About

Born in a beautiful South Asian country, named Bangladesh, I have spent my childhood learning and performing South Asian Classical Dance. Along the journey, I have joined Children’s Theater  to learn the art of acting and participated in many TV dramas and musicals as a child actress. In 2003 and 2004, I have won National Award for Dancing and Acting in the junior category.

19247905_1006862396188281_6355670300038972669_nIn 2015, I have come to USA as an international student after receiving Provost Scholar’s Award. My love for art and motivation to connect art and technology together with my work led me to choose Computer Engineering along with Math minor in my Sophomore year.

I have worked as a Student Technician from January 2016 to May 2017 at Faculty Computing Service, Hofstra University and was exposed to working in varieties of sectors. I have spent my Fall 2017 semester by teaching students of Progressive School of Long Island scratch and JavaScript programming along with on campus job.

In summer 2017, I am working as a Web Developer Intern at Weill Cornell Medicine. I am still participating in many events such as, hackathons, seminars and volunteering!

Awards

Palantir Women in Tech Scholarship A scholarship to recognize exemplary women in STEM field and encourage them to further pursue their career. AT&T Aspire Scholarship To allow students pursue Udacity Nano degree program. Finished Android Basics Nano degree track.  

Internships

WEB DEVELOPMENT INTERN @ WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE SUMMER 2017, NEW YORK, NY During the summer of 2017, I worked as a Web Development Intern for Weill Cornell Medicine as part of their Application Development team. Weill Cornell Medicine uses Agile software development principles along with Kanban and Scrum methodologies. I used all of these in… Continue reading Internships

Projects

Honors Project I have worked with Gambler’s Ruin problem in Fall 2016 as part of my Probability & Statistics Honors project. I have solved the problem using Markov’s Chain. Gambler’s Ruin Problem Let N ≥ 2 be an integer and let 1 ≤ i ≤ N – 1. Consider a gambler who starts with an initial… Continue reading Projects

Sumaiya has been a Faculty Computing Services Student Technician at Hofstra University since the Fall of 2016.  Her tasks involve managing the computer labs for the School of Engineering and Applied Science and helping faculty with their technical inquiries on a day-to-day basis. Sumaiya works well with her peers and often provides constructive feedback for projects and tasks. She was involved with conducting a student workshop on Python for beginners and played a critical role in installing various operating systems for specialized computers in the engineering lab. Despite her busy schedule, Sumaiya always finds time to learn more about her field of study and is always willing to apply what she learns directly with her job. Sumaiya displays a passion for whatever it is that she does and I recommend her wholeheartedly.  

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Luc Philippe Paulemon