Shawdesh Desk:

Bangladeshi engineer Bashima Islam has been named in Forbes 30 under 30 list 2022 under the science category.

Mentioning her name, Forbes uploaded a short profile of Bashima on its website. It wrote: Islam, an incoming assistant professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, is engineering the next generation of internet of things devices to operate without batteries. She is developing intermittently powered devices using solar energy and radio frequency, as well as an acoustic sensing wearable to warn pedestrians of the danger of approaching cars.

Bashima Islam, an assistant professor of Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Boston, completed her PhD from the University of North Carolina in 2021, and BSc in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 2016.

Forbes publishes the names of 30 individuals or organizations in 20 categories each year.

This year Forbes is celebrating a decade of publishing the first 30 under 30 list.