Where I started
I grew up in Chittagong, Bangladesh. Long before engineering, most of my free time went to astronomy. At Notre Dame College in Dhaka, that meant olympiad training camps and searching telescope survey images for asteroids. It also meant designing an airship city for Venus's upper atmosphere with my team for the NSS Space Settlement Contest. Alongside all of that, I helped start Initiative Bangladesh, a volunteer-run platform that gave students free help with their coursework.
What changed
I'm pursuing my undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering at New York University, studying across its Abu Dhabi and New York campuses. At NYU Abu Dhabi, my projects moved from space to people. The things I built started sitting against the body: an ECG that reads the heart, a soft exoskeleton for the spine, a lock that opens to gestures made in your fist, and a shoe sole modeled on a cat's paw. Around the same time I started working in VR, first on a maze game and then on an exhibition of prehistoric rock art from across Arabia.
The rock art work is where perception became a real research question for me. Restoring photographs of petroglyphs comes down to what the eye can and can't pick out. You have to decide which lines are carvings and which are just the rock, and how far you can enhance an image before it stops being honest. At NYU Tandon's Immersive Computing Lab, I spent a summer on the same question from the rendering side: how a headset can put detail only where the eye is looking.
Machines that see
My robotics research at the eBRAIN Lab looks at perception from the machine's side. SCOUT asks whether a detector is fast enough to guide a robot that's actually moving. Our current paper asks how long a robot should keep believing an object is there when its camera keeps missing it.
Rock art, an ECG, and a robot's camera have the same problem: the signal is imperfect, and the system still has to act on it.
How I work
I like building the entire system: the circuit, the code, the physical object, and the experience of the person using it. I also like writing down why each decision was made, because the reasoning is usually the part worth keeping.
Where I'm going
I'm applying to graduate programs in HCI and immersive computing for Fall 2027. I want to keep working where sensing, perception, and people meet. I also want to get better at the part I've done least so far: studying how real users experience what I build.
I'm based in New York, where I've been since last semester. Outside the lab, I photograph events for NYU Abu Dhabi's Office of the Provost, run, and keep trying to bake a decent loaf of bread. You can see some of my photos on my photography portfolio.