Programming (CS50)
Research interests
Educational technology, Software Development & Usability engineering, Android programming, Artificial intelligence, Geospatial analytics, Deep learning, etc.
Journal Articles
Journal Articles
- Lutfun Nahar, Riza Sulaiman, Azizah Jaafar (2022) “An Interactive Math Braille Learning Application to Assist Blind Students in Bangladesh”, Assistive Technology 34(02): 157–169, [ISI Impact Factor of 2020 is 2.431, a Q2 journal].
- Lutfun Nahar, Azizah Jaafar, Riza Sulaiman (2021) “Bangla Braille Learning Application (BBLA)” for Visually Impaired Students (VIS) in Bangladesh”, Interactive Learning Environments 29(5): 821–834 [ISI Impact Factor of 2020 is 3.928, a Q1 journal].
- Lutfun Nahar, Azizah Jaafar, Riza Sulaiman (2019) “Usability Evaluation of a Mobile Phone Based Braille Application “mBRAILLE””, Malaysian Journal of Computer Science, Special Issue 2019, p. 108-117, [ISI Impact Factor of 2018 is 0.65, a Q4 journal].
- Lutfun Nahar, Azizah Jaafar, Eistiak Ahamed, A. B. M. A. Kaish (2015) “Design of a Braille Learning Application for Visually Impaired Students in Bangladesh”, Assistive Technology, 27(3): 172-182, [ISI Impact Factor of 2014 is 1.679, a Q1 journal].
- Lutfun Nahar, Riza Sulaiman, Azizah Jaafar, “Users’ Perception on Usability Aspects of a Braille Learning Mobile Application ‘mBRAILLE’, In book: Advances in Visual Informatics, 6th International Visual Informatics Conference, IVIC 2019, Bangi, Malaysia, November 19–21, 2019.
- Lutfun Nahar, Azizah Jaafar, Riza Sulaiman, “Mathematics Education and Accessible Technologies for visually impaired students in Bangladesh”, 5th International Visual Informatics Conference, Putrajaya, 28-30 November 2017.
- Lutfun Nahar, Azizah Jaafar, ABMA Kaish, “Mathematics Education for Blind: Current Scenario from the Blind Schools in Bangladesh”, 2nd International Conference on Special Education, Kuching, 31 July-02 August 2017.
- Lutfun Nahar, Azizah Jaafar, “Bangla Talking Calculator for visually impaired students in Bangladesh”, 4th International Visual Informatics Conference, Putrajaya, 17-19 November 2015.
- Lutfun Nahar, Azizah Jaafar, “Touch based braille technologies for visually impaired people in developing countries”, Visual Informatics International Seminar, Kuala Lumpur, 26-27 November 2014.
- Lutfun Nahar, Azizah Jaafar, Faheem Hussain, “DAISY: An Assistive Technology for Visually Impaired People in Bangladesh”, 2nd International Conference on Computer Engineering & Mathematical Sciences 2013 (ICCEMS 2013), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 5-6 December 2013.
- Lutfun Nahar, Azizah Jaafar, Faheem Hussain, “School Based Information Center for the Rural People in Bangladesh”, 2013 IEEE Student Conference on Research & Development, Putrajaya, 16-17 December 2013.
Dr Sharin Shajahan Naomi
Assistant Professor of Gender Studies
Dr. Sharin Shajahan Naomi has completed PhD from Murdoch University, Australia. The title of her thesis is “Tibetan Buddhism and Feminism in an In-between Space: A Creative-Critical Autoethnography in a Non-Western Woman’s Voice”. She was awarded the Australian Leadership Award 2010 for pursuing Masters of Arts at the Centre for Human Rights Education, Curtin University, Australia. She has completed Bachelors in Law from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. In the past, she has worked for the Research and Evaluation Division of BRAC, Empowerment of Law through Common People, ManusherJonno, Ain o Salish Kendra and the Centre for Human Rights Education, Curtin University, Australia
Research
Naomi has worked on research projects on topics including right to information, access to justice, human rights education, human rights lawyering, violence against women, rape, women empowerment, “ficto criticism”, religion and human rights, feminism, Buddhism and autoethngraphy.
Publications
Book Chapters
Book Chapter: Community Empowerment and Local Governance (Co author) in Driving Development: A Story of BRAC’s Evolution and Effectiveness. The University Press Limited, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2016
Book Chapter: Human Rights and Legal Aid Services (Co author) in Driving Development: A Story of BRAC’s Evolution and Effectiveness. The University Press Limited, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2016
Journal Articles
Indigenous dispossession continues apace in Bangladesh, Australian E Journal of Social and Political Debate. 21 October, 2010.
Video Productions
Video ( team member, script writing and role play): One love religion: Healing anger against Burqa in Australia, Perth, 2010. Australia.
Working Papers / Reports
Who is Human Rights Summer School? Paper published in ‘Human Rights Summer School Manual 2010’, December 20110, Empowerment of Law Through Common People : Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Revisiting Group Dynamic and Legal Rights, Working Paper, Issue 15, Nov 2010, Research and Evaluation Division, BRAC, Bangladesh.
State of Justice in Chittagong Hill Tracts: Exploring the Formal and Informal Justice Institutions of Indigenous Communities, Monograph Series No 44, January – 2011, Research and Evaluation Division, BRAC, Bangladesh .
Research Reports
Exploring Livelihoods of Plain Land Indigenous People in Bangladesh: Baseline Findings of Integrated Development Programme for indigenous People, Research report, Aug, 2014, BRAC, Bangladesh.
The Legal Challenges on the way to Judicial Remedy in Rape Cases: The Role of Human Rights and Legal Services Programme of BRAC, BRAC Research Report 2009.
Human Rights Lawyering: Expanding the Role of BRAC Panel Lawyers in Legal Empowerment, BRAC Research Report 2010.
Modifying Human Rights and Legal Education Course for Human Rights and Legal Services, BRAC, BRAC Report, December, 2011
Legal empowerment through human rights and legal education course: Observations and recommendations from field visits, BRAC Research Report, 2011.
Conference Publications
When the interference and guidance in research comes from Lord Buddha, Curtin Humanities Post Graduate Conference 2010, Australia.
Dialogue between Tibetan Buddhism and feminism in Buddhist women’s lives, Buddhism and Australia, Conference paper, International conference on Buddhism and Australia 2015.
Education
Ph.D. School of Education and Humanities, Murdoch University, Australia
Dr Mikio Oishi
Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies
Dr. Mikio Oishi is a specialist in Peace and Conflict Studies with BA (Kyoto), MA (Bradford) and PhD (Bradford). Before joining AUW in January 2020, he taught and/or researched at Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, University of Otago, University of Canterbury and Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. At AUW, he is teaching courses of International Relations and Peace and Conflict Studies with the Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE) Programme.
Research
Dr. Oishi’s research interests are Managing conflict in the Asia-Pacific region, The Asian approach to incompatibility management, and Defence diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific region. He is currently involved in the following projects: Conflict management in Southeast Asia and South Asia and Defence diplomacy in Southeast Asia and South Asia.
Publications
Edited Books:
Mikio Oishi (2019). Managing Conflicts in a Globalizing ASEAN: Incompatibility Management through Good Governance, Singapore: Springer.
Mikio Oishi (2016). Contemporary Conflicts in Southeast Asia: Towards a New ASEAN Way of Conflict Management, Singapore: Springer.
Book Chapters, etc.:
Mikio Oishi and Abdul Hai Julay (2021). “Brunei’s Relations with North Korea: Practising the Small State Approach and Minimal Pragmatism”, in Chiew-Ping Hoo, Shine Choi and Brian Bridges (eds.), Southeast Asia-DPRK relations: Drivers, Linkages, and Strategic Ambivalence, London: Routledge (forthcoming).
Mikio Oishi (2019). “Introduction: Current Conflicts in Southeast Asia and Their Management in the Region’s Globalization”, in Mikio Oishi (ed.), Managing Conflicts in a Globalizing ASEAN, Singapore: Springer, 2019, pp. 1-15.
Mikio Oishi (2019). “The Resurgence of the Kachin Conflict in the Burmese Way to Capitalism, in Mikio Oishi (ed.), Managing Conflicts in a Globalizing ASEAN, Singapore: Springer, pp. 47-63.
Mikio Oishi, Nguyen Minh Quang and Nguyen Van Minh (2019). “The Transformation of Ethnic Conflict in Vietnam: The Case of the Khmer Krom in the Mekong Delta”, in Mikio Oishi (ed.), Managing Conflicts in a Globalizing ASEAN, Singapore: Springer, pp. 65-88.
Nichan Singhaputargun and Mikio Oishi (2019). “In Search of Democracy with a National Character: Thailand’s Current Political Conflict”, in Mikio Oishi (ed.), Managing Conflicts in a Globalizing ASEAN, Singapore: Springer, pp. 117-141.
Suwit Laohasiriwong and Mikio Oishi (2019). “Managing the Mekong River Conflicts: Political Stability at the Cost of Local Communities”, in Mikio Oishi (ed.), Managing Conflicts in a Globalizing ASEAN, Singapore: Springer, 143-163.
Mikio Oishi (2019). “Conclusion: Emerging Patterns of Incompatibility Management in Southeast Asian Conflicts”, in Mikio Oishi (ed.), Managing Conflicts in a Globalizing ASEAN, Singapore: Springer, pp. 191-208.
Mikio Oishi (2016). “Can ASEAN Cope with ‘Human Insecurity’ in Southeast Asia?: In search of a new ASEAN Way”, in Paul J. Carnegie, Victor T. King and Zawawi Ibrahim (eds.), Human Insecurities in Southeast Asia, Singapore: Springer, pp. 103-119.
Mikio Oishi (2016). “Introduction: The ASEAN Way of Conflict Management under Challenge”, in Mikio Oishi (ed.), Contemporary Conflicts in Southeast Asia, Singapore: Springer, pp. 1-17.
Efri Yoni Baikoeni and Mikio Oishi (2016). “Ending a Long-Standing Intrastate Conflict through Internationalisation: The Case of Aceh in Indonesia”, in Mikio Oishi (ed.), Contemporary Conflicts in Southeast Asia, Singapore: Springer, pp. 19-44.
Nguyen Minh Quang and Mikio Oishi (2016). “Spiralling Insurgency in the Deep South: Thailand’s Unseen Road to Ethnic Conflict Management”, in Mikio Oishi (ed.), Contemporary Conflicts in Southeast Asia, Singapore: Springer, pp. 61-87.
Mikio Oishi and Nina Ghani (2016). “Developing a Way to Influence the Conduct of the Government in Intrastate Conflict: The Case of Myanmar”, in Mikio Oishi (ed.), Contemporary Conflicts in Southeast Asia, Singapore: Springer, pp. 89-110.
Mikio Oishi (2016). “The South China Sea Dispute: Formation of a Mediation Regime and Challenges for Management”, in Mikio Oishi (ed.), Contemporary Conflicts in Southeast Asia, Singapore: Springer, pp. 157-180.
Mikio Oishi (2016). “Conclusion: Is a New ASEAN Way of Conflict Management Emerging?”, in Mikio Oishi (ed.), Contemporary Conflicts in Southeast Asia, Singapore: Springer, pp. 181-196.
Journal Articles:
Mikio Oishi and Nguyen Minh Quang (2017). “Brothers in Trouble: China-Vietnam Territorial Disputes and Their Bilateral Approach to Conflict Management”, International Journal of China Studies, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 287-319.
