Jahid Inam Chowdhury

Inam earned his B.Sc. in Chemistry from Shahjalal University of Science and Technology in Bangladesh. In Fall 2022, he joined the Master’s program in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), where he was awarded a Graduate Teaching Assistantship. During his time at UTRGV, he gained valuable experience as a graduate teaching assistant and completed his Master’s degree in Summer 2024.In Fall 2024, Inam joined the Ohodnicki Lab at the University of Pittsburgh, where he completed his M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering with a thesis entitled “Physics-Guided Design of Composite Thin-Film Fiber Coatings for CO2 Sensing.” His research focused on distributed fiber optic chemical sensing, with an emphasis on the optical sensing and modeling of the distributed responses of chemical sensing layers.