Major Awards, Scholarships and Achievements

    • Winner of ‘Young Innovator Award 2012‘ entitled ‘TR35@Singapore Awards‘ organized by the ‘MIT Technology Review Inc‘ to recognize the top innovators in the Asia-Pacific regions under the age of 35 for Developing Paper Diagnostic for Blood Typing *.
    • Vice-Chancellor’s commendation (2010) for Doctoral Thesis Excellence (known as: Mollie Holman Doctoral Medal) as a recognition of Excellence in PhD Research.
    • Kenneth Hunt Medal (2010) from Monash Engineering Faculty for the Best Engineering PhD Thesis.
    • Finalist for ‘IChemE 2010 Award: the Young Engineer’ of the Year sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Institute of Chemical Engineers’ (IChemE), UK.
    • State Winner (VIC) in ‘2009 AusBiotech-GSK Student Excellence Awards’ for the PhD work on ‘Bioactive Papers’; AUS national award is for the postgrad (PhD) students working in Biotechnology.
    • ‘iCFP2016 Young Scientist Award’ in recognition of the Outstanding Young Research in 2nd International Conference on Food Properties (iCFP2016), Bangkok, Thailand, 2016.
    • Monash Post Graduate Publication Award (2009); Monash Postgraduate Research Travel Grant (2009); Monash Graduate Scholarship (2006-09); Monash Departmental Scholarship (2006-09); Monash Research Scholarship.
    • Selected as one of the ‘Ten High Achieving International Students’ from the Engineering Faculty, Monash University in 2008, as a recognition of Academic Achievements.
    • iCFP2016 Best Paper Award on Mass Transfer Properties, Mass-volume-area related Properties & Mechanical Properties Track for the paper entitled: ‘Analyzing Diffusivity of Formaldehyde in Formalin Treated Fish Samples: ‘Catla catla’’, at the 2nd International Conference on Food Properties (iCFP2016), Bangkok, Thailand, 2016.
    • iCFP2016 Best Paper Award on Health and Wellness & Medicinal Properties Track for the paper entitled: ‘Measuring and Analyzing Dental Erosion Caused by Beverages and Bottled Drinking Water in Bangladesh’, at the 2nd International Conference on Food Properties (iCFP2016), Bangkok, Thailand, 2016.
    • Selected and Featured in the special edition (21st Anniversary, 2012) of Daily Star Bangladesh as one of the ‘Young and Future Leaders of Bangladesh’ working in national and international level.
    • ‘Award of Appreciation’ from the International Conference on Chemical Engineering 2008, Dhaka, Bangladesh, for the contribution to organize ICChE2008 Poster Competition for undergraduate students.
    • BUET Technical Scholarship (2000-04); University Merit Scholarship (BUET).

    * The blood typing work was further developed in Monash Uni, and went to win Australian Eureka Prize for Innovation in Technology.