Working Papers / Reports:
Mikio Oishi (2020). “The Unfinished Task of Reconciliation and an Emerging Order in East Asia”, A paper presented as a keynote speaker to the 2020 Vietnam International Conference of NGOs on History and Peace, Seoul, Republic of Korea, October 9-10, 2020.
Mikio Oishi (2017). “Absorbing External Shocks: ASEAN’s Approach to Regional Stability”, Working Paper No. 34, Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam. http://ias.ubd.edu.bn/assets/Files/WORKING.PAPER.SERIES.34.pdf
Mikio Oishi (2016). “Co-existing Differences: Towards an East Asian Way of Incompatibility Management”, Working Paper No.21, Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam. http://ias.ubd.edu.bn/assets/Files/WORKING.PAPER.SERIES.21.pdf
Education
Ph.D. Conflict Analysis and Resolution, University of Bradford, UK
M.A. Peace Studies, University of Bradford
B.A. Literature, Kyoto University, Japan
Dr Raghunandan Reddy
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Dr. Reddy joined AUW in August 2021. Teaching core courses in social sciences to undergraduate students. PhD Sociology from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. Primary research areas are gender and labor process theory. Doctoral research focused on examining the way work practices and managerial discourses reproduce and sustain a gendered organization using Institutional Ethnography research framework in an Information Technology services organization in India. Published three research papers in ABDC B ranked international journal. Two decades of prior experience in managing organizational change and process management initiatives in Information Technology services organizations in India, USA, South Africa, South Korea and UK.
Research
Gendering of Organizations
Gendered Labor Process
Labor Process Theory
Bullying and Sexual Harassment at Workplace
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Publications
- Reddy, R., Sharma, A. and Jha, M. (2019), “Hegemonic masculinity or masculine domination: Toward a comprehensive social theory of gender”, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 39 No. 3/4, pp. 296-310. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSSP-08-2018-0133
- Reddy, R. (2019), “Liberal gender equality and social difference: an institutional ethnography”, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 39 No. 9/10, pp. 680-694. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSSP-06-2019-0114
- Reddy, R., Sharma, A. and Jha, M. (2019), “Gendered labour process: Exploration in an information technology services organization in India”, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 39 No. 9/10, pp. 831-850. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSSP-07-2019-0144
- Reddy, R. (2022). Crossing the Gender Chasm for Productive Field Engagement. The Qualitative Report, 27(12), 2744-2760. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2022.5783
Dr Selim Reza
Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Development Studies; Program Director, In-Service Master of Education (M.Ed.); Director, AUW Summer School
Dr. Selim Reza is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Development Studies; Program Director, In-Service Master of Education (M.Ed.)
He teaches and researches theories and practices of development, inequalities, poverty, human trafficking, migration, modern slavery, forced labour, and precarious work. He has a PhD from Flinders University, Australia where he received rigorous first-hand training on learning and teaching practices in higher education and thus developed effective teaching skills through completing a one-year academic internship programme as a doctoral student with teaching responsibilities. His professional experience spans research, teaching and academic programme coordination. Before PhD, he was a researcher at the Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU) of the University of Dhaka. He previously taught at Flinders University, Australia and BRAC University, Bangladesh. He coordinated three Masters programmes at BRAC University, including Master of Development Studies (MDS), in his academic leadership role as Head of Academic Programmes at BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD). In 2013, he was awarded a Commonwealth Professional Fellowship at the University of Sussex, UK to develop his capacity for leadership in Southern-led research for development. He is an affiliated faculty at the Global Labour Research Centre (GLRC) of York University, Canada.
Teaching
SOCA2600 Introduction to Development Studies
DS3650 Theories and Practices of Development
PPE3070 Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery
Research Interests
Dr. Reza’s broad research area is social organisation of work for Asian migrant workers. His key research interests span labour migration, recruitment practices, precarious work and individualised employment relationship issues that are theoretically founded in the political economy of migrant labour and contingent employment practices. He is the author of the book “The Construction Precariat” published by Taylor & Francis (Routledge, UK) in 2021. He maintains an active research affiliation with the Global Labour Research Centre (GLRC) of York University, Canada and the Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change (CERIC) of the University of Leeds, UK. He started his career as a Field Researcher and subsequently became Research Associate and then Research and Communications Officer at the Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU) of the University of Dhaka. In these positions at RMMRU, he worked for many research projects including the UK Aid-funded multidisciplinary, multi-country Migrating out of Poverty Research Programme Consortium based in the University of Sussex, UK. This Consortium involved him in various research projects on poverty reducing and developmental impacts of migration in Africa and Asia. He conducted focus group discussions, household surveys and in-depth interviews, led a team of researchers, supervised research assistants in data analysis, and drafted many research reports, policy briefs, journal articles and conference and other presentations. He also wrote a policy background paper on the migration sector in Bangladesh as a consultant for the World Bank.
Project involvements:
Dr. Reza is involved in many student research projects at Asian University for Women. Under his supervision, seven students have successfully completed their senior thesis. Earlier he supervised and examined Masters theses and postgraduate internship reports at BRAC University, Bangladesh. He is currently involved in a research publication project on precariatisation, leave and return of Bangladeshi migrants in the Middle East.
Publications
BOOKS
The Construction Precariat: Dependence, Domination and Labour in Dhaka, Taylor & Francis (Routledge UK), 2021, 210 pp., ISBN 9780367355524.
The New Poverty of the Returnee Migrants, Taylor & Francis (Routledge UK), Forthcoming 2023.
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Deshingkar, P., Abrar, C. R., Sultana, M. T., Haque, K. N. H., & Reza, M. S. (2019). Producing ideal Bangladeshi migrants for precarious construction work in Qatar. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 45(14), 2723-2738.
Reza, S. (2016). Hyper-individualized recruitment: Rural-urban labour migration and precarious construction work in Bangladesh. Migration, Mobility, & Displacement, 2(2), 40-61.
(This publication was awarded the Flinders University Best Research Higher Degree Student Publications Award in February 2017)
BOOK CHAPTERS
“Bangladeshi migrants in the Middle East: Precariatisation, leave and return amid COVID-19” in an edited book to be published by Springer and Qatar University (Forthcoming 2022).
“Understanding the gaps: The national statistics and the household remittance flow” with Tasneem Siddiqui, Yar Mahbub Chowdhury and Saira Afrin in The other face of globalization: COVID-19, international labour migrants and left-behind families in Bangladesh, edited by Tasneem Siddiqui (Bangladesh Civil Society for Migrants & RMMRU, 2021), pp. 79-100, ISBN 9789843499776.
POLICY BRIEFS
Abrar, C. R., Deshingkar, P., Taslima Sultana, M., Haque, K. N. H. & Reza, M. S. (2017). Emic perspectives on brokering international migration for construction from Bangladesh to Qatar. Publisher: Migrating out of Poverty Consortium, University of Sussex, UK.
Abrar, C. R. & Reza, M. S. (2014). Internal Migrant Workers and the Construction Sector in Bangladesh: Tackling Informality and Exploitative Labour Practices. Publisher: Migrating out of Poverty Consortium, University of Sussex, UK.
Siddiqui, T. & Reza, M. S. (2014). Labour Migration from Bangladesh 2013: Achievements and Challenges. Publisher: RMMRU, Dhaka.
POLICY BACKGROUND PAPER
Vawda, A., & Sarr, L. R. (2013). Bangladesh education sector review: seeding fertile ground-education that works for Bangladesh (No. 86237, 204 pp.). Publisher: World Bank Group, Washington, D.C. (contributed a section on labour migration and skills)
EMPIRICAL RESEARCH REPORTS
Srivastava, R. S., Sutradhar, R., Abrar, C. R., Reza, M. S., Adhikari, J., & Gurung, G. (2015). Internal Labour Migration to the Construction Sector in South Asia and its Impact on Poverty and Wellbeing. Publisher: Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development (KNOMAD) of the World Bank Group: Washington, D.C.
Abrar, C. R., Rajan, S. I., Ruhunage, L. K. & Siddiqui, T. (2014) Institutional Strengthening of the Office of Labour Attaché: Research Findings from Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka. Publisher: University of Sussex, UK (I assisted the lead researchers and drafted some substantial sections of the research report on Bangladesh).
The Asia Foundation (2013). Labour Migration trends and Patterns: Bangladesh, India, and Nepal 2013. Publisher: The Asia Foundation, Nepal (I collected primary data, led research team, and assisted Professor C. R. Abrar in data analysis and report writing).
CDKN (2012). Climate Change-induced Migration in Bangladesh. Publisher: Sussex Centre for Migration Research, UK and Climate & Development Knowledge Network (CDKN). (I assisted Professor Tasneem Siddiqui in preparing the literature review section)
RMMRU (2010). Targeting Good Governance: Incorporation of Migration in the 6th Five-Year Plan. Publisher: RMMRU, University of Dhaka (I assisted Professor Tasneem Siddiqui in preparing the draft policy paper)
MAGAZINE ARTICLES
Reza, M. S. (2014). Global Food Business and Multinational Companies, Publisher: Sangskriti, Dhaka, 2014.
Reza, M. S. (2013). Climate Change Induced Migration: Future Challenges and Opportunities for Bangladesh, Publisher: The Foreign Affairs Insights and Reviews (FAIR), Issue no. 4; Volume no. 1; Dhaka.
NEWSPAPER ARTCILES IN BANGLA
Reza, M. S. (2014). Construction work: recruitment and precariousness; The Daily Bhorer Kagoj, 28 November 2014.
Reza, M. S. (2014). Globalisation or precarious labour?; The Daily Bhorer Kagoj; 11 December 2014.
Reza, M. S. (2014). The need for good recruitment practise to tackle irregular migration through sea; The Daily Bhorer Kagoj; 18 December 2014.
Reza, M. S. (2014). The need for transparent and realistic recruitment framework; The Daily Bonik Barta; 18 December 2014.
Reza, M. S. (2014). Rethinking migration; The Daily Bonik Barta; 28 July 2014.
Education
PhD in Migration and Labour Exploitation, Flinders University, Australia
MSS in International Relations, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh (1st class, 1st position)
BSS in International Relations, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Dr Ayan Roy
Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics
I am an Assistant Professor in 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
- Advance Bioinformatics with Programming [COURSE CODE: BINF4000]
- BIOL 1100: BIOLOGY I- LECTURE
- 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:
- 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)
- 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 Bioinformatics
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 P Mosae Selvakumar
Associate Professor in Chemistry
Research
Dr.Mosae’s research interests include synthesis of small bioactive molecules and Supramolecular architectures, Molecular recognition/Machines, development of Sensor molecules for anions/cations/ small molecules in Water, water treatment, Chemo/Biosensors, Host-guest Chemistry, DNA binding-Drug delivery using Nano particles-material chemistry, Antibacterial and wound healing molecules, Photochemistry, Metallo-Supramolecular material chemistry-Helicate, MOF, flame retardant materials, Green chemistry, Phytochemistry, Value Added products from Palmyrah palm, Pollution control, Environmental conservation, Science for self-reliant life style/Sustainable development, grassroots innovations, and Social entrepreneurship.
