Tanzima Hashem, a Bangladeshi professor at BUET, is one of the five women scientists from the developing world who won Elsevier Foundation Awards in 2017. Her research focuses on maintaining user privacy while location-based services are being accessed. She is also noted for organizing the first workshop in Bangladesh on women in computing in 2014.[1][2]

Tanzima Hashem
তানজিমা হাশেম
NationalityBangladeshi
Alma materBangladesh University of Engineering and Technology,
University of Melbourne
AwardsElsevier Foundation Award (2017)
Scientific career
FieldsInternet privacy

Hashem graduated in computer science and engineering at BUET in 2004, earning a master's degree in 2006. She went on to obtain a doctorate from the University of Melbourne, Australia, in 2011.[3] She has also spent short periods in Melbourne from 2012 to 2017, working as an academic research visitor.[4]

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  1. ^ "Women engineers to receive awards for innovative research in developing countries". Elsevier. 16 February 2017. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  2. ^ "Asia's Rising Scientists: Tanzima Hashem". Asian Scientist. 27 October 2017. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  3. ^ "Dr. Tanzima Hashem (ডঃ তানজিমা হাশেম)". Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  4. ^ "Dr Tanzima Hashem". World Science Forum. Retrieved 11 April 2018.

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