Professor Dr. M. Feroze Ahmed was born in a respectable Muslim Family in a village named West Nizra in Gopalganj P.S. and District, in a typical flood plain of Bangladesh where the area remained submersed around half of the year. Boat was the only mode of communication during flood but now the area is hardly flooded and communication by boat has been replaced by rickshaw and engine driven vehicles of various types on interconnected rural roads. The village was surrounded by beels full of water lily and lotus but gradually they are disappearing with reduction of water. His Farther’s name is Md. Rokanuddin Munshi and | ||||||
mother’s name is Bhanu Begum. The family was educated for last few generation in the area and the people around gave the title “Munshi” to the family and Professor Ahmed is last descendent of the family to carry the title by affixing “M” in the name which stands for “Munshi” but many confuse it as “Muhammad’. Dr. M. Feroze Ahmed is married to “Sharifun Nesa”, a nutritionist by education from Nutrition Institute of Dhaka University in first batch. She adopted family name “Ahmed” and became “Sharifun Ahmed” after Marriage. Prof. M. Feroze Ahmed and Mrs. Sharifun Ahmed are blessed with 3 children - Tanvir Ahmed, Sumana Ahmed and Sharmina Ahmed. Tanvir Ahmed was born in Bangladesh and both Sumana Ahmed and Sharmina Ahmed were born in UK, while Prof. Ahmed was doing his PhD and they became British Citizen by birth. All the three children of Prof. Ahmed are very brilliant and all of them secured merit position in all public examinations. Sharifun Ahmed received “Ratnagarva Ma” ( Mother of Jewels) title for excellent academic achievements of all her children in public examinations. |
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Tanvir Ahmed received his B.Sc. Engg (Civil) and M.Sc. Engg. (Civil & Environment) degrees from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET) securing the highest ever CGPA in both Bachelors and Masters degrees in Civil Engineering. He stood first in SSC Exam. by securing highest marks among all Education Boards in Bangladesh in 1994 and got Prime Minister’s Gold medal for his brilliant result in SSC Examination. He also received Gold Medal awarded by BUET for securing highest CGPA in Civil Engineering. He continued his academic excellence at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA during his Ph.D. program which was supported by a number of distinguished fellowships (Schoettler Fellowship, Martin Family Fellowship for Sustainability). He also received the prestigious The Maseeh Award for his inspirational teaching in undergraduate courses at MIT securing highest vote from students. He has published several journal papers in very high impact journals such as Science, PNAS, Nano | ||||||
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Letters, Integrative biology and so on based on his research at MIT. |
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Sharmina Ahmed also did her B.Sc. in CSE from BUET and M.Sc. in CSE from North Carolina State University, USA and worked at Intel Corporation at Intel Head Office in Portland, USA for about 5 years, now she is working as software engineer at Applied Materials in Silicon Valley in San Francisco. She is married to Dr. Sajjad Rahman B.Sc. in EEE from BUET, M.Sc. in EEE from University of Saskatchewan, Canada and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. He also worked at Intel Corporation at Intel Head Office in Portland for about 5 Years, then at Samsung and presently working at Apple Computers in Silicon Valley in San Francisco, USA. They have on son, Ryan. |
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