Nova Ahmed
Awards
About me
Dr. Nova Ahmed is a computer scientist working as a Professor at North South University in Bangladesh. She has finished her PhD from Georgia Institute of Technology, USA and came back to Bangladesh to make changes. She used her experiences of working with sensors to fight social challenges such as systems to protect women from sexual harassment as she returned. She continued to use her work that could support marginal communities with low cost, locally available solution approaches. Her work has been supported by Google, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Development Network abroad and by ICT Ministry and various grants nationally.
Nova Ahmed
Computer Scientist, Bangladesh
Dr. Nova Ahmed is a computer scientist working as a Professor at North South University in Bangladesh. She has finished her PhD from Georgia Institute of Technology, USA and came back to Bangladesh to make changes. She used her experiences of working with sensors to fight social challenges such as systems to protect women from sexual harassment as she returned. She continued to use her work that could support marginal communities with low cost, locally available solution approaches. Her work has been supported by Google, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Development Network abroad and by ICT Ministry and various grants nationally.
A founder and former EC of National Young Academy Bangladesh, former EC of Global Young Academy, Fellow of Sangat, the feminist network in South Asia, founding board member of Kaan Pete Roi, a suicide prevention call center. She is an active volunteer of Bangladesh Mathematical Olympiad, Children’s Science Congress and Missing Daughter’s Initiative. She has organized the Ada Lovelace Celebration to include more women in technology in Bangladesh for 2020 and 2021. In her free time, she is busy with her two daughters and fun partner!
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Degrees:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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