Data visualizationDigital storytellingMultimedia
I make interactive stories, data maps, documentaries and podcasts, and I teach students to make them, across the United States, Bangladesh and China.
Every piece of work, plotted by year and medium. Hover a mark to see what it is, click to jump to it, or filter by medium.
Every answer moves you down a different path. Play the full story to see where this one leads.
Play Race to RefugeA choose-your-path simulation of the U.S. refugee entry process. You play an applicant facing the system one conversation at a time, and each answer you give changes what happens next.
Data visualization for public audiences and for research: interactive maps, dashboards, and computational analysis of large social media datasets.
Fatal mass shootings in the United States, from schools and universities to workplaces and malls. Each marker places an incident, and its colour shows the death toll in six bands, from 3 to 70.
A world map of diaspora organizations that I designed and built on my own, for a Diplomacy Lab project with the State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
My dissertation, Social Media in Public Diplomacy, analyzed how foreign embassies in the United States use social media to engage their audiences, combining computational text analysis, social network analysis and geospatial analysis of who they reach.
A short documentary built from a week in the Library of Congress microfilm collections, TV news packages produced with student journalists in Washington and Oklahoma, media lab productions in Chengdu, and an AI-generated film screened at IAMCR 2026.
Produced with students. News packages from JMC 3003 Multimedia Journalism, Fall 2021, Gaylord College, University of Oklahoma. I directed, edited and produced each piece. Student journalists did the reporting and narration, and each video credits them by name.
I ran an open media lab where any digital media student could learn shooting techniques, editing and how to put together a finished production, outside the regular courses. Students did most of the shooting and I shot some of it. I directed and did the final edit.
A Gaylord News podcast series produced in JMC 4303 Advanced Multimedia Journalism, Spring 2022, University of Oklahoma.
A series on the 2020 election and Oklahoma politics, focused on Christian nationalism and its role in the state’s politics. Each episode takes one aspect of Christian nationalism, often with expert guests alongside the Gaylord News team.
I directed, edited and produced Episodes 2 to 6. A student team did the reporting and voice work, and each episode credits them by name. Audio plays through SoundCloud.
University teaching since 2015, at undergraduate and graduate levels, for students from the United States, Bangladesh, China and beyond, many studying in their second or third language.
Senior Lecturer of Media Studies in a joint program with the University of Stirling. Taught and supervised undergraduates, designed curricula for several courses, and ran an open media lab for digital media students.
Assistant Professor of Media Studies. Graduate courses in Research Methodology and Health Communication.
Assistant Professor of Digital Media. Multimedia Journalism and Advanced Multimedia Journalism, with student work published by Gaylord News.
Graduate teaching and research assistant.
Every course ends in work students produce for real readers: a story, a campaign plan, a dataset analyzed and reported, or an argument about a media event.
Projects move from pitch and plan to rough cut and final, with written feedback and peer review at each stage. In Data Imagery, students chart a public dataset in Tableau or R and write the story around it.
Consent before recording people, protecting sources, accurate editing, and disclosure of AI use. AI tools and coding agents come in where they fit the task.
Experimental and computational research on AI-generated images and news credibility, tourism advertising and country image, and social media in public diplomacy.
I research how audiences judge AI-made media, teach students to use AI openly, and use it in my own production and data work, always with a human check before anything is published.
An AI-generated film about the collapse of visual certainty. Photographs of protests, disasters and everyday life repeat and mutate across screens, and the audience is never told which images are real.
When visual evidence becomes endlessly reproducible and subtly alterable, what exactly are we trusting when we look at a photograph?
Claude, for drafting and line editing long documents.
ChatGPT and Gemini, for a second reading and counterarguments.
Grammarly and DeepL Write, for a final check on grammar and tone.
Whisper, run through Hugging Face, for interview transcripts, checked against the audio before I quote anyone.
Descript and Otter.ai, for editing podcasts and video from the transcript.
DeepL and Google Translate, for first drafts in Bengali and Mandarin, which I revise by hand.
Nano Banana (Google Gemini), for generating the AI news photographs used in my credibility experiment.
Adobe Firefly, with generative fill in Photoshop and Premiere Pro, for extending shots and cleanup.
Adobe Podcast and DaVinci Resolve, for voice isolation and audio repair.
Runway, Higgsfield AI and ElevenLabs, for prototype video and synthetic voices in class demonstrations, always labeled as AI.
Cartesia, for the AI voice in Real Enough, my AI-generated film.
Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot and Cline, for writing and debugging R and Python analysis scripts, and for web projects, including this site.
Hugging Face and OpenRouter, for running open and custom models on specific tasks, and for comparing models side by side before choosing one.
Elicit, Consensus and Semantic Scholar, for literature search. I read every source in full before citing it.
NotebookLM and the AI assistants in NVivo and MAXQDA, for a first pass through papers and qualitative data, checked against a human codebook.
The list changes often. I keep a tool when it saves time and its output holds up when checked.
Television appearances and guest lectures for audiences beyond the academy, from youth and social media trends to public diplomacy in the digital age and theories of world order.
I am a researcher and educator who studies media, politics and all things digital, with a PhD in Mass Communication from the University of Oklahoma.
I spent five years reporting and editing in Bangladesh before an academic career, at The New Age and as founding editor of the quarterly Glocal. Since 2015 I have taught journalism, media production, social media, data visualization and research methods in the United States, Bangladesh and China.
As Co-Principal Investigator on U.S. Department of State exchange grants worth more than $2 million, I led capacity-building workshops for media professionals and entrepreneurs from six countries, including Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Kazakhstan. I am based in Dhaka.