Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME)

CONTACT INFORMATION/ OFFICE LOCATION

Department of Biomedical Engineering, 3^rd Floor, Tower-4, MIST.

Mirpur Cantonment, Dhaka-1216, Bangladesh.

 

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS 

• M.Sc. in Bioengineering

           University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA. Duration: Aug 2015 -Dec 2017

• B.Eng. in Biomedical/Medical Engineering

            The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR. Duration: Sep 2011–Jun 2014

• Summer Program Student

            Engineering, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in China, Shanghai, China. Duration: July 2012

• Summer Trainee

            HKU Industrial Summer Training, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR. Duration: June 2012-July 2012

 

MEMBERSHIP/ PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

[1] Student member, Biomedical Engineering Society (2017-present)

[2] President, Bangladeshi Students Association, UIUC (2016-2017)

[3] Student member of Hong Kong Medical & Healthcare Device Industries Association Limited (2012-2014)

[4] Student member of Hong Kong Institute of Engineers (2011-2014)

 

AWARDS/ HONORS

1. Finalist (top 5), Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Student Technology prize for Primary Healthcare (2017)

2. 1st Place, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Student Technology prize for Primary Healthcare (2016)

3. Dean’s Honors List 2012

4. HKU Foundation Scholarship for Outstanding International Students 2011-14

5. The Reaching Out Award 2013

6. 100th percentile scores in Physics and Chemistry in the A Level exams

7. Country highest scorer in Biology and Chemistry in the AS Level exams

8. The Daily Star Award 2012

9. Second position at IUB Math and Science Olympiad 2011

10. Second position at the National Chemistry Olympiad 2009/10

11. The Daily Star Award 2010

 

PROFESSIONAL/ WORK EXPERIENCE

Military Institute of Science and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh Assistant Professor (promoted from Lecturer in Jan 2021) Jan 2020 –present

Department of Biomedical Engineering

 Teach undergraduate courses, supervise final year thesis students, and perform relevant administrative duties

 Perform a key role in developing the curriculum and laboratory facilities of the department

 Team Lead (Technical) in departmental consultancy project to assess and validate Medical Gas Pipeline System in public hospitals and medical colleges of Bangladesh (funded by the Global Fund and implemented by the United Nations)

 Production lead in MIST Hand Sanitizer Development project

10B Solutions, Inc (https://1010.so/) Dhaka, Bangladesh Project Coordinator (Little Jamuna River) Jul 2022 – Jul 2023

 Act as technical lead to oversee the construction of a 50,000-liters microalgae production facility

 Establish key partnerships with laboratories and maintain relationships with regulators, mid-high-level government officials, and regional leaders for the smooth functioning of project

FLEEKY Dhaka, Bangladesh Co-Founder and Product Lead Mar 2020 – Jul 2022

 Developed novel formulations of both playdough and slime using locally available raw materials and frugal manufacturing techniques

 Helped set up 40+ distribution pipelines in both online and offline retail and wholesale stores

North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Lecturer (Part-Time) Jan 2019 – May 2020 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

 Courses taught: Introduction to Engineering Drawing and Introduction to Bioinformatics

 Made the contents of the Engineering Drawing course public: AutoCAD 2020 tutorials in Bangla

 

AREAS OF RESEARCH INTERESTS

Research Domain: MEMS, microfabrication, Nucleic acid based assay designing.

 

List of PUBLICATIONS

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

1. Nabi T., Riyed T.H., Ornob A. Deep learning based predictive modeling to screen natural compounds against TNF-alpha for the potential management of rheumatoid arthritis: Virtual screening to comprehensive in silico investigation. PLOS ONE 19(12): e0303954 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0303954
2. Ganguli A., Ornob A., Spegazzini N., Liu Y. et al. Pixelated spatial gene expression analysis from tissue. Nat Communications 9, 202 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02623-9
3. Ganguli A.*, Ornob A.*, Yu, H. et al. Hands-free smartphone-based diagnostics for simultaneous detection of Zika, Chikungunya, and Dengue at point-of-care. Biomedical Microdevices 19, 73 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10544-017-0209-9 (*equal contribution)
4. Chen W., Yu H., Sun F., Ornob A. et al. Mobile Platform for Multiplexed Detection and Differentiation of DiseaseSpecific Nucleic Acid Sequences, Using Microfluidic Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification and Smartphone Detection. Analytical Chemistry 89 (21) 11219-11226 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.7b02478
5. Duarte-Guevara P., Duarte-Guevara C., Ornob A., Bashir R. On-chip PMA labeling of foodborne pathogenic bacteria for viable qPCR and qLAMP detection. Microfluidics and Nanofluidics 20, 114 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10404-016-1778-2

 

MSc THESIS (Abstract published):

1. Loop mediated isothermal amplification based detection of equine respiratory pathogens using a portable, smartphone-based setup, Akid Ornob

 

