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H.M. Ibtihal Utsho — Computer Engineering · Rose-Hulman ’28

I build for how people actually think.

My first code was written in ink. It got weirder from there.

MIND // cognition · AI · hardware
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8 projects shipped
200+ students mentored
260 miles driven to compete
1 NASA Gold (first Bangladeshi)
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The arcade

Two of my games run right here in your browser — one boots an entire Java VM in WebAssembly, the other a Python runtime. No installs, no demo videos. The actual builds.

Arcade exhibit · Cognitive sim · 2026

DualMind

One keyboard controls two students. Only one of them obeys.

Split-screen roguelite. Every keypress runs through a neurotypical brain and an ADHD brain under a live fMRI-style monitor, and every mechanic cites a real paper. Hyperfocus makes you faster, then bills you.

pure Java, no engine0 libraries, 0 assets
▶ Insert coin WASD drives both
Arcade exhibit · Educational · 2025

Newton's Apple Crisis

Help Newton dodge apples while Leibniz weaponizes calculus.

Arcade dodge game with a 360-question math bank that adapts to your age, courses, and confidence. Get hit, get quizzed; answer wrong and the run ends. Three acts escalate into open calculus war.

pygameplays in browser
▶ Insert coin Arrows. Dodge. Answer.
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Selected work

EXHIBIT 01Assistive robotics · Hardware · 2023–24

Autonomous Elder-Care Robot

A robot that gets the right pill into the right hand on time.

Elder-care robot built around a Raspberry Pi for thinking and an Arduino for doing. Tuning one PID-controlled servo cut pill retrieval from 20 seconds to 7, which matters when the person waiting is 80.

  • Sensor-based navigation, servo-actuated rotary dispenser
Raspberry PiArduinoPID controlServos
Pill retrieval 20s → 7s
EXHIBIT 02Assistive hardware · Embedded · 2022–24

Sign-Language-to-Speech Wearable

Gestures in, speech out, under 250 milliseconds.

A glove with flex sensors and an IMU that recognizes 20+ ASL signs at 80% accuracy. Tested with 10+ deaf and nonspeaking users; the 65% satisfaction score taught me more than the demos did.

  • Whole pipeline runs on Arduino and a Pi
ArduinoRaspberry PiFlex sensorsMPU-6050 IMU
20+ ASL signs80% accuracy<250ms latency

More work

Robotics team · Founder

RoboSics

Six years of robots from scavenged parts, and 260-mile drives to win across Bangladesh.

10+ projects1 pandemic ventilator
ArduinoRaspberry PiCPython
2017–23
Electrical Lead · Team Bangladesh

NASA Rover Challenge

The rover was ready. The flight was two days away. Then March 2020.

Only school team selected
TelemetryControl panelsEmbedded electronics
2019–20
Sports-tech · Founder

Soccer Platform Startup

Pickup soccer in Dhaka shouldn't need three phone calls and a spreadsheet.

30+ turfs researched
Product designMarket researchUX flows
2025
Education · Founder & Instructor

Library Coding Club

Bangladesh's first library coding club, on computers we built ourselves from Raspberry Pis.

200+ mentees10+ workshops
Raspberry Pi 3PythonCmicro:bit
2018–21
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How I got here

Short version: village library to NASA Gold to games about my own brain.

Rural Bangladesh, no computer. I learned programming from a library book and wrote code in ink, with no way to run it. When the laptop finally came, its internet cost one-twelfth of my mom's salary.

Then a robotics team, then a NASA rover cancelled two days before our flight. We built a ventilator instead.

At Rose-Hulman, an ADHD diagnosis turned the curiosity inward. Now I build software that takes brains seriously. Long-term: walk my dog on Mars.

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Recognition

NASA Gold Honor, first Bangladeshi to winSpace Center University, Houston · 2022

Rocket heat shield survived 1000°F.

Electrical Lead, NASA Rover ChallengeTeam Bangladesh · Huntsville · 2020

Built the rover's telemetry and control panels.

Selected for the national “Act Covid-19” callGovernment of Bangladesh · 2020

The ventilator.

10th globally, Arduino Week ExhibitionInternational Arduino Week · 2020

Humanoid home-and-study assistant robot.

Silver Award from the President of BangladeshNational Children's Award · 2019

For a speech-impairment assistive project.

Talent of the Year in ScienceNational Creative Talent Hunt · 2019

Plus 4× district science champion.

Bronze, National High School Programming ContestNHSPC · 2017

Grade 9.

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Toolkit

Languages
PythonCJavaVerilogArduino
Hardware
Raspberry PiArduinoFlex / IMU sensorsPID control3D printing
Software
Java2D / SwingPygameFastAPIPostgreSQLGitPygbag / WASMQuartus PrimeModelSim
Where my head is
Cognition & ADHD modelingApplied AI / LLMsAssistive techRocketryConsciousness
06

Now

B.S. in Computer Engineering

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology · Expected May 2028

Coursework
Object-Oriented Software DevelopmentIntro to Digital SystemsDC CircuitsPractical Security IThe AI Revolution
On campus
Battery Workforce ChallengeSASEDelta Sigma Phi
Paying my way
Kitchen crew, Bon AppétitFraternity dish crewSRC athletic-event staffSGA bike maintenance
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Beyond the work

A guitar in Times Square

Lost my wallet in New York. Busked $250 back with a punk rocker named Devlin.

Animal Care Society

Founded mid-pandemic. 300+ strays fed, 100+ rescued, most of Thakurgaon's street dogs vaccinated.

Clubs I can't quit

200+ library-club mentees, a 1.5K-member science club. I keep going back.

Songwriting

15+ lyrics. The ones I helped my mom write got published by G-Series, a top Bangladeshi label.