Leadership

MENTORING & LEADERSHIP
  • Founded and led an informal research group mentoring undergraduates and international collaborators, resulting in multiple peer-reviewed publications.
  • Mentor at the Doctrina Mentoring Initiative, guiding 8 to 10 students and early-career researchers from Bangladesh on projects related to heat stress vulnerability and flood risk in Dhaka.
  • Conducted workshops on “Essential Training on GIS and Remote Sensing” and “Preparing Manuscripts for Publication,” reaching over 150 students and researchers.
  • At CEGIS, led small technical teams, trained staff and interns, and coordinated meetings with Bangladesh Army and Bhutan government officials.
  • Led a 20-volunteer team for training programs and field data collection systems during the Rohingya Refugee Response.
  • Elected Vice President of the Urban and Regional Planning Students’ Association (USAR) at RUET, serving as a liaison between students and faculty and organizing study tours, seminars, workshops, and departmental events.
  • Team Captain of school and university cricket and football teams, organizing tournaments and leading teams to victories in interdepartmental competitions at RUET.
  • Co-founded and served as Joint Secretary of the Innovation Society of RUET (ISR), building the organization from scratch and organizing events, workshops, and leadership recruitment.
  • Serving as Secretary (Cultural & Sports) of the Bangladeshi Graduate Students’ Society at McGill University since 2024.
  • TRAININGS & COMPETITIONS ATTENDED
  • Training on The Rise of GeoAI, Esri on AWS (2025)
  • United Nations Mongolia Workshop on Applications of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (2021)
  • Commonwealth Scholarship Climate Action Webinar Series (2021)
  • NASA ARSET Training on SAR for Disasters and Hydrological Applications (2020)
  • 21-day Online GIS Training Program using QGIS, Central University of Karnataka, India (2020)
  • NASA ARSET Training on SAR for Disasters and Hydrological Applications (2019)
  • Champion, Innovative Idea Competition on Solid Waste Management, poster titled “Waste is not waste until wasted” (2018)
  • PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
  • Student Member (ID 1745189), American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • Student Member (ID 732165), European Geosciences Union (EGU)
  • Student Member (ID 3428), International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE)
  • Associate Member (ID 1807), Bangladesh Institute of Planners (BIP)