Project involvements
Involved in activities like developing various bioactive small organic molecules, nanomaterials(Ag, Au, ZnO, LDH and and Fe2O3)coordination complexes based receptors-analytical techniques for sensing anions, cations and small molecules in water/biosystems by internally and externally-funded projects
Grants Obtained
DST-SERB-India fast track young scientist award Project (INR 24,56,000) entitled “Design, Synthesis and characterization of novel supramolecular Helicates for their application in molecular recognition”
Publications
Book Chapters
- P.Mosae Selvakumar, E. Suresh and P. S. Subramanian. Self-assembled Cu (II) MOFs with N, O donors mixed ligands, Nano Biomaterials, Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt. Ltd, pp. 215–220 (2012), ISBN 978-93-82563-37-2
- V. Sherly Arputha Kiruba, Arun Dakshinamurthy and P. Mosae Selvakumar. Silver-Activated Charcoal Nanocomposite For Microbial Decontamination of Water, Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt. Ltd, Applications of Nano Materials: Electronics, Energy and Environment, pp. 345–352 (2012),ISBN 978-93-82563-35-8
- Sophia Selvarajan, Arun Dakshinamurthy , V. Madhu, I M V Enoch and P. Mosae Selvakumar, Dye Sensitized Solar Cell using Eco-friendly Natural Dyes, Sustainable technologies in health care and environment; pp 52-63, ISBN 9788190387101
Journal Articles(selected publications)
- G. Tamil Selvan, V.Chitra, R. Tamil Selvan Israel V.M.V. Enoch, P. Mosae Selvakumar, On / Off Fluorescent Chemosensor for Selective Detection of Divalent Iron and Copper Ions: Molecular Logic Operation and Protein Binding. ACS omega, 2018, 3, 7985-7992.
- Govindaraj Tamil Selvan, Sumathi Poomalai, Sivaraj Ramasamy, Paulraj Mosae Selvakumar, Israel V Muthu Vijayan Enoch, Sara Gracia Lanas, and Andrea Melchior, Differential Metal Ion Sensing by an Antipyrine Derivative in Aqueous and β-Cyclodextrin Media: Selectivity Tuning by β-Cyclodextrin, Analytical Chemistry, 2018, 90,22,13607-13615
- Rahul Kaushik, Rahul Sakla, Amrita Ghosh, G Tamil Selvan, P Mosae Selvakumar, D Amilan Jose, Selective Detection of H2S by Copper Complex Embedded in Vesicles through Metal Indicator Displacement Approach, ACS Sens., 2018, 3 (6), pp 1142–1148
- V.Chitra, P. Mosae Selvakumar, G. Tamil Selvan, Israel V.M.V. Enoch, V. Srinivasadesikan, Shyi-Long Lee ,The first highly selective turn “ON” fluorescent sensor for vanadyl (VO2+) ion: DFT studies and Molecular logic gate behavior, New Journal of Chemistry (2018), 42 (5), 3833-3839
- Tamil Selvan, V.Chitra, Israel V.M.V. Enoch, P. Mosae Selvakumar: Development of a fluorescent chemosensor towards sensing and separation of Mg 2+ ions in chlorophyll and hard water. New Journal of Chemistry (2018), 42, 902 – 909
For more publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=j_V2TMIAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
Working Papers / Reports/patents
- A.J.A. Ranjit singh, R. Mariselvam, A. Usha Raja Nanthini, P. Mosae selvakumar. 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
- P. Mosae Selvakumar, Arun Dakshinamurthy and S. Deena. Method of making antimicrobial fabric using silver nanoparticles, banana sap and natural dye, Indian Patent Application Number-3774/CHE/2014
- P. Mosae Selvakumar, A.J.A. Ranjit singh, R. Mariselvam,. Development of eco – friendly wound healing bandage from palmyra palm leaf secretions, Indian Patent Application Number-4011/CHE/2015.
- C. Sureshkumar, C.Mariappan, A.Palavesm,P. Mosae Selvakumar. Method for the removal of highly resistant Pseudomonas 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.
Education
Ph.D inChemistry, Bhavnagar University/ Central Salt &Marine Chemicals Research Institute (CSIR), Gujarat.India
- Title: Studies on Supramolecular Helical Compounds: Synthesis, Structural Investigation and Functional Application.
*Qualified Tamilnadu state Eligibility test (TNSET) for Lecturership conducted by University grant Commission, India
M. Sc, M.Phil inPsychology, Tamilnadu Open University, Chennai, Tamilnadu,
B. Sc, M. Sc in Chemistry, Manonmaniam Sundaranar university, Tamilnadu, India.
D.T Ed inEducation, Government Teacher Training Institute (NCERT),Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu.
Dr Sayed Mohammed Nazim Uddin
Associate Professor of Environmental Science; Head of Science and Math
Research
Professor Sayed Mohammed Nazim Uddin’s research interests include wastewater/greywater treatment and management; Global Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) and Health; solid waste management; sustainable sanitation; resource and energy recovery; community-based research; social innovation and water resources management; and disaster/hazard risk reduction.
Publications
2018
- Gutberlet, J. and Uddin, S.M.N. (2018) Household waste and health risks affecting waste pickers and the environment in low- and middle-income countries, International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, DOI:10.1080/10773525.2018.1484996
- Uddin, S.M.N. and Gutberlet, J. (2018) Livelihood and health status of informal recyclers in Mongolia, Resource, Conservation and Recycling, 134, 1-9.
- Cheng, S. Li, Z., Uddin, S.M.N., Mang, HP, Zhou, X, Zhang, J., Zheng, L. and Zhang, L. (2018) Toilet revolution in China, Journal of Environmental Management, 216, 347-356.
2017
- Zhou, X., Li, Y., Li, Z., Xi, Y., Uddin, S.M.N and Zhang, Y. (2017) Investigation on microbial inactivation and urea decomposition in human urine during thermal storage, Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development. 7 (3) 378-386.
- Jubayer, A., Uddin, S.M.N., Nasiruddin, S.M., Ergun, D. Adamowski, J. (2017) Water, sanitation and hygiene for small shopkeepers: a perspective from Bangladesh, JSM Environmental Science & Ecology, 5(1), 1041.
- Uddin, S.M.N. 2016 Exposure of pediatric population to global WASH-borne hazards, Mathews Journal of Pediatrics, 1(1), 5.
- Rahman, M., Uddin, S.M.N., Rahman, M.M. and Yokoyama, K. (2017) Impact of Cyclone SIDR on Rural Community in Bangladesh: A Socio-economic Analysis. Nova Science Publishing.
2016
- Uddin, S.M.N., Li, Z., Ulbrich, T., Mang, H. P., Adamowski, J. F, Ryndin, R. (2016) Household Greywater Treatment in water-stressed regions in cold climates using ‘Ice-Block Units’: Perspective from the coldest capital in the world. Journal of Cleaner Production. 133, 1312-1317.
- Uddin, S.M.N. Tempel, A., Adamowski, J. F., Lapegue, J., Li, Z., and Mang, H.P. (2016) Exploring alternative sources of funding for deploying sustainable sanitation technologies and services in Mongolia. International Journal of Water Resource Development. 881-894.
- Uddin, S.M.N., Li, Z., Adamowski, J. F, Ulbrich, T., Mang, H. P., Ryndin, R., Norvanchig, J., Lapegue, J. Wriege-Bechthold, A. and Cheng, S. (2016) Feasibility of ‘Greenhouse System’ for Household Greywater Treatment in Nomadic-Cultured Communities in Peri-Urban Ger Areas of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia: Way to Reduce Greywater-Borne Hazards and Vulnerabilities. Journal of Cleaner Production. 114, 431-442.
- Uddin, S.M.N., Vicky Walters, Gaillard, J.C., Hridi, S.M. and McSherry, A. (2016) Water, sanitation and hygiene for homeless people. Journal of Water and Health. 14(1), 47-51.
2015
- Cheng, S., Zhao, M., Wang, Z., Yun, Y. and Uddin, S. M. N. (2015) Study on the effect of iron- carbon filter on simultaneous nitrogen and phosphorus removal during short-cut nitrification and denitrification, Chemical Engineering Transactions, 46, 805- 810.
- Uddin, S.M.N., Li, Z., Ibrahim, M. B., Lapegue, J., Adamowski, JF., Donati, P. F., Huba, EM, Mang, HP. Avirmed, B. and Cheng, S. (2015) Evaluation of ‘Closed-loop sanitation system’ in a country with cold climate: a case from peri-urban Ger areas of Mongolia. Environment and Urbanization. 27(2), 1-18.
- Yun, Y., Zhou, X., Li, Z., Uddin, S.M.N. and Bai, X. (2015) Comparative research on phosphorus removal of pilot-scale vertical flow constructed wetlands using steel slag and modified steel slag as substrates. Water Science and Technology. 7(71), 996-1003.
- Mahmood, Ibrahim. B., Li. Z., Uddin, S. M. N., Mang, HP., and Germer, J.(2015) Co- composting of fecal matter in Mongolia using two different technologies. Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, 5(1), 165-171.
2014
- Uddin, S.M.N., Li, Z., Mang, HP., Ulbrich, T., Schubler, A., Rheinstein, E., Huba, E.M., and Lapegue, J. (2014) Opportunities and challenges for greywater treatment and reuse in Mongolia: Lessons learnt from piloted systems, Journal of Water Reuse and Desalination, 4(3)182-193.
- Uddin, S.M.N., Li, Z., Mang, H. Huba, E.M., and Lapegue, J. (2014) A strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats analysis on integrating safe water supply and sustainable sanitation systems. Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, 4(3), 437-448.
- Uddin, S.M.N., Li, Z., Gaillard, J. C., Tedoff, PF., Lapegue, J, Mang, HP., Huba, E.M. Kummel, O., and Rheinstein, E. (2014) Exposure to WASH-borne hazards: A scoping study on peri-urban Ger areas in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Habitat International, 44, 403-411.
- Diang, N., Li, Z., Zhou, X., Hu A., Bai, X. and Uddin, S. M. N. (2014) Feasibility assessment of LID concept for storm water management in China through SWOT analysis. Journal of Southeast University, 30 (2), 225-229.
- Uddin, S.M.N., Muhandiki, and Sakai, A., Mamun, A. A., and Hridi, S. M. (2014) Socio-cultural acceptance of appropriate technology: identifying and prioritizing barriers for widespread use of the Urine Diversion Toilets in Rural Muslim Communities of Bangladesh. Technology in Society, 38, 32-39.
Conference Proceedings/Presentations/Talks (2013-2018)
- Uddin, M.N. and Gutberlet, J. Livelihoods and health status of waste pickers in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Seminar, Center for Asia Pacific Initiatives, University of Victoria, Canada. March 2018.
- Uddin, M.N. Sustainable sanitation technologies in the coldest capital in the world, Sustainable Seminar, Green Civil Engineering, University of Victoria. March 2018, Canada.
- Uddin, S. M. N. Social story of a multi-cultural toilet, IDEAFEST-Ideas That Can Change Everything, March 5-10, 2018, University of Victoria, Canada.
