Academic:

• Industrial R & D experience in Engineering (IBM Watson Research Center), Finance (Goldman Sachs) and Entertainment (Walt Disney Imagineering). 

• Finalist of the ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) at ASSETS08 Halifax, NC, Canada.

• Best of Papers Award at the Intelligent Virtual Agents Conference 2006. [Pic]

• Best Senior Engineering Design Award at Penn State University, Erie, in 2004, judged by IEEE.  [Pic 1, Pic 2]

• Represented Penn State University at the IEEE Undergraduate Design Contest at the Rochester Institute of Technology, New York  in May '04. [Pic1, Pic 2]

Scholarships/Grants:

• Awarded Grants (~7k) from Festival of Arts, Science and Technology (FAST) and Council for the Arts at MIT (CAMIT) for MIT Mood Meter to celebrate MIT's culture of creativity and invention on its 150th anniversary.

• Recipient of IEEE micro-grant amounting 10k to support my work of using technology to improve peoples live, 2010.

• Recipient of IEEE Gold Humanitarian Fellowship designed for engineering students in recognition of their skills and knowledge to aid humanitarian work, 2009.

• Awarded MIT Public Services Grant to conduct an autism intervention in Bangladesh, 2009.

• President Honorary Merit Scholarship amounting $7000/year.

Organizational:

• Vice President of Communications of MIT Media Lab's India Initiative, 2008-current.

• Secretary of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Penn State University, York Chapter, Fall 2001.

• Junior Student Senator of Student Governing Body of Penn State University, Fall 2001. [Pic]

• Represented Penn State University in a UN model debate competition at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, 2001. [Pic]

• Founder President of Dhaka College Science Club, 1997-98, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

• Creation and maintenance of numerous websites (MIT Bangladesh Students Association Website, Udayan Bidyalaya Batch 1996 website etc).

Creative Writing:  

• The Power of Speech - featured to commemorate the world autism day - http://www.thedailystar.net/magazine/2010/04/01/s_feature.htm

• The Tale of a Selfish Person - http://www.thedailystar.net/magazine/2008/05/04/reflections.htm

• A Promise fulfilled - http://www.thedailystar.net/magazine/2008/05/03/remembrance.htm

• The Hassles of Having the Name Mohammed

• ভিনদেশে ভালোবাসা -  প্রথম আলো - ছুটির দিনে

Cultural: 

• Staged, and edited a Bengali drama in one of the cultural events organized by Bangladeshi Students Association at MIT, 2010. [youtube link]

• Conducted International Cooking Class featuring Bangladeshi Cuisine at the MIT Westgate graduate dormitory, 2008. [Pic 1, Pic 2, Pic 3, Pic 4]   

• Edited the journal (direct link in PDF ~ 5 MB of size, view in google doc) that was published on the First Inter College General Knowledge Competition organized by the Dhaka College Science Club, in which the Home Minister and Foreign Minister of Peoples Republic of Bangladesh were present as chief and special guests respectively in '98.

• Finalist in the 8th Inter College General Knowledge Competition in 1996 organized by Notre Dame College Science Club, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Sports:

• Completed "Fundamentals of Squash" and "Advanced Squash" at MIT.

• Completed the Intro-to-Tennis class at Penn State University.

• Quarter-finalist of Green Delta Inter School Table Tennis Competition, 1993, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Click here to view a more organized and detailed work of my extra-curricular activities (from age 5 to 22)

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