She is the Vice President of IEEE Women In Engineering Affinity Group, Bangladesh Section. Lamia’s current research interests is two-fold: transportation and robotics. She has been fiercely passionate about transportation issues for a long time since her home city Dhaka’s urban transportation is not exactly the greatest system in the world (just do an image search on Dhaka traffic and behold the horror!) . Her research interests in this category includes vehicle safety, intelligent transportation systems, networked vehicles, driver behaviour modelling, traffic model and congestion control.