- Uddin, M.N. Rapid assessment of health and livelihoods status of waste pickers in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Keynote Speaker, Workshop on Waste and Waste Pickers, Stamford University Bangladesh, August 24, 2017, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
- Uddin, S.M.N. and Gutberlet, J. Informal Recyclers in the Long Winter Cold Country with Fast- Growing Economy, Research Seminar, Center for Asia Pacific Initiatives, University of Victoria, March 13, 2017, Victoria, BC, C
- Uddin, M.N. Waste and lives of waste pickers in Mongolia, International Interactive Workshop on Waste and Lives of Waste Pickers in Mongolia, Key Note Speaker and Co-Organizer, October 7, 2016, Royal International University, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
- Uddin, M.N., Informal recyclers in the coldest capital in the world (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia), International Symposium on Waste Management, October 2016, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
- Uddin, M.N. et al. Degradation of river water quality around Dhaka City, Bangladesh. International Environmental Technology Conference, Beijing, October 2016, China.
- Uddin, S.M.N., et.al Degradation of water quality of peripheral rivers of Dhaka city, Bangladesh: Health hazards perspectives, International Conference on Environmental Technology, Beijing, 21-24 October 2016, Beijing, China.
- Uddin et al.Traditional closed-loop-sanitation-systems in peri-urban and rural Afghanistan: a SWOT Analysis, 38th WEDC International Conference, Loughborough University, UK, 2015.
- Uddin, S.M.N. Sustainable sanitation technologies for vulnerable peri-urban communities in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, International Conference on ‘WASH Innovations and Future Scenarios for Mongolia, 22-23 June 2015, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
- Uddin et al. Fecal sludge management in Mongolia: Different approaches to recover resources and reduce risks. 7th World Water Forum, 12-17 April, Daegu & Gyeongbuk, Rep. of Korea 2015. Presentation and Panelist.
- Uddin, S.M.N., Li, Z., Mang, HP, Lapegue, J. Sustainable sanitation for vulnerable peri-urban Mongolia: Ways to reduce WASH-borne hazards and vulnerability. The 2nd IWA Malaysia Young Water Professionals Conference 2015, 17-20 March 2015, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
- Uddin, S.M.N., Li, Z., Lapegue, J., Adamowski, J.F. Socio-cultural capital and corporate WASH responsibility: Ways towards sustainable water supply and sanitation, 1st Specialist Conference on Municipal Water Management and Sanitation in Developing Countries-From Toilet to Source-Accelerating Uptake of Sustainable and Integrated Wastewater Management Solutions. 2-4 December 2014, AIT, Bangkok, Thailand.
- Uddin, S.M.N. Socio-cultural and legal aspects of fecal compost: Global practices and practical case from Mongolia, WASH & FSL International Conference, 22-26 September 2014, Machakos, Kenya.
- Uddin, S.M.N., Rahman, M. M. and Hussain, M. A. Degradation of river water quality around Dhaka City: An anthropogenic disaster. 2014 Bangladesh Summit for Sustainable Development, 16-19 August, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
- Uddin, S.M.N. Li, Z., Gaillard, J. C., Mang H.P., Lapegue, J., and Hridi, S. M. Water, sanitation and hygiene for homeless and nomadic people: perspectives from Bangladesh and Mongolia. 2014 Bangladesh Summit for Sustainable Development, 16-19 August, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
- Jubayer, A., Uddin, S.M.N. and Ergun, S. Water, sanitation and hygiene for small shopkeepers: A perspective from Bangladesh. 2014 Bangladesh Summit for Sustainable Development, 16-19 August, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
- Uddin, S.M.N. Li, Z. and Lapegue, J. Exploring funding for sustainable sanitation in Mongolia: Perceptions from communities and stakeholders. 37th WEDC International Conference on Sustainable Water and Sanitation Services for All in a Fast Changing World, 15–19 September, 2014, Hanoi, Vietnam.
- Uddin, S.M.N., Li, Z., Ibrahim, M. B., Mang, HP, Lapegue, J., Cheng, S. (2014) A perspective evaluation of ‘Closed-loop-sanitation-system’ in a country with cold climate: a case from Mongolia. 12th IWA Conference on Small Water & Wastewater Systems & 4th Specialized Conference on Resource Oriented Sanitation 2-4 November 2014, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.
- Uddin, S.M.N., Li, Z., Mang, H. P., Adamowski, J. F, Ulbrich, T., Ryndin, R., Norvanchig, J., and Cheng, S. Greywater treatment in peri-urban nomadic communities: A case study on ‘greenhouse system’ in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. 12th IWA Conference on Small Water & Wastewater Systems & 4th Specialized Conference on Resource Oriented Sanitation 2-4 November 2014, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.
- Cheng, S., Li, Z., Mang, HP., Uddin S.M.N. and Huba, EM. Resource oriented sanitation in rural China: Strategy and implementation. 12th IWA Conference on Small Water & Wastewater Systems & 4th Specialized Conference on Resource Oriented Sanitation 2-4 November 2014, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.
- Cheng, S., Li, Z., Mang, HP., Huba, EM. and Uddin S.M.N. What could be China give to and take from other countries for development of biogas industry? Lessons learned from each other. International Conference on Progress in Biogas III, 10-11 September 2014. Haus der Wirtschaft-Stuttgart, Germany.
- Uddin, S.M.N., Li, Z., Mang, H. P., Adamowski, J. F, Ryndin, R., Ulbrich, T. and Lapegue, J. (2014) An assessment of the feasibility of Household Greywater Treatment in water stressed regions in cold climates using ‘Ice-Block Units’: A case in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. IWA 14th International Conference on Wetland Systems for Water Pollution Control, 12-16 October 2014, Shanghai, China.
- Uddin, S.M.N., Li, Z. Mang, H. and Lapegue, J. (2014) Sustainable sanitation towards eco-city development. Second Symposium on Urban Mining, 19-21 May 2014, Bergamo, Italy.
- Uddin, S.M.N., Li, Z. and Mang, H. P. (2013) Progress on sustainable sanitation for vulnerable peri-urban population in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. WASH Forum, Action Contre la Faim (ACF) Mongolia, 26-27 September 2013, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
- Ibrahim, B. M, Uddin, S.M.N., Li, Z., and Mang, H.P. (2013) Human excreta collection, treatment (composting) and use in peri-urban ger areas of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. WASH Forum, Action Contre la Faim(ACF) Mongolia, 26-27 September 2013, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
- Ibrahim, B. M., Uddin, S.M.N., Li, Z., and Mang, H. P. (2013) ACF Eco-Toilets: A sustainable way to improve sanitation ger areas of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. WASH Forum, Action Contre la Faim(ACF) Mongolia, 26-27 September 2013, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
- Ibrahim, B. M., Li, Z., Mang, H. P., Zhang, Y. and Uddin, S.M.N. (2013) Night soil composting as common approach to sustainable sanitation: A review. 2013 Beijing International Environmental Technology Symposium, 20-23 October, Beijing, China.
- Uddin, S.M.N., Li, Z., Gaillard, J.C., Mang, H.P., Huba, E.M., Tedoff, P.F., Lapegue, J, Kummel, O. and Rheinstein, E. (2013) WASH-Borne vulnerability: A scoping study on peri-urban ger areas in Mongolia. 2013 Beijing International Environmental Technology Symposium, 20-23 October, Beijing, China.
- Uddin, S.M.N., Li, Z., Mang, HP., Ulbrich, T., Schubler, A., Rheinstein, E. and Huba, E.M., (2013). Opportunities and challenges of greywater treatment and reuse in peri-urban ger areas of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. 11th IWA Conference on Small Water & Wastewater Systems and Sludge Management, 28-30 October, 2013, Harbin, China.
- Diang, N., Li, Z., Zhou, X., Hu A., Bai, X. and Uddin, S.M.N. (2013) Feasibility assessment of LID concept for stormwater management in China through SWOT analysis. 16th IRCS Conference & International Symposium on Rainwater Utilization, 1-4 July 2013, Beijing/Nanjing, China.
- Uddin, S.M.N., Li, Z., Mang, H. Huba, E.M., Lapegue, J. and Eyrard, J. (2013). Sustainable sanitation for vulnerable peri-urban population in Mongolia: An introduction of a multi-lateral cooperation project. Proceedings of 12th JADE Conference, Japan Association of Drainage and Environment, 9 November 2013 Tokyo, Japan.
- Uddin, S.M.N., Li, Z., Mang, H. Huba, E.M. and Lapegue, J. (2013). A holistic approach to integrate safe water supply and sustainable sanitation system: a SWOT analysis. International Conference on Water Research, 20-23 January 2013, Singapore.
Book Review
- Rural resources for self-employment by Mosharref Hossain Bhuyan, Technology Development and Implementation Agency (Techno DIA), Dhaka. (In Bangla Language)
- Rivers in Bangladesh by Mosharref Hossain Bhuyan, Technology Development and Implementation Agency (Techno DIA), Dhaka. (In Bangla Language)
Education
P.D.F. in Geography, University of Victoria, Canada
Ph.D. in Environmental Science & Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China.
M.Sc. in Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Japan
NUGELP Certificate in Water and Waste Management, Nagoya University Global Environmental Leaders Program, Japan
M.Sc. in Water Resources Development, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh
Int. Diploma in Community Development, Asian Social Institute, Philippines
Int. Course in Environmental Accounting and Management, Beijing Normal University, China
B.Sc. (First Class Honors) in Environmental Sciences, National University, Bangladesh
Dr Xingkui Wang
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Xingkui Wang is Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Program Philosophy, Politics & Economics at AUW since August 2021. He has previously taught Philosophy and Art History at the Mongolia International University in Ulaanbaatar. Dr. Wang got his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Munich in 2018, where he focused on German Idealism, especially the Philosophy of Hegel. Before that he has studied Art History in Bremen, Germany and Maryland, USA.
Research
Dr. Wang’s research focuses on Aesthetics, German Idealism, and Comparative Philosophy. He is currently working on the Aesthetics of Hegel, examining the essential experience of being finite in the infinite mediated through art. As for comparative Philosophy Dr. Wang concerns with the issue of what enables the dialogue between different philosophic traditions possible.
Publications
Journal Articles
“A Critical Examination of the Dialectic in Hegel and Laozi” (in Chinese). In: Journal of Comparative Philosophy and Comparative Culture, No. 13 (2019), Pages 83-93. The Journal is published by College of Philosophy, Wuhan University.
Working Papers / Reports
„Hegels Kritik an der Seelenwanderung“ (Hegel’s Critique of Reincarnation). Talk at the biennial International Hegel-Conference of the International Hegel Society, University of Tampere, June 2018. The revised Paper has been submitted in September 2018 to the Hegel Society and will be published in the Hegel Yearbook (Hegel-Jahrbuch) 2020.
„Das Subjektive als das Übergreifende: Hegels Dialektik der Subjektivität“ (The Subject as that of the Grasping: Hegel’s Dialectic of Subjectivity). Talk at the biennial Symposium of the Swiss Philosophical Society (The theme of the Symposium war: What is Spirit?), University of Basel, September 2018.
Mr Mohammad Masudur Rahman
Instructor of Performing Arts
Research
Mr. Rahman researches American slave literature and how pantomime informs body language in everyday life.
Publications
Translations:
Gibran, Kahlil. A Tear and a Smile. Translated by Mohammad Masudur Rahman, 2017.
Education
M.A. English, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh
B.A. English, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Humanities
Dr Deepasri Baul
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Humanities
Deepasri Baul has joined as Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Humanities. She will teach courses in the colonial history of modern south Asia and academic writing in the Humanities. She is a former postdoctoral fellow at the Indian Institute of Sciences Education and Research, Mohali. In the past, she has taught in the University of Delhi and worked as a researcher at the Max Weber Stiftung, India. She has a PhD in History from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Her academic interests include modern south Asia, urban studies, religious politics and histories of capitalism in the Global South.
