Silicon Valley Bangladeshi Women in STEM (SVBW STEM)

Tanzia Ahmed Nijhum, MD is an Internal Medicine Physician at Kaiser Permanente Health Center in Milpitas, California. She previously worked as a clinical research assistant at Harvard Medical School and as a physician in a rural area for a Johns Hopkins University project to decrease maternal and infant mortality rates.  Nijhum's research work on telehealth applications for community health workers in rural Bangladesh has been published in “BMC Medical informatics and Decision Making”, “Journal of Critical Care Medicine”, and “Journal for American College of Physician”. She has also worked as a clinical observer at the University of Illinois, University of Chicago, and Indiana University. Nijhum worked as a physician for a project led by Johns Hopkins University to decrease maternal and infant mortality rates in a rural area. This experience motivated her to continue working for the underprivileged population. She volunteered to work for extra months in the Intensive Care Unit duri...

Nazia Khan Karim is a Senior Director of Program Management at BigLeaf Networks. She has over 16 years of experience in various roles such as Project Management, Process Improvement, Business Analysis, Quality Management, Development, and IT Support Management.  She has worked in the information technology industry for the services industry, Energy industry (Oil & Gas, renewable), and in Financial domains. Nazia has previously worked as a Project Manager and IT support Analyst for Koch Industries, and as an IT QA Analyst for Wolters Kluwer.  Nazia holds two MBAs in General Management and Strategic Marketing Management from Plymouth State University and a BBA in Management Information Systems and from Wichita State University. Additionally, Nazia runs the All Women Fitness Club in the Bay Area, where she invites local women to participate in various fitness activities and organizes events.

Mita Alamgir has been working as a Technical Project Manager in the Legal Operations team at Gilead Sciences for two years. She is responsible for integrating their CLM (Contract Lifecycle Management system) with SAP and Ariba, also combining TeamConnect ELN with SAP and a Data & Analytics project for the Procurement team.  Mita is an experienced Software Project and Program Manager working in the Bay Area for 35 years. She started as a Scientific Programmer at Molecular Design Limited (Biovia) and became an Engineering Manager delivering multiple releases of 2 core products Cheshire and MDL Draw. She then worked at OSISoft, LLC (Aveeva) as an Engineering Project Manager and then as a Project Manager working on very visible and challenging projects in both Customer Services and Support and IT.  She handled 3 major releases of the PI Data Archive, delivered the first release of the PI Square Community, was Project Manager for Live Library website, handled the upgrade of Epi...

Farhana is currently an L7 software engineer at Google, where she leads the GCP reliability team responsible for ensuring that Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is reliable for its external customers.  She specializes in developing centralized solutions that make architectural changes throughout the platform, enabling GCP to meet its reliability promises in a cost-effective way. Her key strength lies in her ability to navigate complex problems and build consensus around deeply contentious decisions across multiple organizations, based on structured, technical influence. Farhana has been an SRE at Google for 9+ years, and she has previously led critical network infrastructures for the company. Prior to joining Google, Farhana completed her PhD in Computer Science from UIUC, where she specialized in energy-efficient communication in dense wireless networks. She also holds a BSc in Computer Science from BUET, where she was the first in her undergraduate class and was awarded a gold medal fo...

Nabila is currently working as a Signal Integrity Engineer at Cisco Systems. Her responsibility is to ensure the signal integrity of Cisco's next-generation high speed Secure Firewall Hardware Appliances which involves best-of-class CPUs, switches, and custom hardware. These systems deliver the security performance and functionality that scale to meet the needs of future Internet traffic. She earned her Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from San Jose State University. Nabila loves to travel and explore different cuisines from around the world. She enjoys cooking and food photography. Her passion for cooking led her to start her own Instagram food blog (joy_of_c00king ) where she shares her kitchen adventures. She is a new mom and enjoys every moment with her one month old baby boy.

Mohsina Islam is currently working as a Senior Technical Manager at ChemTrace Analytical Testing and Solutions, a Business unit of UCT (Ultra Clean Technology) in Fremont, California. She earned her undergraduate degree in Applied Chemistry and Chemical Technology from University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Then she completed her Master’s in Chemistry in 2001, from Tuskegee University in Alabama. She went on to pursue postgraduate learning in Chemistry and was awarded a PhD from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas in 2006. She started her career in Silicon Valley as a Senior Research Chemist in 2006 at ChemTrace which was a business division under Applied Materials. She has over 16 years of experience in project management, quality assurance and chemical analysis for semiconductor and other manufacturing industries. Her expertise is on analysis of trace metal impurities in chemicals/ inorganic solids/ wafers/ UPW/ clean room materials by ICP-MS and ICP-OES. Outside of corporate world, Mo...

Munia Rahman is a Client Partner at IBM-Taos Consulting/Hybrid Cloud Services. Prior to this, she worked as a Business Development & Cloud Executive at Taos, also in the San Francisco Bay Area. Munia has over 8 years of experience in business development and cloud services, including a role as an AWS Account Manager Strategic Startups at Amazon Web Services (AWS), and a role as a National Account Manager Enterprise Sales at INAP. Rahman received recognition for her sales achievements, including being a TOP Rep MRR in the Company and attending the President's Club in both 2016 and 2017. Munia Rahman holds a BS in Computer Engineering from San Jose State University. While at SJSU, she was an active member of several societies, including Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor Society, Top 15% rank), Society of Women Engineers (SWE), and Society for Computer Engineers (SCE). In addition, she was awarded the 2005 Global Technology Initiative (GTI) scholarship, which is awarded to the top 21...

  Nadia Hossain is a distinguished client service specialist at Mercer Advisors, a role she has held since 2023. Her career in the corporate and private banking industry spans several decades. Her journey began with esteemed financial institutions such as First Republic Bank and Fremont Bank, where she used her expertise and built a solid foundation in finance. At Mercer Advisors, Nadia is known for her personalized approach to client service, diligently working to meet and exceed the financial needs of her clients. Her dedication to understanding each client's unique situation allows her to provide tailored assistance, ensuring that they achieve their financial goals effectively and efficiently. Nadia's objective is not only to serve her clients but also to continually enhance her skills through ongoing education and practical experience in the financial sector. Nadia has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Informatics, and a minor in Financial Accounting, from Indepe...