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Awards

March 2019 Grace Hopper Conference for Women in Computing, Faculty Scholar

March 2019 Fellowship, XXIV South Asian Feminist Capacity Building Course on Gender, Sustainable Livelihoods, Human Rights and Peace

September 2019 Best Paper Award, CHI

May 2018 IAPP Distinguished Privacy Award,SOUPS

March 2019 ACM SIGCHI Development Grant

August 2013 New Investigators Award (b), Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing

August 2009 New Investigators Award (a), Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing

February 2002 Deans Honour, University of Dhaka
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Other Memberships/Affiliations
Global Young Academy

Degrees:

2010
Doctorate     Computing and Information Technology
2004
Master     Computing and Information Technology
2000
Undergraduate     Computing and Information Technology

Publications resulting from Research
Recent Selected Publications

[1] Sambasivan, N., Checkley, G., Batool, A., Gaytán-Lugo, L. S., Matthews, T., Consolvo, S., & Churchill, E. (2018, August). “Privacy is not for me, it’s for those rich women”: Performative Privacy Practices on Mobile Phones by Women in South Asia. In Fourteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security ({SOUPS} 2018). USENIX} Association.

[2]Sambasivan, N., Checkley, G., Ahmed, N., & Batool, A. (2017). Gender equity in technologies: considerations for design in the global south. interactions, 25(1), 58-61. [PDF]

[3]Hossain, Mohammad Sorowar, Md Mahbub Hasan, Muhammad Sougatul Islam, Salequl Islam, Miliva Mozaffor, Md Abdullah Saeed Khan, Nova Ahmed et al. "Chikungunya outbreak (2017) in Bangladesh: Clinical profile, economic impact and quality of life during the acute phase of the disease." PLoS neglected tropical diseases 12, no. 6 (2018): e0006561.

[4]Abeer, I. A., Saha, A., Sinha, A., & Ahmed, N. (2018, September). Reinforcement based learning through communicative Android app for autism personnel. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Adjunct (pp. 132-138). ACM.

[5] Ahmed, N., Raheem, E., Rahman, N., Khan, M. Z. R., Mosabbir, A. A., & Hossain, M. S. (2018). Managing autism spectrum disorder in developing countries by utilizing existing resources: A perspective from Bangladesh. Autism, 1362361318773981.

[6]Ahmed, N., Ghosh, S., Hassan, R. A., Galib, S. I., Azad, A. K., & Syrus, M. A. (2017). A gradient sensing middleware to handle flash flood. Computers & Electrical Engineering, 62, 44-52. [PDF]

[7]Ahmed, N., Syrus, M. A., & Chowdhury, A. (2017, July). Simple Group Photo Sharing Using Facesense. In Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), 2017 IEEE 41st Annual (Vol. 1, pp. 845-850). IEEE.

[8]Ahmed, N., Siddiquee, M. R., Karim, R., Zaman, M., Alam, S. M., & Ashram, S. F. (2017, June). Crazy Crowd Sourcing to Mitigate Resource Scarcity. In Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2017 IEEE 37th International Conference on (pp. 2322-2326). IEEE.

[9] Ahmed, Syed Ishtiaque, Nova Ahmed, Faheem Hussain, and Neha Kumar. "Computing beyond gender-imposed limits." In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Computing within Limits, p. 6. ACM, 2016.

[10]Ahmed, Syed Ishtiaque, Steven J. Jackson, Nova Ahmed, Hasan Shahid Ferdous, Md Rashidujjaman Rifat, A. S. M. Rizvi, Shamir Ahmed, and Rifat Sabbir Mansur. "Protibadi: A platform for fighting sexual harassment in urban Bangladesh." In Proceedings of the 32nd annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems, pp. 2695-2704. ACM, 2014.

Conference of Ethics Science and Technology and Sustainable Development, UNESCO, Ministry of Higher Education, Thailand, Invited speaker
2025
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IAP-Res Conference, Brazil, Invited speaker (2019)
2025
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Interact, India, Invited Speaker
2025
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Interaction Design
2025
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Asian Development Committee Meeting
2025
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ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2025
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ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2025
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ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2025
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International Conference and Anniversary Annual General Meeting of the Global Young Academy
2025
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International Conference and Anniversary Annual General Meeting of the Global Young Academy
2025
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International Conference and Anniversary Annual General Meeting of the Global Young Academy
2025
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International Conference and Anniversary Annual General Meeting of the Global Young Academy
2025
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