Teaching
LCSA1082: How We Got Here: South Asia Under British Colonialism
WSEM2001-4: Writing Seminar II
Research
Modern south Asia, urban studies, religious politics, histories of capitalism in the Global South.
Project involvements
Popular print cultures in contemporary North India
Geo-spatial mapping of the history of Delhi’s neighbourhoods.
Grants Obtained
2022 Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities
2020 Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in IISER, Mohali
2015 Charles Wallace India Trust Research Grant
2015 Foreign Travel Grant by the Indian Council of Historical Research
Book Chapters, etc.
‘Audhyogik Kranti’ in Devesh Vijay ed., Adhunik Europe Ka Itihas Ayam Evam Dishaen, Delhi, Hindi Madhyam Karyanvaya Nideshalaya, 2010 (ISBN: 9789380172323)
Journal Articles
‘The Improbability of a Temple: Hindu Mobilisation and Urban Space in the Delhi Shiv Mandir Agitation of 1938’, Studies in History (2020): 0257643020956624.
Other Publications
‘Lands of the Gods: The colonial roots of the Ayodhya verdict’, The Caravan, Vol. 12, Issue 1, January 2020
Dr Francesca Pierini
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Humanities
Francesca Pierini has recently joined the university as an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Humanities. She will teach courses in Women’s Studies, Literature, and Academic Writing in the Humanities. She is a former Adjunct Lecturer at the English Department of University of Basel, as well as Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Her academic interests include Cultural Studies, Anglophone Literary Representations of Italian Culture, and the Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Romance Novel.
Teaching
Critical Theory, Women’s Studies, Anglophone Literature, Academic Writing in the Humanities.
Research interests
Cultural Studies, Anglophone Literary Representations of Italian Culture, the Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Romance Novel
Grants Obtained
2022 Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities
2018 The Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference Postdoctoral Bursary
2018 Kathleen Gilles Seidel Grant
2018–2019 Academia Sinica Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Book Chapters in Edited Volumes
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. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. Forthcoming in January 2023.
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).
2020 “What We Bring to the World: Narrative-Making as Hermeneutical Practice in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi.” In Critical Insights: Life of Pi, edited by Ádám T. Bogár, 188–202. Amenia, NY: Salem Press/Grey House Publishing.
Journal Articles
2023 “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. Forthcoming.
2022 “Discursive Intertextuality, Parody, and Mise en Abyme in A.S. Byatt’s Short Stories.” Cultural Intertexts 12 (2022): 123-139.
2022 “Metagenre and Romance: A Response to Burkhard Niederhoff.” Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate 31 (2022): 100–111.
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.
2020 “Olive Skin; Chocolate Eyes: The Legacy of The Sheik on Descriptive Patterns of the Italian Romantic Hero in Harlequin Short Contemporaries.” The Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9 (2020): 1–19. Special issue dedicated to E.M. Hull’s The Sheik.
2020 “The Imponderable Bloom: E.M. Forster’s ‘The Machine Stops’ on Isolation, Social Distancing, and Online Lecturing.” The CEA Critic 82, vol. 3 (2020): 285–289. Special Issue “Living the Teaching Life in a Time of Covid-19.”
2020 “Multitudes of Otherness: Italian and Indian Crowds in E.M. Forster’s Where Angels Fear to Tread and A Passage to India.” Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies 17 (2019): 75–99.
2020 “‘He Looks like He’s Stepped Out of a Painting’: The Idealization and Appropriation of Italian Timelessness through the Experience of Romantic Love.” Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9 (2020): 1–16.
2019 “Anglophone Popular Narratives of Italian Otherness and the Politics of Orientalizing Southern Europe.” Via: Voices in Italian Americana 30, no. 2 (2019): 19–32.
2018 “Such is the Working of the Southern Mind: A Postcolonial Reading of E.M. Forster’s Italian Narratives.” Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies 16 (2017–2018): 27–54.
Report
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.
Pre-Undergraduate Programs Directors and Registrar
Matthew Glotfelter
Director of Pre-Undergraduate Programs
Senior Instructor of English
MS, Linguistics
CELTA
Rehana Khan
Director of General Studies
MA, English Literature
Master Trainer ELT
John Remarek
Pre-Undergraduate Registrar
BA, Psychology
TEFL Certificate
Education
B.A. Psychology, New York University, USA
TESOL Certificate, Trinity College, London, UK
Pre-Undergraduate Program and Subject Area Coordinators
Sharmin Rahmatullah
Reading & Writing: Senior Instructor
MA, ELT
CELTA
Before joining AUW, she worked in BRAC Institute of Languages (BIL), BRAC University, for a year as a lecturer. Prior to that she was an English Language Instructor in London English Academy (LEA), Malaysia.
In June 2016 she passed CELTA under University of Cambridge.
I have a BA Hons in English Literature, followed by MA ELT from East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Education
B.A. English Literature, East West University, Bangladesh
M.A. English Language Teaching (ELT), East West University, Bangladesh
CELTA QCF Level 5 English Language Teaching Qualification, University
of Cambridge
Abdul Wahid
Reading & Writing: Instructor
Master of Education (TESOL)
Cambridge CELTA
Wahid has four years of experience in teaching English at tertiary level. Before joining AUW as a Language Instructor, he taught Language and Linguistics at the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) and at IUBAT – International University of Business Agriculture and Technology, Dhaka. He completed his Master of Education (TESOL) from the University of South Australia (UniSA), with a thesis in refugee education. Wahid also has a CELTA from the British Council. Previously, he worked as an Interpreter in Africa under the United Nations for some time. During his University years in Adelaide, he attended the evening school of ‘Ann Peter’s School of Acting’ which sparked his interest in psychology of human behavior and communication. His research interest includes inner speech and bilingualism, psychology of language, education psychology and the like.
Master’s Thesis:
“Factors that affect the academic performance of African refugee students at UniSA”
Conference Paper:
- Wahid, “Learning and Education – shouldn’t they be same? : A conceptual review”. In the pursuit of Quality in Higher Education: Challenges Ahead, (2019).
Working Paper:
“Intervention of Self-limiting L1 Inner Speech during L2 Presentations: A Study of Bangla-English Late Bilinguals”
Supervised Theses:
Postgraduate
- Face to Face and Online ELT Classes: A Comparative Study
- Academic Self-concept and Academic Performance: A Co-relational Study
- Role of L1 in English Language Learning and Teaching: A Perspective of Schools in Bangladesh
- Challenges in Adapting Reading Materials in an ELT Class: A Case Study
Undergraduate
- The Role of Previous Knowledge in Reading Comprehension
- Individual Learner Differences and Speaking Performance : A Case Study
- Persuasive Techniques used in English Bulletins in Bangladeshi Television Channels
- First Language Acquisition of A Three Year Old Bangladeshi Child : A Case Study
Conducted Workshops:
“Your Language Thoughts, Your Language Reality”; 2nd September 2019; University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) Auditorium.
“You Are Who You Think You Are”; 3rd April, 2019; University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) Auditorium.
“Self-development and Learning”; 13th November, 2018; University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) Auditorium.
Kausar Ferdous
ESL Intensive: Senior Instructor
MA, English Literature
MA, ELT
Ms. Ferdous conducts research on tertiary level curriculum development.
Publications
Articles:
Kausar Ferdous, Native Language Interference: A Case Study, Research Journal of English Language and Literature (RJELAL), Volume: 3, Issue: 4,2015, Page: 595-602
Md. Abu Saleh Nizam Uddin & Kausar Ferdous, Thakur’s Representation of the Farmers: Reluctance, Rejection and Opposition—Journal SARJANA, University of Malaya, Malaysia. Volume: 29, Number- 2, Page -83-95, 2014
Education
M.A. ELT, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh
M.A. English, National University, Chittagong College, Bangladesh
B.A. English, National University, Chittagong College, Bangladesh
Homayra Binta Hafiz Silvee
Listening & Speaking: Instructor
Education
MA, Literature in English
Teaching
Presentation Skills
Debate and Public Speaking
Md Noman Udin
Mathematics: Senior Instructor
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)
Umme Aymun Siddiqua
Computer Studies: Instructor
MA, Computer Science
Umme Aymun Siddiqua received B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering from the International Islamic University Chittagong, Bangladesh in 2016 and her M.Eng. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan in 2019. Currently, she is serving as a Junior Instructor in Computer Science at Asian University for Women. Her research interests include natural language processing, multimodal opinion mining and knowledge discovery from social media data especially stance detection, sentiment analysis, emotion analysis, and hate speech detection using deep learning. She is the author or co-author of several articles in journals, conferences and research workshop contributions and presented her research at national and international conferences in the USA and China. She has received recognition for her excellent academic performance and research activities, including Merit-based Scholarship, Monbukagakusho Honors Scholarship and Best Paper Award.
Courses Teach:
Introduction to Computing and Programming
CS50’s Introduction to Computer Science by Harvard University (Lab)
Research Interests:
Natural Language Processing
Social Media Analysis
Multimodal Opinion Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Computational Linguistics
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Journal Articles
Tweet Stance Detection using Multi-Kernel Convolution and Attentive LSTM Variants
Umme Aymun Siddiqua, Abu Nowshed Chy, and Masaki Aono
IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems (IEICE TOIS), Vol.E102-D, No.12, pp.2493-2503, December 2019.
Exploiting Transfer Learning and Hand-Crafted Features in a Unified Neural Model for Identifying Actionable Informative Tweets
Abu Nowshed Chy, Umme Aymun Siddiqua, and Masaki Aono
Journal of Information Processing, Vol.29, pp.16-29, January 2021.
Peer-Reviewed International Conferences
A Neural Network Model to Identify the Crisis-related Actionable Informative Tweets for Disaster Management.
Abu Nowshed Chy, Umme Aymun Siddiqua, and Masaki Aono
Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP), 5-7 June 2020, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Best Paper Award (as a co-author)
Tweet Stance Detection Using an Attention based Neural Ensemble Model
Umme Aymun Siddiqua, Abu Nowshed Chy, and Masaki Aono
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT 2019), ACL, 2-5 June 2019, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Stance Detection on Microblog Focusing on Syntactic Tree Representation
Umme Aymun Siddiqua, Abu Nowshed Chy, and Masaki Aono
3rd International Conference on Data Mining and Big Data (DMBD 2018), Springer, 17-22 June 2018, Shanghai, China.
Combining a Rule-based Classifier with Ensemble of Feature Sets and Machine Learning Techniques for Sentiment Analysis on Microblog
Umme Aymun Siddiqua, Tanveer Ahsan, and Abu Nowshed Chy
International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT 2016), IEEE, 18-20 December 2016, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Combining a Rule-based Classifier with Weakly Supervised Learning for Twitter Sentiment Analysis
Umme Aymun Siddiqua, Tanveer Ahsan, and Abu Nowshed Chy
International Conference on Innovations in Science, Engineering and Technology (ICISET 2016), IEEE, 28-29 October 2016, Chittagong, Bangladesh.
International Research Workshops
KDEHatEval at SemEval-2019 Task5: A Neural Network Model for Detecting Hate Speech in Twitter
Umme Aymun Siddiqua, Abu Nowshed Chy, and Masaki Aono
Proceedings of the 13th International Workshops on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2019) ACL, 6-7 June 2019, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Neural Networks and Support Vector Machine based Approach for Classifying Tweets by Information Types at TREC2018 Incident Streams Task
Abu Nowshed Chy, Umme Aymun Siddiqua, and Masaki Aono
Proceedings of the 27th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2018), NIST, 14-16 November 2018, Maryland, USA.
