Mehdi Hasan Khan
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Mehdi Hasan Khan is a Bangladeshi physician and software developer.[1][2] He is known for inventing free and open-source Bengali keyboard Avro in 2003. In 2025, Mehdi Hasan received the Ekushey Padak for his contributions to science and technology.[3]
Early life
Khan was born in Dhaka on July 23, 1986.[2] After completing his secondary from Ideal School and College and higher secondary from Notre Dame College, Khan obtained his MBBS degree from Mymensingh Medical College in 2010.[2][4]
Avro
- For main article, see Avro Keyboard.
Khan started developing Avro for Windows in 2003 when he was a first year student of Mymensingh Medical College. It was first published on web for free download on March 26, 2003, under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.[2][5] Initially, it was developed in Visual Basic, which was later rewritten in Delphi. After discussion,[6] OmicronLab published the source code of windows version under MPL 1.1 license with the Avro Keyboard 5.0.5 public beta 1. Avro was further developed by M. M. Rifat-Un-Nabi, Tanbin Islam Siyam, Ryan Kamal, Shabab Mustafa and Nipon Haque from OmicronLab.Template:Efn
Later life
After developing Avro keyboard as a side project, he fully involved his career as a backend software developer. Dr. Hasan have also worked in mPower Social Enterprises, Eniacs, Okdoit, HungryNaki, Backpack Technologies and ShopUp.[7] During 2020 he shifted to Berlin as a Senior Backend Engineer of MoBerries. He is currently working as a Software Development Engineer at Contentful based in Berlin.
Awards
- Ekushey Padak (2025)[8]
- BASIS Award (2011)[9]
References
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Citations
- ↑ Hammadi, Saad Bin Fazle. "Exploring the base of Bangla in computers". http://archive.thedailystar.net/2004/05/12/d405121601117.htm.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Template:Citation error" (in bn). 5 November 2018. https://www.prothomalo.com/special-supplement/article/1564007/%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%9F%E0%A7%87-%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%82%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A4-%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B6.
- ↑ "The Avro story: Dream nears completion as Ekushey Padak beckons" (in en). 2025-02-06. https://www.tbsnews.net/tech/avro-story-dream-nears-completion-ekushey-padak-beckons-1062656.
- ↑ Karim, Naimul. "Mehdi Hasan Khan: Creator of the Avro Software". 21 Anniversary Supplement. The Daily Star. https://www.thedailystar.net/suppliments/2012/anniversary_2012/section3/104.htm.
- ↑ Ahmed, Kazi Fahim (2006-03-10). "Template:Citation error" (in bn). Daily Prothom Alo.
- ↑ "Template:Citation error" (in bn). http://www.sachalayatan.com/omicronlab/11251.
- ↑ "About" (in en-us). 2020-12-30. https://mehdikhan.dev/about/.
- ↑ "Govt announces Ekushey Padak recipients" (in en). The Daily Star. 6 February 2025. https://www.thedailystar.net/culture/news/govt-announces-ekushey-padak-recipients-3817901.
- ↑ "তারুণ্যেই সফলতা" (in bn). Prothom Alo. 31 October 2016. https://www.prothomalo.com/technology/%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%A3%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%87-%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%AB%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BE.