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

1. Mourin TT., Rupanti RH., Tasnim N., Quarishi SA., Ornob A., Ashrafuzzaman M. Effect of Changes in Skin Conductance, Heart Activity at Constant Temperature for Detecting Binary Pain by Analyzing Nociceptive Stimulation. Second International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering (ICETE 2023), 2023, pp. 190- 198, doi: 10.2991/978-94-6463-252-1_22.
2. Yashfe SMS., Ashrafee A., Rahatuzzaman M. Ornob A*. A 3D Printed Shape Optimized and Modular Trans-Tibial Pylon with Adaptive Load Capacity. (Accepted in 14th ICME, International Conference on Mechanical Engineering, December 18-19, 2023)
3. Riyed TH., Nabi T., Dutta A., Anik FW., Hasan MK., Ornob A*. Gestational Diabetes Prediction in Pregnancy: A Machine Learning and Data Preprocessing Approach. 2023 26th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, (ICCIT), December 13-15, 2023), Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICCIT60459.2023.10441112. 
4. A. Ornob, S. O. Ahalam and J. A. An-Nur, "Towards Smartphone Based Complete Blood Cell Estimation from Blood Smear Images," 2023 Fifth International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Communication Technologies (ICECCT), Erode, India, 2023, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/ICECCT56650.2023.10179699.
5. Fu Sun, Weili Chen, Hojeong Yu, Akid Ornob, Ryan Brisbin, Anurup Ganguli, Vinay Vemuri, Piotr Strzebonski, Guangzhe Cui, Karen Allen, Smit Desai, Weiran Lin, David Nash, David Hirschberg, Ian Brooks, Rashid Bashir, Brian Cunningham, “Multiplexed Detection of Infectious Diseases with Microfluidic Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification and a Smartphone,” IEEE-NIH 2017 Special Topics Conference on Healthcare Innovations and Point-of-Care Technologies, 241-244, 2017.
6. Brian T, Cunningham. ; Long, Kenneth D.; Yu, Hojoeng; Chen, Weili; Sun, Fu; Ornob, Akid; Ganguli, Anurup; Lumetta, Stephen, “Mobile biosensing using the sensing capabilities of smartphone cameras,” 2017 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Advanced Materials and Processes for RF and THz Applications, IMWS-AMP, 1-3, 2017.
7. Akid Ornob, Anurup Ganguli, Hojeong Yu, Gregory Damhorst, Weili Chen, Fu Sun, Abdul Muyeed Bhuiyan, Brian T. Cunningham, Rashid Bashir, “Simultaneous smartphone-based detection of Zika, Chikungunya, and Dengue viruses directly from a drop of blood”, Center for Advanced Research in Drying (CARD) meeting, 2017 (Illinois, USA).
8. Akid Ornob, Anurup Ganguli, Hojeong Yu, Gregory Damhorst, Weili Chen, Fu Sun, Abdul Bhuiya, Brian Cunningham, Rashid Bashir, “Simultaneous Detection of Zika, Dengue, and Chikunguna Viral Targets Directly from Whole Blood”, BMES Annual General Meeting, 2017 (Phoenix, Arizona),
9. Akid Ornob, Anurup Ganguli, Hojeong Yu, Gregory Damhorst, Weili Chen, Fu Sun, Abdul Bhuiya, Brian Cunningham, Rashid Bashir, “On-chip Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) for the multiplexed detection of flavivirus from a drop of blood”, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Bioengineering Symposium, 2017 (Champaign, Illinois).
10. Akid Ornob, Anurup Ganguli, Hojeong Yu, Gregory Damhorst, Weili Chen, Fu Sun, Abdul Bhuiya, Brian Cunningham, Rashid Bashir, “On-chip Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) for the multiplexed detection of flavivirus from a drop of blood”, Midwest BMES conference, 2016 (Champaign, Illinois).
11. C. Duarte Guavera, V. Swaminathan, P. Duarte Guavera, B. Reddy, A. Ornob, J. Huang, Y. Liu, C. Wen, Y. Huang, R. Bashir, “On-chip electrical detection of food-borne pathogens using a Dual-gated BioFET array”, Center for Food Safety Engineering (CFSE) Annual Meeting, 2017 (West Lafayette, Indiana).

 

PRESENTATIONS

1. Oral presentation: “Simultaneous Detection of Zika, Dengue, and Chikunguna Viral Targets Directly from Whole Blood”, BMES Annual General Meeting, 2017 (Phoenix, Arizona), Akid Ornob, Anurup Ganguli, Hojeong Yu, Gregory Damhorst, Weili Chen, Fu Sun, Abdul Bhuiya, Brian Cunningham, Rashid Bashir


2. Poster presentation: “On-chip Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) for the multiplexed detection of flavivirus from a drop of blood”, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Bioengineering Symposium, 2017 (Champaign, Illinois). Akid Ornob, Anurup Ganguli, Hojeong Yu, Gregory Damhorst, Weili Chen, Fu Sun, Abdul Bhuiya, Brian Cunningham, Rashid Bashir


3. Poster presentation: “On-chip Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) for the multiplexed detection of flavivirus from a drop of blood”, Midwest BMES conference, 2016 (Champaign, Illinois). Akid Ornob, Anurup Ganguli, Hojeong Yu, Gregory Damhorst, Weili Chen, Fu Sun, Abdul Bhuiya, Brian Cunningham, Rashid Bashir.

 

PATENTS

1. System for rapid, portable, and multiplexed detection and identification of pathogen-specific nucleic acid sequences. Patent Application No: PCT/US2018/023338.

SUBJECTS/ COURSES TAUGHT

Theory	Sessional
Biofluid Mechanics & Heat Transfer Biomedical Transport Fundamentals Biomaterials Biomechanics Molecular Biology for Engineers Physical & Bio-organic Chemistry Drug Development and Delivery Systems Motion Analysis & Rehabilitation Engineering Bioelectricity Bioinformatics	CAD in Biomedical Engineering Biomaterials and Biomechanics Biomedical Engineering Design Biofluid Mechanics & Heat Transfer