miscellaneous . honours & awards

• Interstellar Initiative Early Career Investigator Award, 2020 (presented jointly by the New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS) and the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development which recognizes the world's most promising Early Career Investigators).
  
• Bangladesh Academy of Science (BAS) Gold Medal Award-2016 in Physical Sciences (Junior Group).
  
• Invited young researcher at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum (prestigious meeting with the Turing, Fields, Abel and Nevanlinna Laureates), 2017.
  
• Heidelberg Laureate Forum, 2017 (September 24-29, Heidelberg, Germany) travel award from the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation.
  
• Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (Hawaii, January 3-7, 2013) travel award from the National Library of Medicine/National Institutes of Health.
  
• Graduate Dean's Prestigious Fellowship, UT Austin (2012-2013)
  
• Graduate Dean's Prestigious Fellowship, UT Austin (2011-2012)
  
• Graduate Dean's Prestigious Fellowship, UT Austin (2010-2011)
  
• Dean's Excellence Award from the College of Natural Sciences, UT Austin (Fall 2010)
  
• International Fulbright Science and Technology PhD Award 2010.
  
• Dean's List Award for academic excellence in all completed levels (years), BUET.
  
• University Merit Scholarship for academic excellence in all terms (semesters), BUET.
  
• Khatimunnesa and Md. Hanif Laskar Trust Fund Scholarship, BUET.
  
• Dhaka Education Board Scholarship for excellence (5th) in the HSC examination.
  
• Dhaka Education Board Scholarship for excellence (19th) in the SSC examination.
  
• Placed 1st (talent pool) in the Junior Scholarship Examination, 1998
  
• Champion in a Speech Competition on "Women's Rights", Narayanganj.