Nova Ahmed

Biography

Nova Ahmed is an Associate Professor at North South University. She has completed her PhD from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2010 and has come back to Bangladesh to serve her country. She has deep interest in working with distributed sensing systems with unreliable sensors while her passion has driven her to work on social problems that has lead to interesting human centered computing. Her passion is on empowering women in STEM, women in computing and in ensuring social justice using science and enlightenment.  Her research interest lies in systems, ICTD and Feminist HCI. When she is not busy with her outreach activities, she spends her time with her two daughters and partner – all are feminist activists.
Nova is a founding member and EC of National Young Academy Bangladesh (NYAB), EC of Global Young Academy, Fellow of Sangat, the feminist network in South Asia, founding board member of Kaan Pete Roi. She is an active volunteer of Bangladesh Mathematical Olympiad, Children’s Science Congress and Missing Daughter’s Initiative. She is the Chair of SIGCHI, Dhaka Chapter in Bangladesh. She serves in SIGCHI Cares committee and is a current member of Asian HCI.

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