BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF SHAIKH SHAHID AHMED
Professor
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
1230 Lincoln Drive, MC 6603
Carbondale, IL 62901, USA.
Telephone: (618) 453-7630
Fax: (618) 453-7972
Email: [email protected]
URL:http://www.engr.siu.edu/staff1/ahmed/mywebp
age/ahmed.html
(A) PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION
Bangladesh Univ of Engg and Tech, Dhaka
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
Purdue University, W Lafayette, IN, USA
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Computational Nanoelectronics
B.Sc.
M.S.
Ph.D.
Postdoc
1998
2003
2005
2005–07
(B) APPOINTMENTS
2015–date Professor
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engg., Southern Illinois Univ, Carbondale
2010–15
Associate Prof. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engg., Southern Illinois Univ, Carbondale
2007–10
Assistant Prof. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engg., Southern Illinois Univ, Carbondale
(C) PUBLICATIONS/PRODUCTS (FIRST 5 ARE RELEVANT)
[1] (Software) Authored/co-authored 11 nanoelectronics software tools (nanoFET, CNTFET,
QuaMC 2D, Schred, nanoMOS, FETtoy, MOSFET, MOScap, QPC, multiscaleTEC, and nanoSSL),
access to which are freely available on NSF’s nanoHUB. As of 7/15/2015, these tools have served
over 12,400 users worldwide running over 570,000 simulations earning 278 citations. URL:
https://nanohub.org/members/9293/usage
[2] Vinay Chimalgi, Md. Nishat, and Shaikh Ahmed, “Nonlinear polarization and efficiency droop in
hexagonal InGaN/GaN disk-in-wire LEDs,” Superlatt. Microstructures, vol. 84, pp. 91–98, 2015.
[3] Afsana Sharmin, Mohammad Rashid, Vamsi Gaddipati, Abu Sadeque, and Shaikh Ahmed,
“Multiscale Design of Nanostructured Thermoelectric Coolers: Effects of Contact Resistances,”
IEEE/TMS Journal of Electronic Materials, vol. 44, no. 6, pp. 1697–1703, 2015.
[4] Muhammad Usman, Yui-Hong Matthias Tan, Hoon Ryu, Shaikh S Ahmed, Hubert J Krenner,
Timothy B Boykin and Gerhard Klimeck, “Quantitative Excited State Spectroscopy of a Single
InGaAs Quantum Dot Molecule through Multi-million Atom Electronic Structure Calculations,”
Nanotechnology, vol. 22, 315709, 2011.
[5] Shaikh Ahmed, Sharnali Islam, and Shareef Mohammed, “Electronic Structure of InN/GaN
Quantum Dots: Multimillion Atom Tight-Binding Simulations,” IEEE Trans. on Electron Devices,
vol. 57, 1, pp. 164–173, 2010.
[6] Himadri Pal, Kurtis Cantley, Shaikh Ahmed, and Mark Lundstrom, “Influence of Bandstructure
and Channel Structure on the Inversion Layer Capacitance of Silicon and GaAs MOSFETs,” IEEE
Trans. on Electron Devices, vol. 55, no. 3, pp 904–908, 2008.
[7] Gerhard Klimeck, Shaikh Ahmed, Neerav Kharche, Hansang Bae, Steve Clark, Benjamin Haley,
Sunhee Lee, Maxim Naumov, Hoon Ryu, Faisal Saied, Marta Prada, Marek Korkusinski, and
Timothy B. Boykin, “Atomistic Simulation of Realistically Sized Nanodevices Using NEMO 3-D,”
IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. 54, no. 9, pp. 2079–99, 2007.
[8] Song Li, Shaikh Ahmed, Eric Darve, and Gerhard Klimeck, “Compute the Diagonal of Sparse Matrix
Inverse using FIND Algorithm,” Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 227, pp. 9408–9427, 2008.
[9] Neophytos Neophytou, Shaikh Ahmed, Gerhard Klimeck, “Influence of vacancies on metallic
nanotube transport performance,” Applied Physics Letter, vol. 90, 182119, 2007.
[10] Shaikh Ahmed, Christian Ringhofer, and Dragica Vasileska, “Parameter-Free Effective Potential
Method for Use in Particle-Based Device Simulations,” IEEE Trans. on Nanotechnology, vol. 4, 4,
pp. 465–471, 2005.
