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Nova Ahmed

Country of origin: Bangladesh Currently in: Bangladesh, Dhaka General field of specialization: Computing and Information Technology
Academic Background

Degrees

2010 Doctorate Computing and Information Technology
2004 Master Computing and Information Technology
2000 Undergraduate Computing and Information Technology
Research and Profession

Current Research Activities

Computing and Information Technology

* Working on mobile computing for healthcare, support and utility * Working on systems to support women and children working on privacy, security and wellbeing * Working on sensor systems that are low cost to work in developing countries to deal with natural disasters like flood.

Research Keywords: 
ICTD
Feminist HCI
Mobile Computing

Publications resulting from Research: 


Recent Selected Publications

[1] Sambasivan, N., Checkley, G., Batool, A., Gaytán-Lugo, L. S., Matthews, T., Consolvo, S., & Churchill, E. (2018, August). “Privacy is not for me, it’s for those rich women”: Performative Privacy Practices on Mobile Phones by Women in South Asia. In Fourteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security ({SOUPS} 2018). USENIX} Association.

[2]Sambasivan, N., Checkley, G., Ahmed, N., & Batool, A. (2017). Gender equity in technologies: considerations for design in the global south. interactions, 25(1), 58-61. [PDF]

[3]Hossain, Mohammad Sorowar, Md Mahbub Hasan, Muhammad Sougatul Islam, Salequl Islam, Miliva Mozaffor, Md Abdullah Saeed Khan, Nova Ahmed et al. "Chikungunya outbreak (2017) in Bangladesh: Clinical profile, economic impact and quality of life during the acute phase of the disease." PLoS neglected tropical diseases 12, no. 6 (2018): e0006561.

[4]Abeer, I. A., Saha, A., Sinha, A., & Ahmed, N. (2018, September). Reinforcement based learning through communicative Android app for autism personnel. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Adjunct (pp. 132-138). ACM.

[5] Ahmed, N., Raheem, E., Rahman, N., Khan, M. Z. R., Mosabbir, A. A., & Hossain, M. S. (2018). Managing autism spectrum disorder in developing countries by utilizing existing resources: A perspective from Bangladesh. Autism, 1362361318773981.

[6]Ahmed, N., Ghosh, S., Hassan, R. A., Galib, S. I., Azad, A. K., & Syrus, M. A. (2017). A gradient sensing middleware to handle flash flood. Computers & Electrical Engineering, 62, 44-52. [PDF]

[7]Ahmed, N., Syrus, M. A., & Chowdhury, A. (2017, July). Simple Group Photo Sharing Using Facesense. In Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), 2017 IEEE 41st Annual (Vol. 1, pp. 845-850). IEEE.

[8]Ahmed, N., Siddiquee, M. R., Karim, R., Zaman, M., Alam, S. M., & Ashram, S. F. (2017, June). Crazy Crowd Sourcing to Mitigate Resource Scarcity. In Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2017 IEEE 37th International Conference on (pp. 2322-2326). IEEE.

[9] Ahmed, Syed Ishtiaque, Nova Ahmed, Faheem Hussain, and Neha Kumar. "Computing beyond gender-imposed limits." In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Computing within Limits, p. 6. ACM, 2016.

[10]Ahmed, Syed Ishtiaque, Steven J. Jackson, Nova Ahmed, Hasan Shahid Ferdous, Md Rashidujjaman Rifat, A. S. M. Rizvi, Shamir Ahmed, and Rifat Sabbir Mansur. "Protibadi: A platform for fighting sexual harassment in urban Bangladesh." In Proceedings of the 32nd annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems, pp. 2695-2704. ACM, 2014.



Current profession

Current professional activities type: 
Research
Teaching
Other
Associate Professor at North South University, Bangladesh Adjunct Researcher, Biomedical Research Institute, Bangladesh

Workshop and Conference Attended

2019 Scotland ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2017 Denver, USA ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2016 USA ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2019 Germany International Conference and Anniversary Annual General Meeting of the Global Young Academy
2018 Thailand International Conference and Anniversary Annual General Meeting of the Global Young Academy
2017 UK International Conference and Anniversary Annual General Meeting of the Global Young Academy
2016 Netherlands International Conference and Anniversary Annual General Meeting of the Global Young Academy

Affiliations

Global Young Academy

Presentation given

2019
Ethics and Artificial Intelligence in Developing Regions
Thailand
Event: Conference of Ethics Science and Technology and Sustainable Development, UNESCO, Ministry of Higher Education, Thailand, Invited speaker
03/2019
Scientific Solutions in Developing Regions
Brazil
Event: IAP-Res Conference, Brazil, Invited speaker (2019)
2017
HCI Research in Bangladesh
Mumbai, India
Event: Interact, India, Invited Speaker
2019
Made in Bangladesh
Mumbai, India
Event: Interaction Design
2019
SIGCHI, Dhaka
Japan
Event: Asian Development Committee Meeting
Prizes, Grants and Awards

Other Awards

Mar 2019
Grace Hopper Conference for Women in Computing, Faculty Scholar
This is a funding that supports women in computing through a network to grow together.
Mar 2019
Fellowship, XXIV South Asian Feminist Capacity Building Course on Gender, Sustainable Livelihoods, Human Rights and Peace
It is a Feminist sisterhood of Sangat where South Asian women support each other.
Sep 2019
Best Paper Award, CHI
The work on Gendered division of technology used received best paper award in CHI.
May 2018
IAPP Distinguished Privacy Award,SOUPS
IAPP Distinguished Privacy Award, (SOUPS, 2018) - our work shows the privacy concern among women of South Asia in technology usage.
Mar 2019
ACM SIGCHI Development Grant
It is a grant to develop community in human centered computing
Aug 2013
New Investigators Award (b), Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing
It supports technical innovation with a monetary award
Aug 2009
New Investigators Award (a), Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing
It supports technical innovation with a monetary award
Feb 2002
Deans Honour, University of Dhaka
Supports excellence among undergraduate students

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