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  1. Unveiling and Engaging with the Humans of Networking Research

    Article • November 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Tamar Wilner, Nova Ahmed, Laura Gazda

  2. Meena Needs a Computer Now: Co-design Solutions to Barriers using Fictional Inquiry for Women in Computing

    Article • ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, August 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed, Sumit Kumar Kar, Hussain Md. Sahariyar

  3. The Necessary Ingredients for Success of Women in Computing: A 360° Perspective from Students, Professionals and Stakeholders

    Article • ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies, March 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed

  4. Implications of Mobile Financial Service Users' Adaptive Usage Behavior: The Vicious Cycle of Negative Experience, Social Construct, and Confidence

    Article • ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies, March 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed

  5. "If Men andWomenWorked Together,We could Accelerate Growth": Opportunities in the Presence of Gender Stereotype for Robot Olympiad Participants from Bangladesh

    Article • November 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed

  6. A Personalized Communication Application for Children with Autism through a Participatory Design Approach

    Article • November 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed, Sami Uddin

  7. Know Your Users: Towards Explainable AI in Bangladesh

    Article • October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed

  8. A Platform for Connectivity and Synergy between Parents and Teachers of Children with Autism

    Article • ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies, September 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed

  9. Nobody Can See Us: An Overview of Online Dating Site Experiences

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed

  10. Addressing the Technology Learning Divide Using Co-Learning with Familiarization Method

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed

  11. “Now I am Socially Well Respected” - From being Bullied in the Society to being Important Community Member

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Md Ulfat Tahsin, Nova Ahmed

  12. Roles of Technology for Risk Communication and Community Engagement in Bangladesh during COVID-19 Pandemic

    Article • ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies, February 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed

  13. Understanding Driving Stress in Urban Bangladesh: An Exploratory Study, Wearable Development and Experiment

    Article • ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies, February 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed

  14. A Minimalistic Approach to Predict and Understand the Relation of App Usage with Students' Academic Performance

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, September 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ekram Hossain, Nova Ahmed

  15. Making Ethics at Home in Global CS Education: Provoking Stories from the Souths

    Article • ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies, August 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Shaimaa Lazem, Nova Ahmed

  16. Bridging the Gap: Mobile Finance for Low-Literate Users on Smart Feature Phones

    Article • April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed, Tawfique Elahi, Mohammad Rayed, SHAIKH SHAWON AREFIN SHIMON

  17. Advancing HCI Research and Education within and across South Asia

    Article • April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed, Asra Sakeen Wani, Pranjal Protim Borah

  18. HCI Across Borders: Towards Global Solidarity

    Article • April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Delvin Varghese, Dipto Das, Christian Sturm, Nova Ahmed

  19. Note: Importance of Digital Profile Pictures on Social Media Perceived by Different Groups

    Article • June 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dipto Das, Nova Ahmed

  20. Cheating and Morality Problems in the Tertiary Education Level: A COVID-19 Perspective in Bangladesh

    Article • June 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed, Md Ulfat Tahsin

  21. “I Use YouTube Now in COVID”: Understanding Technology Adoption of Indigenous Communities during COVID-19 Pandemic in Bangladesh

    Article • June 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed

  22. Opportunities for Women in Computing: Perspective of Bangladesh

    Article • June 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed

  23. The World is in My Hand Now: Smartphones for Empowering Rural Women in Developing Countries

    Article • June 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Manika Saha, Nova Ahmed

  24. Liberating Stories about a Terrorist Attack

    Article • June 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed

  25. Exploring Technology Usage of Southeast Asian Elderly Women for Better Mental Health during COVID-19 Pandemic

    Article • April 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Tamanna Motahar, Nova Ahmed

  26. Development and Testing of a Low-Cost Water Level Sensor and a Mobile Based Real-time Flood Warning System for the Flash Flood Prone North Eastern Part of Bangladesh

    Article • International Journal of Sensors Wireless Communications and Control, June 2021, Bentham Science Publishers

    Nova Ahmed, Farzana Islam

  27. From the Margins to the Centre: Defining New Mission and Vision for HCI Research in South Asia

    Article • May 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Samia Ibtasam, Dhruv Jain, Lubna Razaq, Professor Pushpendra Singh, Nova Ahmed, Nilavra Bhattacharya

  28. “COVID has made Everyone Digital and Digitally Independent”: Understanding Working Women's DFS and Technology Adoption during COVID Pandemic in Bangladesh

    Article • May 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed

  29. Identifying High and Low Academic Result Holders Through Smartphone Usage Data

    Article • May 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed

  30. Religion and Women’s Intimate Health: Towards an Inclusive Approach to Healthcare

    Article • May 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed

  31. Understanding the Education of Children with Autism in Bangladesh

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, April 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed

  32. Smartphone usage behavior between depressed and non-depressed students

    Article • September 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed

  33. Design thinking around Covid-19

    Article • interactions, July 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed, Rahat Rony

  34. Asian CHI Symposium: HCI Research from Asia and on Asian Contexts and Cultures

    Article • April 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Chat Wacharamanotham, Nova Ahmed, Juho Kim

  35. Designing Digital Payments for Next Billion Users

    Article • April 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed, Lubna Razaq, Dr Mark Perry, Samia Ibtasam

  36. Kotha Bondhu

    Article • April 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed

  37. Understanding drivers wellbeing

    Article • September 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed

  38. Toward Gender-Equitable Privacy and Security in South Asia

    Article • IEEE Security & Privacy, July 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nova Ahmed

  39. Cooperative deployment of Shonabondhu

    Article • May 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Farzana Islam, Nova Ahmed