Shaikh S. Ahmed
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(D) SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES
[Research Tools/Models/Algorithms] Research in Ahmed’s group primarily focuses in the field of
multiscale (atoms-to-transistors) computational nanoelectronics. Ahmed has worked in the
development and use of novel models for quantum transport (parameter-free effective potential), new
algorithms (such as FMM for electron dynamics, FIND for NEGF transport, and event-biasing for Monte
Carlo), and his research at the device level has addressed performance and reliability issues in
nanostructures including novel transistors, graphene structures and nanowires, quantum dots and
nanocrystals, solid-state lighting sources, nanoscale thermoelectric and piezoelectric energyharvesting devices, and devices for applications in harsh environments. Ahmed has co-developed 11
nanoelectronics simulation tools freely available on NSF’s nanoHUB.org. He has served as the Principal
Investigator of the NSF-funded Southern Illinois High Performance Computing Research Infrastructure.
[Teaching/Training] Interests: quantum phenomena in nanostructures; classical and non-classical
semiconductor devices; devices for energy applications; computational nanoelectronics; analog design
and inexact computing. Developed one new undergraduate and four new graduate courses at SIU.
[Outreach] (1) Co-principal investigator of “Partnership for Improved Achievement in Science through
Computational Science”, an ISBE funded initiative to train K-12 teachers in computer simulations and
visualization tools. (2) STEM: Trained a group of 26 STEM teachers on supercomputing in summer
2011–13. (3) REU: Supervised 6 REU students since 2012. (4) Authored 6 online tutorials/articles on
quantum transport in nanoscale devices, which are freely available on NSF’s nanoHUB.org and have
served over 3,800 users in 293 courses from 38 institutions. (5) Keynote speaker: NCN Workshop on
Simulation-based Learning, 2009; Engineering Week, Southeast Missouri State University, 2011.
[Service] (1) Advisory Board NSF’s nanoHUB.org. (2) Campus Champion, NSF’s XSEDE
Cyberinfrastructure. (3) Associate Editor, Journal of Computational Electronics; Editorial Board
Advances in Nano Research; Editor, Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, Encyclopedia of
Complexity and Systems Science, Springer. (4) NSF Panel Reviewer 2011–14; NSF ERC Site Visit Team
2012–15. (5) Project Reviewer Swiss National Supercomputing Centre. (6) Illinois Science Fair Judge
2009–13. (7) Program Committee: IEEE NANO 2013, SBMicro 2012–14, Session co-Chair in IEEE
NMDC 2010. (8) Journal Reviewer: Phys. Rev Letter, Phys. Rev B, Appl. Phys. Lett, Jour. of Appl. Physics,
IEEE Trans. on Electron Devices, IEEE Trans. on Nanotechnology, IEEE Electron Devices Letter, Solid
State Electronics, Optics Express, Jour. of Computational Electronics.
[Honors/Award] (1) DOE Oak Ridge National Lab High-Performance Computing Award 2009. (2) Dean
Juh Wah Chen Outstanding Faculty Award 2013, SIU College of Engineering. (3) ECE Best Teacher Award
2014, SIU. (4) Senior Member IEEE, Member American Physical Society, and HKN Honor Society.
(E) COLLABORATORS AND OTHER AFFILIATIONS
Collaborators and Co-Editors: Ashraf Alam (Purdue), M P Anantram (ECE, U Washington), Timothy
Boykin (UA, Huntsville), Eric Darve (Stanford), David Ferry (ASU), Thushari Jayasekera (SIU), Gerhard
Klimeck (ECE, Purdue), Irena Knezevic (U Wisconsin), Hubert J Krenner (Universität Augsburg), Mark
Lundstrom (ECE, Purdue), Ale Magana (Purdue), Frackson Mumba (C&I, SIU), Marco Saraniti (ASU),
Dragica Vasileska (ECE, ASU), Xiaoguang Zhang (ORNL), Mengxia Zhu (CS, SIU)
Postdoctoral Supervisor: Gerhard Klimeck, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and
Director of NSF Network for Computational Nanotechnology, Purdue University, W Lafayette, IN.
Ph.D. Advisor: Dragica Vasileska, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
Thesis Advisor and Postgraduate-Scholar Sponsor (total 27): Former PhD Students—Krishna
Yalavarthi, Vinay Chimalgi, Vamsi Gaddipati, Sameer Al-Sibiani, Sasi Sundaresan. Postdoctoral
Associates—None to report. Current PhD Students—Abdussamad Muntahi, Khadija Khair, Md. Rezaul
Karim Nishat, Abdul Ghandoura, Abdulmuin Abdullah, Ye Wu, Mohammad Rashid, Saad Mubarak AlKahtani, and Mayada Taher
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