Publication Records Summary:
https://scholar.google.co.jp/citations?user=zVDq8EAAAAAJ&hl=en
Ashraf Siddique
Teacher Training and Development: Senior Instructor
MA, TESOL
CELTA
DELTA
Iqbal-e-Rasul
Admissions & Testing: Senior Instructor
BA in English, MA TESOL from NSU, Cambridge CELTA
Mr Iqbal-e-Rasul joined AUW in January 2018 as an Instructor. At present, he is serving as Senior Instructor of English Language, and Coordinator of admission and placement assessments.
Mr. Iqbal has worked across eduction, corporate nad development industries relating to teaching and training in different capacities.
He has been into language and communication teaching and training since 2007 across Chittagong and Dhaka. He has worked in NSU, BRACU and IUB Dhaka and worked in English in Action as a Principal Core Trainer. He worked as HP Trainer for British Council for the trainings of IELTS, IELTS teacher training, Business Communication, and soft skills.
Ashfeen Aribea
General Studies: Senior Instructor
MA, Molecular Biology
Ms. Aribea’s research interests includes the STEM cell proliferation, regulation and gene expression at the molecular level. She has studied the Differentiation Potential of Individual Human Pluripotent STEM Cell Lines: Mesoderm and Ectoderm.
Education
M.Sc. Molecular Biology, Vrije Universitiet Brussels, Belgium
B.Sc. Biological Science, Asian University for Women, Chittagong, Bangladesh
Arif Chowdhury
Learning Center
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.
Pre-Undergraduate Programs Faculty
Sherry Rasmussen
Senior Instructor
Sherry, to whom Illinois TESOL granted the Outstanding Teacher of the Year award in 2022, is from Chicago, Illinois, and has been teaching at EAPs for more than 30 years. She recently semi-retired from DePaul University, where she met Kamal Ahmad on one of his visits there, and afterwards, wanted to come to AUW.
Teaching
Teaching Pre-UG Reading Across Disciplines 5 and First-Year Graduate Writing Seminar
Also observing new teachers and giving feedback
Will contribute to AUW’s teacher-training program
Publications
Interviews as Outreach: Activities & Services for Students, TESOL HEIS Newsletter
May 2017; ITBE Link, Spring 2017
The Rewards of Mentoring, ITBE Link Summer 2013, Vol. 41 No. 2
Senior Citizens and ESL Students: The Perfect Match ITBE Link, Winter 2012, Vol. 39, No. 4
StoryCorps: More Than Just Listening Comprehension TESOL IEPIS Newsletter December 2011
StoryCorps: More Than Just Listening Comprehension, ITBE Link Fall 2011, Vol. 39 No. 3
“Creating a Safe Learning Environment” (co-written with Judith Kent), ITBE Newsletter Fall 2000, Vol. 28 No. 3
Book review: Voices in Literature, MexTESOL Journal, Vol 17, No. 4, April 1994.
Presentations:
Interviews as Outreach, TESOL 2015, Toronto, Canada.
Senior Citizens as ESL Conversation Partners & Interview Subjects, Florida TESOL
2012, Orlando.
StoryCorps: More Than Just Listening Comprehension, TESOL 2011, New Orleans.
Senior Citizens as ESL Conversation Partners & Interview Subjects (as a poster session), TESOL 2011, New Orleans.
Senior Citizens as ESL Conversation Partners & Interview Subjects, ITBE 2011, MidTESOL 2010 (Dubuque).
Revisiting Sexism and Heterosexism in TESOL, MexTESOL 2009, Monterrey, Mex. Teaching & Observing Negotiating Strategies in Small-group Discussions (co-presenter), ITBE 2007
Sexism and Heterosexism in ESOL Classes, MexTESOL annual convention 1993, Puerto Vallarta; FEULE (a conference for foreign language teachers) 1993, Zacatecas ; and MexTESOL Academic Saturday, 1994, Guadalajara.
Kerri Nicol
Senior Instructor
Kerri Nicol is a new Senior English Instructor in the AUW Foundation program. She has a bachelor’s degree in ESL Education from Canada and a master’s degree in TESOL from Australia. She has been teaching ESL and EAP for over 25 years in Asia, Europe, Australia & Canada. She has taught at many international schools, universities and in English language schools in these regions.
Teaching
Language & Composition (Writing), Level 2 Foundation
Reading Course, Levels 2 & 3 Foundation
Jeff Martin
Senior Instructor
MEd, Linguistics
(ACCESS, Undergraduate)
Jeffrey Martin was appointed a Senior Instructor in the Access Academy in 2022. He comes to AUW with more than 30 years’ language teaching experience at tertiary institutions in Japan, China, UAE, and Kuwait. He completed an MEd Applied Linguistics at Temple University Japan and holds an MA in Buddhist Studies and a BA in History.
Afrida Oishee
Senior Instructor
MA, Disaster Management
(ACCESS)
Education
M.Sc. in Disaster Management, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh (Class of 2020)
B.Sc. in Environmental Science, Asian University for Women, Bangladesh
Faiz Ahmad
Senior Instructor
MA, Physics
(ACCESS)
Faiz Ahmed is the Instructor in Pre-Calculus, Access Academy from Spring 2018 and teaching at AUW since Summer II, 2016 (Pre-Access Academy). Faiz graduated from the University of Chittagong (Bangladesh), in Physics with both first class results. Before joining AUW, he worked for Presidency International School (Cambridge affiliated) and Bangladesh Elementary School (NC English medium) for 5 years. He actively participated in numerous training sessions conducted by local and international experts on teaching methods, lesson planning, classroom management, student psychology etc. In 2017 he successfully completed AuthorAID (based in Oxford, UK) grant proposal and research writing online course and obtained Merit grade. Mr Ahmed is also one of the 29 listed junior researchers from South Asia selected by NABIC & BCAS (Dhaka) and NERSC (Bergen, Norway).
Research
Mr. Ahmad’s research is focused on Number theory, Ocean Dynamics, and Astrophysics. His current research projects include:
AuthorAID (Oxford, UK based) grant proposal and research writing course, 2017. From more than 91 countries, 4477 researchers joined in the course. Faiz achieved merit grade in the course (one who got minimum 80% marks in every week exam and finished all grant, abstract writing and reviewing)
Grant obtained: Selected for -NABIC International Winter Research School (2014), from Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Bergen –Norway, and NABIC, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
‘Cosmic Journey To The Edge Of The Universe’ (on Astrophysics), reviewed by – Judith E. M. Klostermann, Ph.D., Wageningen University & Research (Alterra – CALM team), Netherlands, 2016.
Publications
Working Papers / Reports
‘Bay of Bengal: A basin of Climate Insecurity and Huge Possibilities’, Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC) Special report no. 91, 2015.
‘Mangrove recovery atlas for the entire Bangla coast using Remote sensing, modeling, and GIS data’ (proposed), Abstract intensively supervised by – Judith E. M. Klostermann, Ph.D., Wageningen University & Research (Alterra – CALM team), Netherlands. (2015)
Assessment of the relative sea – level (RSL) change between 1986 – 2005to 2081 – 2100 for Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh Map source: CMIPS 5 RCP 4.5 scenario. [NERSC special report no. 91, 2015]
Education
M.Sc. Physics, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh
B.Sc. Physics, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh
Troyee Barua
Instructor
I am the instructor of mathematics in the Pre-UG program from spring 2023. I also worked as an instructor of Physics at AUW’s access academy from 2019-2020. Previously, I was a Principal of Bharateswari Homes, a residential school and college from Sep 2020 to Dec 2023. Moreover, I taught Mathematics and Physics in the Cambridge curriculum and the National Curriculum of Bangladesh. I actively participated in numerous training sessions conducted by local and international experts on teaching methods, student psychology, administration, leadership skill, etc.
I received B.Sc. (Hons) and an M.Sc degree in physics. Further, I completed a master of philosophy in medical physics. I also completed a Bachelor of education course.
Research
Research interests: Naturally Occurred Radioactivity and Heavy Metals Concentrations in Wild Mushrooms in Chittagong Hill Tracts Area of Bangladesh
Grants Obtained:
Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology
Publications:
- Barua, T., Bhuian S. I., Hossain, S. et al. J Radiational Nucl Chem (2019) 322: 173. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-019-06579-6.
- Barua, Troyee; Khandaker, Mayeen Uddin; et al. International Journal of Environmental Analytical Chemistry (SEP 2021) https://doi.org/10.1080/03067319.2021.1974423
Presentations:
- “Radiological Assessment of Natural Radionuclides in Soil in Chattogram Hill Tracts of Bangladesh.”, 3rd International Conference on “Physics for Sustainable Development & Technology” organized by ICPSDT-2019, 18-19 December 2019.
- “Accumulation of Trace Elements by Wild Mushrooms in Chattogram Hill Tracts, Bangladesh”, International Conference on Physics – 2019, organized by Bangladesh Physical Society 07-09 February 2019.
- “Radioactivity and Heavy Metals Concentration in Wild Mushrooms in Hill Tracts Area of Chittagong, Bangladesh” – Fourth International Conference on Applications of RadiotraCers and Energetic Beams in Sciences (ARCEBS-2018) ll-17, November 2018 at Fort Raichak, Kolkata.
- “Importance of Practical Laboratory Experience in Secondary Physics Education”, 2nd International Conference on “Physics for Sustainable Development & Technology” organized by ICPSDT-2017, 10-11 December 2017.
BMK Haider
Instructor
MA, International Relations
MA, History
(ACCESS)
Research interests are the religious radicalization process and how structural reasons are playing it´s roles on individuals´ decision making. He is also interested in to look into the risk radicalizatin in the vulnerable population.
Sabrina Naoshin
Instructor
MBA (Pathways)
Nihida Nigar
Instructor
Nahida Nigar have joined AUW in March 2023 as an Instructor. She received B.Sc. Engg. and M.Sc. Engg. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh in 2013 and 2016, respectively. She is currently an M.Phil candidate in Computer Science and Engineering at University of Chittagong.
She awarded the Chittagong University Scholarship from the University of Chittagong for studying in the M.Phil. Program in Computer Science and Engineering at CU.
During her career as an educator for more than 8 years, she taught at higher secondary and undergraduate levels of different institutions in Computer Science discipline.Currently, She is responsible for teaching a foundation in Computer Science as well as a base in Critical Thinking.
Teaching
Computer Concepts and Activities
Research interests
- Wireless adhoc and sensor network
- Network Security
- Machine/Deep learning
- Artificial intelligence
Project involvements
- An efficient encryption-secure communication using symmetric key
- A Proposed Framework for Fingerprintbased Voting System in Bangladesh
- Microcontroller based Autistic Child Monitoring System in Bangladesh
- Offline Plagiarism Detection with Natural Language Processing
- Pharmaceutical Drug Logistics System
- IoT Based Gas Leakage and Fire Detection System
- A General Review, Analysis, and Forecasting on COVID-19
- Self- Defense System for Women
- Predicting Weather Forecast with Machine Learning
- Gas Leakage and Fire Detection System
- GSM AND GPS Module Based Vehicle Safety and Accident Alarming System
Aysha Siddiqua
Instructor
BS, Biological Science
(Pathways)
My work mostly involves teaching English courses to pathways students and also mentoring them. In addition, updating of databases and spreadsheets, collecting data, supporting in events management and teacher trainings, student counseling, and formatting of pathways content while working under the supervision of pathways director. I joined Pathways in 2020 January.
