I was born and raised in Dhaka, Bangladesh. I received my BSc in Engineering from the University of Tokyo in Japan. I attended 1-year language program and 4-year undergraduate program in Japan with a fellowship provided by Japanese Ministry of Education (MEXT). While performing my undergraduate research at the Optical near field laboratory, I developed an interest in understanding how materials interact with light, and decided to pursue my phD at Harvard SEAS. 

During my first year of PhD, I worked on the optical metamaterial project in Manoharan lab. While working on this project, I learned about self-assembly and its promise in designing new materials. I started a new project on understanding self-assembly of colloidal spheres on the surface of a cylinder. I designed experiments to realize colloidal cyrstallization and random sequential adsoprtion on a micron-sized cylinder. I have recently started exploring self-assembly on other kinds of surfaces, such as cones and surfaces with negative Gaussian curvature. 

Besides research, I am interested in teaching and have worked as a departmental Pedagogy Fellow at Harvard SEAS in 2017-2018. As a part of the program, I received training from the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning and helped junior phD students improve their teaching skills.