New York: India-born Azmat Ahmad has been awarded the prestigious Herman Family Fellowship for Women in Entrepreneurship by a management institute in New York for her technical proficiency and strong academic credentials.

Ahmad will receive a full tuition waiver during her career at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Lally School of Management, and a teaching assistantship that carries stipends of $ 12,017 and $ 16,000 during her first and second years of study.

"Her extensive background in technology and business – both in the US and in various spots around the world – makes her the perfect recipient of the Herman Family Fellowship," Dean of Lally School Denis Fred Simon said.

Ahmad was selected for the honour based on her entrepreneurial skill, leadership quality, technical proficiency and strong academic credentials, Simon said, adding that there is an ideal fit between her career aspirations and the curriculum of Lally School of Management, which is designed to produce entrepreneurial managers.

After winning the fellowship, an overwhelmed Ahmad said," I am honoured and thrilled to have received this year's Herman Fellowship, because it really gives me a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to combine my interests in technology, entrepreneurship and social change."

Ahmad was born and raised in India. In her early teens, she moved to Northern Saudi Arabia to attend junior high school in Rahima.

PTI