Tanzima Hashem has won the 2017 Elsevier Foundation Awards for her work in developed computational approaches to protect the privacy of people accessing location-based services.
The Buet teacher bagged the award for "Early-Career Women Scientists in the Developing World" from the central and South Asia region, the Elsevier Foundation said in a statement last week.
Other winners are María Fernanda Rivera Velásquez of Universidad Nacional de Chimborazo in Ecuador, Felycia Edi Soetaredjo of the Widya Mandala Catholic University Surabaya in Indonesia, Grace Ofori-Sarpong of the University of Mines and Technology in Ghana, and Rania Mokhtar of the Sudan University of Science and Technology.
"The determination, commitment and enthusiasm of these five women are an inspiration to us all, and especially to other women undertaking scientific research in developing countries,” said Jennifer Thomson, president of Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World.
Tanzim's new and innovative solutions allow citizens to have control over their personal and sensitive data on health, habits and whereabouts.
"This award gives me the confidence to fulfil my dream of making user-friendly technology to solve the specific challenges we face in the developing world," she was quoted as saying in the statement.
Winners received $5,000 and an all-expenses-paid trip to the 2017 American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting in Boston where they were honoured on February 18.
Tanzima is an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Buet. She graduated from Buet in 2006 and earned a PhD in computer science and software engineering from the University of Melbourne in 2011.
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