Majored in Biological Sciences and minored in economics from Asian University for Women.
Research
Antibiotic resistance in the wild.
Senior Thesis: Antibiotic resistant bacteria at the human wildlife interface: A comparison of the terrestrial gecko (Hemidactylus frenatus) and aquatic Black softshell turtle (Nilssonia nigricans) in Chittagong, Bangladesh
Project involvements –
Phillott A.D., Siddiqua A., Weerasinghe C., Shaima N., Mehelin N., Naik N., Alam N., Salsavil R., Ali S., Sandez S. & Tran T. 2016. Challenges and opportunities for South Asian women in science. 3rd National Conference on Natural Science and Technology, 15-16th April 2016, Chittagong, Bangladesh.
Phillott A.D., Ikra Z.J., Balasubramaniam M., Bui T., Chelvan A., Hassan M., Islam L., Jawaid E., Naik N., Nawer A., Noshin Z., Sarkar S., Shafiul S., Siddiqua A., Shaima N., Tamang C., Tarique T., Thirukeswaran S., Wangmo K.P., Yasmin N. & Natasha F. 2016. Characterising microbes of the built environment: An opportunity for original, authentic research by undergraduate students studying environmental microbiology. 3rd National Conference on Natural Science and Technology, 15-16th April 2016, Chittagong, Bangladesh.
Israt Happy
Instructor
MA, Public Health
(Pathways)
Israt has always been passionate about teaching and this is her 4th 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.
Fatema Nusrat
Instructor
Former Teaching Assistant in CS50 course (Introduction to Computer Science) at Asian University for Women.
Education:
MSc in Computer Engineering, Konya Technical University, Turkey
BSc in Computer Science and Engineering, International Islamic University Chittagong
Research Interest:
Artificial intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Neural networks, Data Science
Research Publications
“Prediction of Diabetes Mellitus by using Gradient Boosting Classification” European Journal of Science and Technology, October 5, 2020
“Highly Accurate Spam Detection with the Help of Feature Selection and Data Transformation” The International Arab Journal of Information Technology (IAJIT) (under review)
Abu Nowhash Chowdhury
Junior Instructor
B.Sc. (Engg.) in Computer Science and Engineering
Abu Nowhash Chowdhury received his B.Sc. (Engg.) in Computer Science and Engineering from the International Islamic University Chittagong, Bangladesh in 2022. Currently, he is serving as a Junior Instructor in Computer Science at the Asian University for Women. His principal research interest includes opinion mining from informal social media data, measuring the informativeness of user-generated texts, deep learning technologies, computational linguistics, and natural language processing (NLP). However, he is always interested to explore other interdisciplinary research areas too. He published his research findings at two International conferences in India and Bangladesh. One of his recent articles was awarded the Best Paper Award at The 3rd International Conference on Innovations in Science, Engineering, and Technology (ICISET), IEEE, Bangladesh. Besides he received recognition for his excellent idea generation and software development skills at the National level Intra university Hackathon contest. He is very fond of learning and teaching programming languages. He has a great zeal to make a positive impact in the education, teaching, and research sectors. He is always passionate to help young students deepen their interest in learning and research.
Courses Teach:
- CS Intensive (Computer Fundamentals and C Programming)
- Python Programming
Research Interests:
- Opinion Mining and Knowledge Discovery from Informal Social Media Data,
- Text Informativeness,
- Data Mining,
- Estimating Data Semantics,
- Information Retrieval,
- Natural Language Processing,
- Computational Linguistics,
- Deep Learning.
Peer-Reviewed International Conferences:
- Abu Nowhash Chowdhury, Shawon Guha, Nurul Amin, and Shahidul Islam Khan, “Exploiting Ensemble of Transformer Models for Detecting Informative Tweets”, IEEE India Council International Conference (INDICON), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, India, IEEE, 2021.
- Abu Nowhash Chowdhury, Shawon Guha, Nurul Amin, and Shahidul Islam Khan, “Exploiting Diverse Contextual Features through Transformers for Detecting Informative Tweets”, The 3rd International Conference on Innovations in Science, Engineering and Technology (ICISET), P.P-350~355, IEEE, Bangladesh, 2022. (Best Paper Awarded)
Publication Records Summary:
Tajnim Jahan
Junior Instructor
I have completed my graduation in Computer Science and Engineering department from International Islamic University Chittagong in 2019 and now pursuing my M.Sc. Engineering in CSE at Chittagong University of engineering and technology (CUET). Previously I worked as a Junior Instructor In a private polytechnic college in computer technology department for almost 1 year. Now I have joined in Asian University for women as Junior Instructor of Computer Science, Pre-UG in 2023.Here I am teaching Computer literacy subject. As I have interest in teaching and research filed so I am focused to this to grown my career.
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
Nargis Sultana
Junior Instructor
Highest Degree – MELT
Sofia Siddiqua
Junior Instructor
B.A. (Hons) in English Language & Literature
TESOL from North South University
Cambridge CELTA
Ms. Sofia joined AUW in August 2022 as a Junior English Language Instructor in the Pre-Undergraduate program. She has been working in the education industry since 2019. She has served United International University and Daffodil International University as a Lecturer. She is also a researcher and has a publication.
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
Jannatul Akmam
Junior 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)
Alexandra Urbanikova
Junior Instructor
MA, Mathematics
(ACCESS)
Antara Titikhsha Barua
Junior Instructor
BS, Bioinformatics
(ACCESS)
Antara joined AUW in Spring 2022. She graduated from AUW in May, 2021 with a BS degree
in Bioinformatics and double minors in Computer Science and Mathematics. During her
senior year, she was an exchange program student at Cornell University and was a guest
student at Yale University respectively. She also worked at Intelligent Machines as an AI
Engineer Trainee. During her time as an undergraduate student, she was the first President
of AUW AI Society and Managing Editor of the campus newspaper The Echo AUW. She also
founded The Echo AUW extended group in Summer 2020.
Education
BS, Bioinformatics, Asian University for Women
Sadia Maisha
Junior Instructor
BA, Economics (Pathways and ACCESS)
Sadia Maisha is a Junior Instructor (Mathematics) for the pre-undergraduate program at Asian University for Women (AUW). Currently she is teaching both pathways and access academy students. Before joining AUW, she worked at Chittagong Grammar School as an 8th grade teacher. During her undergraduate years, she worked as peer tutor for 9 months at the Science & Math Center at AUW. She also actively volunteered as an Academic Mentor for Mathematics and also worked as teaching assistants for courses like econometrics, principles of microeconomics & basic economics at her university.
Sadia Maisha received her Bachelor in Arts in Economics (with double minor in Mathematics & Finance) in the year 2020 from AUW.
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.
Zumana Alam
Junior Instructor
Junior Instructor
BSc Electrical Engineering
Pre-UG Mathematics (Pathways)
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
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.
Tahira Tazreen
Junior Instructor
MA,
(Pathways)
I am working as Junior Instructor of Pathways for Promise in AUW. Although it is my first-time teaching in Pathways, I have experience of working with them in different ways. After graduating from AUW in 2018, I joined Pathways for Promise as Program Officer and got the opportunity to work directly with the students, as well as with the instructors. Earlier, as a student of under graduation program, I worked as academic mentor for the students of Pathways, where I facilitated them in learning English (speaking, writing, and reading).
Mooniah Ramkissoon
Junior Instructor
BA, TESOL
Teacher Education Certificate
(General Studies)
General Studies Program English. English Instructor at AUW from 16/08/2022.
Previous Academic Appointments: Instructor of English Language and Academic Writing at
Princess Noura University, Saudi Arabia and Colleges of Higher Education , Sultanate of
Oman from 2010 t0 2020.
Teacher of GCSE Advanced Level English Literature in the UK, Cayman Islands and
Trinidad from 1991 to 2010.
Qualifications: BA Degree (Honors) Literature and Linguistics
TESOL Certificate Trinity
Teacher Education Certificate
Nusrat Huda
Junior Instructor
BA, Business/Computer Science
(General Studies)
Ms Nusrat Huda has received a Bachelor in Commerce with Computer Applications degree from Mahatma Gandhi University in Abu Dhabi, U.A.E and an MBA in Finance from Independent University Bangladesh. She has more than 8 years of teaching and soft skills training experience in Bangladesh. She is a certified soft skills trainer and organizational leader having conducted various training sessions for corporations and educational institutions in the country.
She joined AUW in March ’22 as an IT Instructor in the General Studies Program where she is responsible for conducting computer literacy classes for young female students belonging to challenging spheres of the society.
Research interests
- Communication and leadership development
- Technology and Communication
- Public speaking and stage phobia
- Women empowerment
Project involvements
A community leader in a voluntary non-profit leadership organization named Toastmasters International. Served in several leadership capacities including region head in 2020-21. Has had the opportunity to help develop leadership and communication skills in members, particularly women from across the Indian sub-continent.
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
Zoha Seddighi
Junior Instructor
I’m a certified teacher with an M.A. in English Literature from Macquarie University/ Australia. I have worked in Australia, Indonesia, Russia, Iran and “Afghanistan.” During my teaching career, I have taught at different universities, colleges and schools. As a humanitarian, I have cooperated with The UN, AIESEC, UNICEF, UNESCO and The Alliance for International Women’s Rights.
I joined The Asian University for women as an English Language Instructor in January 2022 and here I teach the General Studies Program to prepare students for the university’s undergraduate degree programs. Besides teaching, I empower girls to become future leaders.
Jannatul Bakya
Junior Instructor of Mathematics
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
Farishta Murad
Junior Instructor
With a formal teaching experience spanning from high school to university, including almost four years of working as a part-time teaching assistant in parallel to being a full-time student at Asian University for Women (AUW), I am thrilled to advance into representing the university as a Junior Instructor of Mathematics in Pre-UG. AUW has contributed significantly to my career accomplishments , from qualifying for a mid-senior level Banking position at HSBC as my first job to launching my own Graphic designing company called Grafiqe, and finally transitioning to a Math Faculty. I believe my calculative decision to gear into this occupation will wholly compensate my gratification level as I am driven by passion for numbers. Looking forward to accelerating the university’s ideals to build a more progressive society through education and beyond.
Teaching
Mathematics, Pre-UG.
Research
Research interests: Education and Housewives
Project involvements: I have conducted four independent research projects as a part of academics including my senior thesis – “The Worth of Housewives’ Time: A Micro-level Analysis in Chattogram, Bangladesh.”
Dilshad Jahan
Junior Instructor
I joined AUW last semester(Fall, 2022) as adjunct faculty. I taught 1-course(two sections) of Mathematics for the level Pre-Intermediate in General Studies program. From this semester I will be teaching level 1 & level 2 Mathematics. Before joining AUW as faculty I joined AUW back in 2018 as a student. I did my major in Economics with a double minor in Finance and Mathematics. I graduated from AUW on May 2022 with Cum Laude honors.
