Arnab Chowdhury

116/116A Malibagh, Dhaka, Bangladesh | +8801521535971 | 1904188@ce.buet.ac.bd | linkedin.com/in/arnabz

Education
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology 2020 - Present
1st year Undergraduate, Civil Engineering  
Cantonment English School & College | Science 2010 - 2019
HSC - 5.00 (2019)
SSC - 5.00 (2017)

Skills and Interests

Career Interest: To do something impactful in the lines of origami, and fluid mechanics.
Expertise: Physical Optics, Thermodynamics, Waves and Oscillations, Cosmology (Evolution and
thermodynamic history), Time Series Analysis, Data analysis (Excel and AstroPy)
Language: C/C++, JavaScript (Processing JS), Latex, Python, GSuite
Computational Softwares: MATLAB, Mathematica, AutoCAD

Experience
Jury Member and Team Leader | Global e-Competition on Astronomy and Astrophysics (GeCAA)
   2020 - Present
● Led Team Bangladesh to winning 2 Silvers, 3 Bronzes and 2 Honourable Mentions and the best prize
for group contest amongst 40 participating countries.
● Delivered lectures on cosmology, binary stars, and celestial mechanics to the top performers from
Bangladesh team along with practical training.
● Prepared and moderated questionnaire and graded student responses as one of the youngest
members of GeCAA Jury Board.

Academic Team Leader and Mentor | Bangladesh Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics,
Bangladesh    2020 - Present
● Created a balanced problem-solving astrophysics curriculum, creating problem sets for tests,
training the national team.
● Social outreach, event coordinating nationwide.

Academic Team Member | Bangladesh Physics Olympiad, Bangladesh    2020 – Present 

● Responsibilities include- social outreach, creating problem sets for tests, problem set solving,
regional and national round copy checking.
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Question Setter and Curator | Bangladesh Math Olympiad, Bangladesh    2020 – Present 
● Responsibilities include- social outreach, creating problem sets for tests, problem set solving,
regional invigilation and copy checking.
● Conducting math camps at remote places of the country.

Involvement and Outreach

Mentor | Paradox Physics School, Chittagong, Bangladesh          2017 - 2020 
● Training school students in methods of physics problem-solving and data analysis for free. Partially
trained them focusing on Olympiads. Taking workshops on astrophysics.

Physics Academic Curator | Gonitzoggo, Bangladesh    2020 - Present

● In charge of moderating the Physics archive and the contest section on a problem-solving website.

Honors and Awards

Team Leader, Bangladesh   Estonia, Online - 2020 
1st Global e-Competition on Astronomy and Astrophysics -
Led team to win the first ever Silver medal on behalf of Bangladesh and Best Team Award on group contest.  
1st Prize, Bangladesh Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics 2018
Honorable Mention, Bangladesh Physics Olympiad        2018
2nd Runner-up, Bangladesh Math Olympiad        2013