Nafees Bin Zafar country of citizenship Bangladesh
Nafees Bin Zafar (born 1978) is a visual effects and computer graphics software engineer of Bangladeshi origin based in Los Angeles, United States. Zafar currently works as Principal Engineer at animation studio DreamWorks Animation. In 2008, Zafar received an Academy Scientific and Technical Award thus becoming the first person of Bangladeshi origin to win an Academy Award. In 2015, he won a Technical Achievement Award.Early life
Nafees Bin Zafar was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh and moved to Charleston, South Carolina with his family when he was 11 years old. He studied at College of Charleston and graduated in software engineering. During that time, he studied 3-D graphics using SGI computers at Virtual Reality South.
He is the son of Zafar Bin Bashar, a Partner at Marcum & Kliegman, and Nafeesa Zafar who reside in Long Island, New York. He is a great-grandson of the famous late Bangladeshi poet Golam Mostofa and grand-nephew of the famous Bangladeshi artist and puppeteer Mustafa Monwar .
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