ScholarX - Mohamed Afham
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Mohamed Afham, is currently following his undergraduate degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering at the University of Moratuwa. He was always labelled as a mathematical guy in the school and in the university as well because of his interest in mathematics. He won the bronze medal in International Mathematics Competition for University Students in 2018 and honourable mention in International Mathematics Olympiad in 2015. His passion and motive fall under machine learning and obviously the mathematics related to machine learning.
What motivated you to join the ScholarX program?
Let me begin my ScholarX mentee journey. I didn’t know much about Sustainable Education Foundation before I took part in sef360, an open education summit. I would say that it was one of the changing moments for me in 2019. The name ScholarX was introduced there with a quiet interesting promotional video. Who won’t like the personal career advice from a fellow Sri Lankan expertise serving world-class institutes? As a kind of person with eagerness to get involved with researchers personally, what I was to do was just to wait until they call ScholarX applications. Once the selection process was finalized, I was appointed as a mentee for Dr.Savithru Jayasinghe who’s a computational scientist in Aramco Services Company.
Your Top 3 learnings from the ScholarX program?
Our major learning part of the program was to implement numerical methods in Python programming language. As a guy with much interest in mathematics and an intermediate programmer numerical methods impressed me a lot and we learnt the implementation of Euler’s method and Runge-Kutta method for simulating current flow in RLC Series circuit. My workings can be seen in this article. Moreover, I learnt about the corporate culture, facing an interview and my mentor even reviewed my CV and gave me the best feedback I’ve ever had.
What are your plans after graduation?
With my passion in machine learning, AI and mathematics, I’m looking forward to moving into research in ML algorithm optimization where I can use my knowledge as well as passion. It can be directly in the industry or maybe in academia.
It’s 2029, what are you up to?
In 2029, I would say the action is better than imagination, and I believe things are changing rapidly and I welcome all of you to meet me in 2029 (if I’m alive) and I’ll explain how I struggled in the past 10 years.
Since I’m tech enthusiastic guy I prefer to invest much more to teach our country schooling kids to learn the trending technologies up to their capacity with a better learning environment.
Any advice to prospective ScholarX participants?
Nothing much to advise. Just simply life won’t give too many chances to you. Grabbing the one best chance which coincides with your passion is what you deserve. I grabbed ScholarX in my turn and get the most out of listed best personalities of our country who came front to mentor you with free of charge.
