Shaikh S. Ahmed
Profile
| Organization | Southern Illinois University Carbondale |
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| Employment Status | University / College Faculty |
| ahmed@siu.edu | |
| Web Site | http://www.engr.siu.edu/elec/faculty/ahmed/ahmed.htm |
| Telephone | 618 453 7630 |
| Biography | Shaikh Shahid Ahmed received the B.S. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 1998, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Arizona State University, Tempe, in 2003 and 2005, respectively. From 2005 to 2007, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and at the NSF Center for Computational Nanoelectronics (NCN), Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC), Illinois, USA. His research focuses mainly in the field of computational nanoelectronics and includes the atomistic and quantum-mechanical modeling and simulations of electronic structure and transport in nanostructures including novel transistors, carbon nanotubes and semiconductor nanowires, quantum dots and nanocrystals, nanoscale thermoelectrics and piezoelectric energy-harvesting devices, solid-state lighting sources and their reliability, and nanoelectronic devices for harsh environments. The goal is not only to better understand the nanoscale physical processes, but to create community and cyber-infrastructure nanoelectronics simulation tools/software that can be used by other researchers, educators, and students. He has co-authored 10 (ten) nanoelectronics software tools that are freely available on NSF’s nanoHUB.org. As of March 10, 2010, these simulators have served 6,183 users running over 234,215 simulations around the world https://nanohub.org/members/9293) with 218 citations. Shaikh Ahmed is the recipient of 2009’s Oak Ridge National Lab’s High-Performance Computing Award. He is also the Principal Investigator of the NSF funded Southern Illinois’ High Performance Computing Research Infrastructure (SIHPCI). The goal of this project is to expand the scope and quality of research and education at SIUC in the areas of Computational Nanoscience and Engineering. Shaikh Ahmed is the author or co-author of more than 40 journal and conference articles and two book chapters. He is a member of the IEEE, the American Physical Society (APS), and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). |
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