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Hunza Irfan
Aspiration Statement
I want to go for a post-graduate degree in Design or Digital Humanities and work on creating a digital platform that empowers women, especially those who are affected by rural poverty.
Core Skills
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- Design Research
- User Experience Design (UED)
- Figma (Software)
- Illustration
- Data Science
- Product Management
- Programming
- Adobe Premiere Pro
- Adobe Illustrator
- GeoJSON
- Quantum GIS
- Service Design
Academic Awards / Achievements
- University of Massachusetts Amherst - Master's in City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning [Sep 2022 - Present]
- Dean’s List, Habib University, Spring 2016
- Habib University Yohsin Scholarship
- Stanford Summer IHP Full Scholarship, 2017
- Impact Challenge, Winner, Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations, 2018
Experience
Leadership / Meta-curricular
- ASPiRE (Association of Scientific Progress in Research and Engineering), Vice President
- Habib University Public Speaking Society, Head of Communication
- Habib University DigilAto Club, Head of Communication
- Habib University Mathematics Symposium, Head of Content
- Habib University Project Uraan, Co-lead Project
- Habib University Public Speaking Society, Vice President
Internship / Volunteer Work
- University of Massachusetts Amherst - Communications Assistant | Facilities & Campus Services [Oct 2022 - Present]
- BridgeLinx Technologies - User Experience Researcher {Dec 2021 - Aug 2022]
- UBL - CX Design Specialist [Sep 2020 - Nov 2021]
- Bank Alfalah Ltd. - Assistant Manager | Customer Experience [Feb 2020 - Aug 2020]
- Beyond The Classroom Education - Junior Trainer [Sep 2018 - Dec 2019]
- Aga Khan University Examination Board - Summer Research Intern [Jul 2018 - Aug 2018]
- Habib University - Teaching Assistant [Jan 2018 - Apr 2018]
- CIRCLE Women - Student Volunteer [Jan 2017 - May 2017]
- Indus Earth Trust, Intern, 2016
- Pakistan Society for Training and Development, Volunteer, 2017
- Aga Khan University, Intern, 2017
- The History Project, Trainer, 2018-2019
Final Year Project
Project Title
Studying the Impact of Rural Electrification in Village Hashim Mir Bahar using Agent-Based Modeling
Description
As part of my FYP, I evaluated the impact of rural electrification using solar panels in the coastal villages of Pakistan. The key indicators of change I considered were education, gender relations, employment and income, and health and security. For this purpose, I have developed an agent-based model using NetLogo that takes in a village’s map and its demographic data and then maps the ability of each household to adapt to the change in the rural electrification program depending on their spatial network and socio-economic conditions. It can be provided with a different set of initial parameters and used to understand the village’s adaptation to different development programs like water access and livelihood too.
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