We are a multidisciplinary team.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
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Dr Ifti joined the High-Speed Aerodynamics and Propulsion Lab at the University of Maryland, USA, in April 2022. Originally from Mymensingh, Bangladesh, he earned his DPhil in Engineering Science (Hypersonics) from the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. For the scientific contributions in his doctoral thesis entitle, “Transpiration Cooling of a Hypersonic Vehicle,” he won the 2022 UK Doctoral Researcher Award (2nd Prize, Engineering), in a UK-wide academic competition that is awarded annually to junior researchers with promise to be amongst the world class academics of the future. Dr Ifti holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Stuttgart, Germany.
Doctoral Researcher
Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Canada
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Atia Amin is a PhD student at McGill University in the department of Human Genetics where she is working on bioinformatics. She finished her masters program at the University of South Dakota where she performed research on engineering abiotic stress resistant crop plants. Having born and brought up in Bangladesh, Atia is also passionate about popularizing STEM among girls in Bangladesh and other developing countries.
Senior Resident Neurosurgeon
St Joseph Hospital Berlin, Germany
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Samara Sharmeen is a resident neurosurgeon working in Berlin, and a PhD candidate at the RWTH Aachen University. Her current research is on prognostic clinical outcome and 3D-CT volumetric planning before conventional complex two-stage haepatectomy versus Associating Liver Partition and Portal vein Ligation for Staged haepatectomy – ALPPS. Samara is interested in use of emerging technologies to aid clinical decision making. She has been collaborating in digital health projects since 2019, attending PyCon and PyConJP, and continues to create awareness of Python to her clinical peers. Furthermore, Samara has worked at Apple Inc. for over 5 years as a Product Specialist.
Doctoral Researcher
MILA, McGill University, Canada
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Haque Ishfaq is currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science with a focus on artificial intelligence. Prior to joining McGill University, he obtained his M.S. degree in Statistics and B.S. degree in Mathematical and Computational Science from Stanford University as a McCaw Scholar. He also worked as a research scientist intern at top tech companies including Meta, Microsoft, IBM Research and Nvidia. When he was a high school student, Ishfaq represented Bangladesh at the International Mathematical Olympiad 3 times and won 2 Honorable Mentions.
Doctoral Researcher
Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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Sami is a healthcare professional and digital health designer currently reading for a doctoral degree, DPhil in Primary Health Care, at the University of Oxford. His research looks at the characteristics and mechanisms of using human centred AI design to address multiple long-term conditions (multimorbidities) at the intersection of the digital transformation in healthcare.
Previously, he worked as a Research Fellow at the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité University Hospital Berlin with the Core Interoperability Unit. Prior to that he worked as a Healthcare Researcher with the WHO and the Medical Faculty of Maastricht University, on a project related to SDG 3 – resulting in the WHO Community Engagement Health Promotion Guide.
With his background in healthcare and digital health, his areas of research interests are in medical AI Ethics, explainable AI, health design innovation, patient data privacy, digital health regulation, and the application of artificial intelligence in healthcare systems.
Sami has researched on 3D printing for personalised medicine and has recently developed the Healthcare Differential Privacy Framework to make privacy-preserving data sharing viable for medical research and machine learning. Sami has also worked at Apple Inc. for 8 years in different roles ranging from sales and product development to training new employees and designing company-internal solutions.