As a part of Dr Wahab's engineering design lab and research group, I researched on the topic of applied biomimetics.  On the project  funded by the NASA EPSCoR grant and NASA KSC Corrosion Lab, I came up with a novel electro-chemical process using FEA to impart additive mechanical interlocking and adhesion mechanism to metal surfaces used in the NASA flame trench facilities. My research findings were empirically adopted by NASA and  is seen in action in the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Acting as a volunteer design adviser, I helped Dr Sayeba Akhter an esteemed Obs/Gyn specialist from from Dhaka Medical College, Bangladesh to develop a low cost technological design solution to control massive postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) among her patients,a phenomena that is responsible for 30-50% of direct maternal deaths worldwide. We devised a condom balloon tamponade, a form of intrauterine tamponade, created from a catheter, a male latex condom, and a string to tie the condom to the catheter- to replace the more expensive baloon style temponade. Since then the design has received widespread reception among surgeons in developing countries, especially in the low resource areas of the world. 

Track your business, yourself

I am an investor at Meghdut Analytics, a graduate of the valley based accelerator Founder Institute. Meghdut is the first of its kind in Bangladesh, a country that is fast realizing the importance of analyzing consumer data for demand and response project. Meghdut empowers you to track, analyze and visualize your venture without the need of an IT infrastructure. Our cloud based analytics platform helps you take data driven decision with ease and speed and scales automatically for big data

Intelligent, social robots? Why not?

I am a member of the Intelligent Social Robots initiative at Houston, TX. The primary solicitor of the initiative is E-motion robotics, a small startup founded in 2014 with the goal of developing social robots for commercial applications. E-Motion is achieving this by employing college and high school students with strong engineering and computer science aptitude under the tutelage of experienced engineers and scientists.

I am a mentor at Station Houston. It's a new breed of accelerator /slash incubator/hackerspace for entrepreneurs Young and Old. Station creates collisions that matter by connecting Houston’s startup community and strengthening cross-disciplinary collaboration among our innovation ecosystem. We foster these interactions through our diverse educational and social programs and by hosting community-driven meetups and events . Station Mentors and our in-house team offer office hours and workshops to provide expert advice and impact-driven introductions to the startup scene.

A disorganized hot mess of things

I am (also) a member of the TX/RX hackerlab, a social, non-profit hackerspace for makers, tinkerers, inventors, crafters and coders who engage in a variety of hacking, engineering and coding  activities under the same roof. We offer classes, lab space and collective knowledge to help launch new ideas, designs and projects.