About

I am an MPhil student at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) studying the Ethics of AI, Data and Algorithms at the University of Cambridge. I currently stand as the CFI student rep, voicing feedback to the Institute for Technology and Humanity. 

Alongside my studies, I conduct research with Partnership for Young London and the Department of International Development at the University of Oxford.

My interests lie at the nexus of technology, society and religion - looking at how emerging technologies can bring public benefit across platforms, individuals, and institutions.

In my spare time, I enjoy working with local communities, having previously engaged with the Mayor's Fund for London, the East London Mosque, upReach, Promoting Economic Pluralism and Shaping Horizons.

I love capturing nature and the built environment. Feel free to support my work @localponders on Instagram!

Above all, I remain committed to promoting social mobility, whether that be teaching, mentoring or coaching.

Happy to connect with anyone from any background who share similar interests or look to spark meaningful conversations.

Born and raised in Hackney, I am proud to be part of a borough that celebrates the diversity of culture.

At times during the school holidays I would wind down with my father and cousins in West Oxfordshire, away from the city. 

I cherish my roots dearly. Thankfully I picked up how to read, write and speak in Bangla at a young age. 

In school, I liked working with numbers and became fascinated with tech. I still enjoy working with numbers to this day.

But the more society seeps into the digital age of information, the more I began questioning the status quo. The more pertinent it became for me to learn how to write and communicate in a multipolar world. This curiosity led me into the disciplines that shape and influence society.  

At university, my focus shifted to understanding how the levers of policy, economics and law cultivate the differences we see across nation states. 

This is what led me to pursue a degree in Land Economy. 

That said, epistemology is something that has intrigued me. 

My religious studies have been an integral part of my life. By experiencing the oral transmission of the Qur'an through recitation, I have come to revere and respect the effort taken to preserve such a unique text that is neither poetry nor prose. From teacher to student, generation by generation, the chain of transmission is something profound. 

In a broader sense, from pen to pixel, information is now widespread and accessible. From the printing press, to the internet, and now AI, the currency of knowledge itself has weakened. 

Where knowledge used to be at the feet of scholars, the sanctity of knowledge, once sacred is now commodified, bartered, manipulated - pretty much exploited and stripped of its dignity. We live in a society where our attention has become the new currency. 

From the ads we see online, to the apps underneath our fingertips - the tiktoks, shorts and reels we revel ourselves with, the items we put in our online basket - the algorithms behind these technologies have disenfranchised the very essence of community and belonging. Indeed, technology has itemised our interactions with one another. For me, tech became less of a hum in the background and started to become more of a bridge for thought.

We find ourselves infected with a digital disease, a disease that has distorted our sense in how knowledge is created, qualified, propagated and preserved. 

Statecraft has found a new lever to play with - where the pen is mightier than the sword, the pixel now commands the pen. Platforms have emerged as the new geopolitical actors driving narrative dynamics of nation states, portraying the inequities and inequalities we see today. 

Taking the tools of Land Economy, this inquiry led me to explore the ethics of AI, data and algorithms.