Civil & Environmental Engineer |
Into smart ideas, sustainability and doing something that actually matters |📍FSU

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I conduct research at Farner’s Lab under Dr. Jeffrey Farner focusing on the behavior and removal of micro- and nanoplastics in water systems. My work involves batch adsorption. More details is in the added file.

Laboratory Experience

Exploring how biochar can remove micro- and nanoplastics through adsorption and filtration processes.

Research Overview

As a part of an assignment for my Foundations of Entrepreneurship and Leadership course, the founder of waffle time was interviewed by me. The takeaways were the story behind his entrepreneurship, the business and how they operate.

Interview with the founder of "Waffle Time Bangladesh"

Held at EMK Center, Dhaka
It provides map data and helps during any natural environmental disaster so that mappers can identify houses and locals to help and volunteer. The contributors include enthusiast mappers, GIS professionals, engineers running the OSM servers, humanitarians mapping disaster-affected areas,
and many more.

Workshop on Open Street Mapping with humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team by Map4Resilience 

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I worked  as a Trip Leader at Wander Woman, one of country's leading travel organizations. I led 12 trips in total. This work opportunity has helped me grow as a professional. I have aced leadership quality, effective communication, work under pressure, customer service, negotiation and time management. Being an avid traveler, it has been a great opportunity for me as I got to travel a lot. 

All my travel stories, photos and videos are available on my Instagram. 

Working in Travel Industry

Worked as a TA in the following courses:
• Environmental and Hydraulic Engineering laboratory 
• Introduction to Environmental Engineering 
• Environmental Engineering 
• Remediation Engineering

Graduate Teaching Assistant at FAMU-FSU College of Engineering

Studying biochar-based adsorption and filtration to understand micro- and nanoplastic transport and removal.

Biochar in removing MNPs

Professional  & Academic Experience

Collaboration with 6 Yards Story Bangladesh

Wearhouse Bangladesh Winter 2019 Collection Shoot

Wearhouse Bangladesh Boishakh Campaign 2020

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I founded and managed a small bakery business during Covid in 2020, Creamy Delights, in Bangladesh, where I handled product development, customer service, and daily operations. I created a variety of baked goods tailored to local customer preferences while managing orders, budgeting, and marketing through social media. This experience strengthened my skills in entrepreneurship, time management, and customer engagement, while giving me hands-on exposure to running a small business from the ground up.

Story of Creamy Delights

Creamy Delights

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I have an evolving travel background shaped by exploring diverse places and experiences, combined with a strong interest in storytelling through content creation. My journey reflects a curiosity for culture, people, and everyday moments, which I try to translate into engaging digital content such as reels and voice-over scripts. By blending personal experiences with creative narration, my aim is to create relatable, visually appealing, and informative content that captures both the essence of a place and the emotion of the experience. 

Traveling & Content Making

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Paper Title: Factor Analysis of Service Quality Attributes Related to Passenger Satisfaction for Kamalapur Railway Station.

The aim of this study is to examine the significant factors of railway station service quality based on overall passenger satisfaction. Results offer a perspective of the attributes which have been determined as significant factors and their ranking based on the mean values. Mainly, to suggest some recommendations to improve the service quality of Kamalapur railway station.

Paper presented at the 6th International Conference on Civil Engineering for Sustainable Development(ICCESD)

The Goal – Concepts and Application

Explored project management concepts from Critical Chain by Eliyahu M. Goldratt, including Student Syndrome, multitasking, uncertainty, and buffer management. Applied these concepts to analyze organizational challenges and project inefficiencies in a real-world case study. The project demonstrates how managing human behavior and system constraints can improve project timelines, resource utilization, and operational performance.

Critical Chain Concepts in Project  Management - A Case Study of the Fall of Keya Cosmetics Ltd.

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The final pitch presentation for my "Foundations of Entrepreneurship and Leadership" course was on the business idea that we worked on the whole semester through group assignments. The task was to bring everything together and present as a real world business pitch presentation. The presentation was uploaded as a YouTube video. The link is added here.

Business Pitch Presentation- "GAME DAY TRAVEL"

The study area was Cypress Creek Watershed. This project focuses on Low Impact Development (LIDs) in reducing runoff at different scenarios. A model was developed using PCSWMM, data were collected, calibration and validation were done which were presented in the interim reports. These are essential steps in the development and assessment of hydrological or hydraulic models, such as those implemented in PCSWMM. Also, SWMMCAT was used to analyze runoffs under different climate scenarios.

Green Infrastructure & Climate Change Analysis using PCSWMM & SWMM-CAT model

1,4-Dioxane is a heterocyclic organic compound, classified as an ether. It is a colorless liquid with a faint sweet odor similar to that of diethyl ether. It is a likely human carcinogen and has been found in groundwater at sites throughout the United States. The physical and chemical properties and behavior of 1,4-dioxane create challenges for its characterization and treatment. It is highly mobile and does not readily biodegrade in the environment. In this project, two types of bio-reactors were designed (one chemostat reactor and one biofilm reactor) to degrade the 1,4-dioxane from 1 mg/L influent concentration to 0.1 mg/L effluent concentration with a flow rate of 10 million gallons/day for a certain groundwater source. Feasibility was checked for both types of reactors and possible improvements were suggested based on the results. Also some possible ways are included in this report to improvise the current knowledge we have of 1,4-dioxane removal.

Designing Two Bio-reactors to Remove 1,4-Dioxane from a Groundwater

Cryptosporidium is a resilient waterborne pathogen that presents significant challenges for water treatment facilities due to its resistance to conventional disinfection methods like chlorination. This paper provides a comparative analysis of ultraviolet (UV) disinfection and combined UV-ozone disinfection for inactivating Cryptosporidium in water supplies. UV disinfection disrupts microbial DNA, preventing reproduction, while the combined UV-ozone approach enhances inactivation by producing additional oxidative agents that increase pathogen vulnerability. This study evaluates the efficacy, operational costs, energy demands, and environmental impacts of each method, highlighting their respective advantages and limitations. 

A Detailed Review on Comparative Efficacy of UV and UV-Ozone Disinfection Methods for Cryptosporidium Inactivation

Projects

TMSL Consulting Ltd.
•	Monitored construction activities to ensure compliance with engineering drawings, and safety standards.
•	Assisted senior engineers with project planning, technical documentation, and design coordination.
•	Prepared cost estimates and budgets while evaluating project risks and site hazards.
•	Supervised field operations for Railway Bridge Construction, supporting quality control and site inspections.


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