Mehzeb Rahman Chowdhury (born 31 January 1987) is a Bangladeshi author, inventor, instructor, journalist, criminologist, criminal law barrister, social sciences researcher and filmmaker.
[19] Chowdhury was a seminal speaker at the World Police Summit 2022[20] and often a participant in technology conferences and live events in the UK.
[21] Chowdhury's invention of the MABMAT, a Mars rover-like device that aids in crime scene analysis, was developed in 2016 and has been recognized for modernizing the field of forensic science.
[22][23] It has been featured in many major media outlets such as The Atlantic, the Discovery Channel, Business Insider, Huffington Post, Wired, and CNN.
[1][24][25] Despite not having any engineering experience, Chowdhury was inspired by the Mars rover, which he saw on a NASA channel, and was struck by the idea that a similar device could be used in crime scenes.
[26] He has also theorized use of video game technologies such as Xbox Kinect to scan evidential artefacts and preserve a visual record of objects found at crime scenes.
[27] Chowdhury has worked on the effects of isolation in space, and the characteristics and challenges of crime scenes on space-bound vessels and orbital crafts.
[4] In an interview with The Daily Star, he stated: "I idolised Leonardo da Vinci, who was an inventor, painter, sculptor, and an engineer.