Research interests:
On development sector
Project involvements:
Socio-Economic Status of Palmyra Workers
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:
- 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
Piers Hayward
Junior Instructor
Piers has a science and business background, and qualified to work in the field of Australian migration law. Working with migrants inspired him to volunteer teaching literacy and numeracy to refugees on the Australian Migration Education Program. He loved the experience and qualified as an ESL teacher. For the last 5 years, Piers has been combining teaching ESL, Maths and Sciences to English second language learners, and joins AUW as a Junior Maths Instructor in the Pre-Undergraduate Program. Piers holds an MBA and CELTA.
Khadija Kubra
Junior Instructor
Khadija Kubra is a Junior Instructor of Computer Science, Pre-UG. She has joined AUW in January 2023. She is teaching Computer literacy. She has completed her Bachelors of Science and Masters from American University-Bangladesh. She was an intern teaching assistant at AIUB. Her research interests include machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, Pattern Recognition, object detection & Classification. She is extremely motivated to have a positive influence on the fields of teaching, research, and education. She is constantly driven by a desire to increase the interests of young students in learning and study.
Teaching
Computer Literacy
Research Interest
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning
- Computer Vision
- Pattern Recognition
- Object Detection & Classification
Project involvements
- DeepFBAs: Fetal Brain Abnormalities Detection from MRI Images using CNN with Stacking Strategy
- Fisher Motion descriptor for LSTM-based gait analysis using SVM Classification.
- Robust Walking Pattern Recognition Using Silhouette and Pose Estimation
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
Lutfun Nahar Anika
Junior Instructor
I am currently serving as the Junior Instructor of Mathematics at the AUW. I am teaching quantitative reasoning at level 2 and precalculus at level 3. I’ve joined AUW for the spring session of 2023. I also served as a TA in intermediate macroeconomics, principles of microeconomics, and introduction to finance during my university career. I have my own startup, QEC, which is an EdTech platform basically to prepare sixth grade students for the most competitive “Cadet College Admission Test.” The middle school students are also cared for academically both online and offline. Additionally, I created projects for K–12 kids and the Bangladesh Civil Service courses while working as the project-based instructor at the 10-minute school, Bangladesh’s largest EdTech platform.
Farhana Rubayet
Junior Instructor
Farhana Rubayet graduated from AUW in 2022 with a major in Economics and minors in Development Studies and Finance. With great teaching aspirations, she recently joined AUW as a Junior Instructor in January 2023. She will be responsible for teaching Pre-Undergraduate students Quantitative Reasoning (level 200) and Precalculus (level 300). Prior to joining AUW as a Faculty member, Farhana Rubayet worked as a Teaching Assistant at AUW for the Introduction to Econometrics and Reading Across the Disciplines courses. She performed as a Case Analyst for a CARITAS Bangladesh project promoting social inclusion based on drug-addicted people and slum dwellers. She also assisted one of the two lead researchers in a World Bank project involving the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI) and evaluated the online transparency of fisheries management information in Bangladesh.
Nawar Fairooz
Junior Instructor
Nawar is a teacher and writer, currently working as a Junior Instructor in the ESL Program. She graduated from Independent University, Bangladesh, with a major in Contemporary English Literature. She worked as a Junior Lecturer (Adjunct) at North South University before coming to AUW.
Nayma Afreen
Junior Instructor
Nayma Afreen joined AUW as a junior instructor of English in January 2023. She embarked on teaching profession in 2017. Prior to joining AUW she served three universities. Her academic background includes concentration on English Language Teaching (ELT) both in graduation and post-graduation. Her research interests revolve around ELT and social, psychological and technological effects on language learning.
Sakib Mohammad Shahrain
Junior Instructor
Sakib Mohammad Shahrain joined AUW on January 2023 with a Post Graduate degree in English Language Teaching and an Undergraduate degree in English Language and Literature. He completed his schooling with a British Curriculum background and is active in extracurricular activities like MUN, Public Speaking, and Debating.
He has 13 months of prior teaching experience in a British Curriculum School and two months of experience in the corporate sector. His research interests are critical pedagogy, assessment validity and impacts, factors that affect learning styles and practices, and four skills.
Currently, he is taking ESL level 1 “Reading and Writing” and “Speaking and Listening” courses and the “Reading Across the Disciplines” level 1 course at the Foundation level. With his dissertation major focusing on critical pedagogy, Sakib aims to empower the students through active involvement in classroom activities, decisions on teaching styles and home tasks, and much more. He aspires to ensure that the students can implement their learnings in the classroom in the outside world to the fullest extent and be able to think critically in all sorts of situations.
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.
Teaching Fellows, Pre-Undergraduate Programs
Sara Kohlberg
Senior Teaching Fellow
Sara earned her BS from New York University in Global Public Health and Food Studies, and her MPH from Columbia University in Population and Family Health and Humanitarian Assistance. Her research interests include Maternal, Child, and Infant Health and Nutrition, Reproductive Health, and Sustainable Food Systems.
Sanju Banerjee
Teaching Fellow
Sanju is a recent graduate from the University of Oxford, where she read History and Spanish. Her academic interests consist of South Asian women’s history as well as hispanic literature. Having previously taught English to foreign speakers while living in Spain, she is eager to use her experience to contribute towards the empowerment of other young women.
Teaching:
Pre-undergraduate English: ESL Level 2 and Foundation Course Level 1
Rhya Evans
Teaching Fellow
Rhya Evans is a recent graduate of Georgetown University where she completed a BS in Global Health with a minor in Science, Technology, and International Affairs. She joins AUW this year as a teaching fellow, passionate about improving health equity around the world.
Teaching
She will be working to support instructors and students in various public health courses including Environmental Health, Introduction to Public Health, Epidemiology, and Senior Seminars.
Research interests
Her interests include global maternal, infant and reproductive health, their intersection with the environment and climate change, and the ethics of health and development programs.
Journal Articles
Religion, Menstruation, and Refugee Realities: Insights from Rohingya Girls and Women
(Pulitzer Center, 2022)
Cyrus Naji
Teaching Fellow
Cyrus studied Classics at Oxford University. During his undergraduate degree, he combined linguistic study with a focus on ancient history and literature. He has worked in the art and publishing sectors, and is passionate about the empowering effects of education.
Teaching Fellows, Undergraduate Programs
Sadia Chowdhury
Teaching Fellow
Ms. Sadia has recently joined AUW, as a teaching fellow for the Social Sciences Program. Prior to joining AUW, she worked as Research Associate at the BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), BRAC University. There she was involved with quantitative and qualitative research studies. She graduated summa cum laude from AUW in 2019. She was also granted a tuition fee waiver scholarship throughout the four undergraduate years due to her excellence in academic performance. Following her passion for theoretical and empirical economics, she completed her masters in economics with distinction from the University of Sussex. She received the University of Sussex Business School International Masters Award, Sussex Alumni scholarship, and Asian University for Women Sussex Masters Scholarship. Sadia has worked in different multinational organizations such as Marriott International, Chittagong Stock Exchange, and Yunus Centre. She was also involved in various community service organizations and research projects that work to solve some pressing social issues.
Research interests
Her research focuses on the analysis of household behavior, with an emphasis on investment in education and health, poverty, inequality, as well as labor force supply.
Projects Involvements
Assisting and collaborating closely with faculty team members working on the ‘Evaluation Study of World Bank Projects’
Publication
Kamal Raihana Sayeeda and Chowdhury Sadia (2022). Formalization of F-commerce in Bangladesh: Implications for Female-owned SMEs. BRAC Institute of Governance and Development. https://bigd.bracu.ac.bd/formalization-of-f-commerce-in-bangladesh-implications-for-female-owned-smes/
Teaching Fellows, Graduate Programs
Nishat Tasnim Akhi
Chief Teaching Fellow and Graduate Program Coordinator
Nishat has earned her bachelor degree from AUW, majoring in Economics in the year of 2019. She has her MA in Economic Policy in Global Markets from Central European University based in both Budapest and Vienna. Her subject of study interest is in the incentivized education system, a sub section of economics of education. She is currently working as a Chief Teaching Fellow & Program Coordinator for the Graduate Program in Education at AUW.
Ferowza Swapnil
Teaching Fellow
Ferowza completed her bachelor’s degree from AUW in 2019, majoring in Economics and minoring in Mathematics. She then pursued her MA in Economic Policy in Global Markets from Central European University in Vienna, Austria. During her Masters, she has developed an interest in the field of Economics of Education, as well as Education Policy designs and implementation. Currently she is working as one of the Teaching Fellows for the Graduate Program in Education at AUW.
Israt Jahan Oeeshi
Teaching Fellow
Israt recently completed her Master’s degree in Economic Policy in Global Markets from Central European University in Vienna, Austria, with a focus on global education policy and development. Israt graduated from Asian University for Women in 2019 with a Bachelor in Economics and a minor in Development Studies. As an outspoken supporter of Human Rights, Economic and Social Equality, Israt enrolled in a fully funded exchange certificate programme at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, USA, on the topic of “Inequality Analysis.” Israt’s research interests include post-covid inequalities across developed and developing countries, the comparative analysis of social costs and benefits of higher education, future of the investments in EdTech and STEM programs. Israt aspires to make a difference in the unequal society by working on the development of sustainable policy alternatives supported by evidence-based solutions, solid research and green approaches. Israt is an avid traveler who enjoys learning about history, diverse culture, traditions, and cuisines. Israt enjoys photography and admires creativity!
Muzahida Tasbiha
Teaching Fellow
Muzahida graduated from Asian University for Women (AUW) in 2018 with a BA major in Politics, Philosophy, Economics (PPE) and minor in Development Studies. She has worked at BRAC University, Economics and Social Science department as a Teaching Assistant. Later she joined the ‘Teach for Bangladesh’ fellowship program where she worked with underprivileged students and community to join the movement of ensuring quality education for all. She has received fully funded scholarship as a part of her fellowship to pursue MEd. in ‘Educational Leadership and School Improvement’ from BRAC University. Her research interest lies in Educational leadership, Gender role in education, Education for marginalized community and TESOL. Currently she is working as a Teaching Fellow for the Graduate Program in Education at AUW.
Nusaiba Binte Zakaria
Teaching Fellow
Nusaiba holds a BA in Economics from AUW and an MSc in Development Economics from the University of Sussex. Her research interests are in development microeconomics, particularly in questions centered around gender. She returned to AUW as a Teaching Fellow, led by her interest to develop a more nuanced understanding of the barriers faced by women, especially by those from historically disadvantaged backgrounds.
Zuhairia Ibnat
Teaching Fellow
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. Currently, she is working as the Teaching Fellow for the Graduate Program in Education at AUW.
Student & Alumnae Stories
Saren Keang | Cambodia | Class of 2014
“At AUW, I learned to believe that my opinions matter and that I can do anything.”
Saren’s mother left school after the third grade to work in a grocery store. Her father left school after the sixth grade because of the Cambodian Civil War and genocide.
Saren’s father supported the family by making sugar from palm-tree fruits. After he became ill, Saren’s mother sold meat, vegetables, and cooking oil to support the family. Saren’s eldest sister was forced to drop out of school after fourth grade to support the family full time. Fearing a similar fate, Saren worked harder in school and eventually earned a full scholarship to study at AUW.
Thanks to the training she received in Access Academy, Saren overcame prior deficits in her secondary schooling and successfully graduated from AUW. Now she is pursuing a dual Master’s degree in Sustainable International Development and Coexistence & Conflict at Brandeis University in the United States with full scholarship support from Open Society Foundations.