BIO - About Ali Saaem
Ali is a student at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA. He is in the process of completing dual degrees: BE in Computer Engineer (Secure Network Systems Design) and ME in Computer Engineering (Micro-electromechanical Systems). Both are scheduled to be completed simultaneously by 2006. He also has a Creative-Writing Masters from NYU pending.
Ali completed his undergraduate thesis with the Multimedia Systems and Network Communications (MSyNC) Laboratory at SIT. He is currently a research assistant with the Microstructure Research Group involved in bio-electrical research work.
OK...three different names: one person! That's me! I am known as Ishtiaq or Ali or Saaem depending on where I am on the globe. Most of my friends from back in Asia call me Ishtiaq, my family calls me Saaem and friends in Europe/US call me Ali. I am originally from Bangladesh. Hailing from the port city of Chittagong, but grew up in Dhaka, the capital. I've lived in Dhaka, Singapore, India, London and now New Jersey.
Globe-trotting is one of my passions! I finished my high-school in a U.S embassy school, American Int. School/Dhaka, in Bangladesh with a graduating class of 27 seniors!! Talk about small. But it was large in diversity. I got bombarded with different cultures as only one other student was a Bangladeshi national. Koreans/Dutch/Swiss/Brits/Yanks/Aussies...including 'Fosters for Beeerrrr' types and a whole load of others. The only fact I rue of being in such a diverse community was that after graduation, the 27 has spread all over the world literally. I have contact with a few and fewer who I get to see once a while (ones in US and one in Dhaka), but others I lost touch. If you just happen to be one of those by chance please drop me a line.