  40. Digital Silence and Liberating Stories

    Article • May 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed

  41. HCI Across Borders and Intersections

    Article • May 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed

  42. Designing Compassion Cultivating Interactions for New Mothers

    Article • May 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed

  43. "They Don't Leave Us Alone Anywhere We Go"

    Article • May 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed, Elizabeth Churchill

  44. ‘Gender shouldn’t matter because we are all scientists here’: A narration of the panel discussion at the 2nd International Women in Science Without Borders conference

    Article • South African Journal of Science, March 2019, Academy of Science of South Africa

    Nova Ahmed

  45. Development through digital family stories in Bangladesh

    Article • January 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed

  46. Monitoring Driving Stress using HRV

    Article • January 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nova Ahmed

  47. System solution for developing region.

    Article • October 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed, Nova Ahmed

  48. Chikungunya outbreak (2017) in Bangladesh: Clinical profile, economic impact and quality of life during the acute phase of the disease

    Article • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, June 2018, PLOS

    Nova Ahmed

  49. Primary autism screening using vaccination platform

    Article • Autism, May 2018, SAGE Publications

    Mohammad Sorowar Hossain, Nova Ahmed

  50. HCI Across Borders

    Article • April 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed, Christian Sturm

  51. MINION: A Following Robot Using Ultrasonic Wave

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nova Ahmed

  52. Reinforcement based learning through communicative Android app for autism personnel

    Article • January 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed

  53. Gender equity in technologies

    Article • interactions, December 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed

  54. Optimized route planer application

    Article • December 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nova Ahmed

  55. Working with Women in ICTD

    Article • November 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed

  56. A gradient sensing middleware to handle flash flood

    Article • Computers & Electrical Engineering, August 2017, Elsevier

    Nova Ahmed

  57. Simple Group Photo Sharing Using Facesense

    Article • July 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nova Ahmed

  58. Crazy Crowd Sourcing to Mitigate Resource Scarcity

    Article • June 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nova Ahmed

  59. CHI 2017 Stories Overview

    Article • May 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed, ELIZABETH ROSENZWEIG ROSENZWEIG

  60. An improved and interactive system to fulfill basic human healthcare needs

    Article • December 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nova Ahmed

  61. Protibadi next

    Article • September 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed

  62. Softsense

    Article • September 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed

  63. My Code in My Native Tone

    Article • June 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed

  64. Computing beyond gender-imposed limits

    Article • January 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed

  65. Discussing about Sexual Harassment (Breaking Silence)

    Article • January 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed

  66. Poster

    Article • January 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed

  67. ProtibaadiNext: A Low Cost Wearable System to Deal with Sexual Harassment in Bangladesh

    Article • January 2016, Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (ICST)

    Nova Ahmed

  68. ShonaBondhu: a cloud based system to handle flash flood

    Article • January 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nova Ahmed

  69. Map matching for error prone GPS data on a sparse road network and predicting travel time of a route

    Article • December 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nova Ahmed

  70. Electrical and computer engineering laboratory education for female undergraduate students: Challenges and solutions from an urban perspective of Bangladesh

    Article • July 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nova Ahmed

  71. BanglaCloud: A cloud infrastructure with abandoned computers

    Article • May 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nova Ahmed

  72. Bap re Bap!

    Article • January 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed

  73. Dynamic Load Sharing to Maximize Resource Utilization Within Cloud Federation

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nova Ahmed

  74. Entering the dream world of computers

    Article • January 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed

  75. Poster

    Article • January 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed

  76. ChaScript: Breaking language barrier using a bengali programming system

    Article • December 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nova Ahmed

  77. Dermatological disease detection using image processing and artificial neural network

    Article • December 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nova Ahmed

  78. Computer vision based road traffic accident and anomaly detection in the context of Bangladesh

    Article • May 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nova Ahmed

  79. Hybrid cloud infrastructure to handle large scale data for bangladesh people search (BDPS)

    Article • May 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nova Ahmed

  80. Implementation of flash flood monitoring system based on wireless sensor network in Bangladesh

    Article • May 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nova Ahmed

  81. Protibadi

    Article • January 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed

  82. mHealth: Blood donation service in Bangladesh

    Article • May 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nova Ahmed

  83. Android mobile application: Remote monitoring of blood pressure

    Article • December 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nova Ahmed

  84. An Adaptive Approach for Video Streaming and Evaluation over Bluetooth Network

    Article • September 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nova Ahmed

  85. Internet exchange points: A context of Bangladesh

    Article • December 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nova Ahmed

  86. RFID Middleware Systems: A Comparative Analysis

    Article • July 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nova Ahmed

  87. A path based reliable middleware framework for RFID devices

    Article • April 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nova Ahmed

  88. GuardianAngel: An RFID-based indoor guidance and monitoring system

    Article • March 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nova Ahmed

  89. Reliable framework for unreliable RFID devices

    Article • March 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nova Ahmed

  90. Load shedding based resource management techniques for RFID data

    Article • April 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nova Ahmed

  91. Defining virtualization based system abstractions for an indoor assistive living for elderly care

    Article • January 2009, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed

  92. Reliable framework for RFID devices

    Article • January 2008, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nova Ahmed

  93. Streamline: scheduling streaming applications in a wide area environment

    Article • Multimedia Systems, May 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nova Ahmed

  94. RF2ID: A Reliable Middleware Framework for RFID Deployment

    Article • January 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nova Ahmed

  95. Streamline: a scheduling heuristic for streaming applications on the grid

    Article • January 2006, SPIE

    Nova Ahmed

  96. Middleware Systems for Sensor Network

    Article • IGI Global

    Nova Ahmed

  97. Gene Sequence Alignment on a Public Computing Platform

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nova Ahmed

  98. Parallel Algorithm for Multiple Genome Alignment on the Grid Environment

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nova Ahmed