Miscellaneous Stuff
Besides my academic interests, I am also an amateur Tabla player. I have been trained in the modes of Indian Classical Music, first under Satish Sarker (of Farukkhabad Gharana) at Bulbul Lalitakala Academy and later under Gautam Ghosh (of Benaras Gharana) at Chhayanaut. You can watch one of my performances here.
I am an avid fan of the Pokemon franchise.
I have a lot of interest in Learning how to Learn, i.e, mastering methods to learn things fast, and Personal Information/Knowledge Management Systems (PKMS).
I am also interested in psychotherapeutic interventions to cultivate good mental health and healing. I have a Certification of 80 hours of training in Basic Counselling Skills from Freedom Within, Bangladesh.
Among my volunteer activities, I was the Academic Coordinator of Bangladesh Physics Olympiad in 2018, and an Academic Member of Bangladesh Mathematical Olympiad from 2015-2017, where I contributed to proposing problems and grading scripts at regional olympiads.