Educational Activities Committees

Brief bio: Navakanta Bhat received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, in 1996. Then he worked at Motorola’s Advanced Products R&D Lab in Austin, TX until 1999. He is currently a Professor at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. His current research is on Nanoelectronics and Sensors. He has more than 200 publications and 20 patents. He was instrumental in creating the National Nanofabrication Centre (NNfC) at IISc, benchmarked against the best university facilities in the world. He is the recipient of IBM Faculty award and Outstanding Research Investigator award (Govt. of India). He is a Fellow of INAE. He was the Editor of IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, during 2013-2016. He is the member of the National Innovation Council in Nanoelectronics. He is the founder and promoter of a startup called “PathShodh Healthcare”, which builds point-of-care diagnostics for diabetes and its complications.

Lecturer Topics:

- Nanotransistors with 2D materials : Opportunities and Challenges

- Electrochemical Biosensors for managing Diabetes and its Complications 

- Single Chip Metal Oxide Gas Sensor Array for Environment Monitoring

- Nanostructured High Performance Gas sensors

Dr. Deji Akinwande is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). He received the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2009, where he conducted research on the synthesis, device physics, and circuit applications of carbon nanotubes and graphene. His Master’s research in Applied Physics at Case Western Reserve University pioneered the design and development of near-field microwave probe tips for nondestructive imaging and studies of materials. He is the David & Doris Lybarger Endowed Faculty Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on 2D materials, pioneering device innovations from lab towards applications. Prof. Akinwande has been honored with the 2018 Fulbright Specialist Award, 2017 Bessel-Humboldt Research Award, the U.S Presidential PECASE award, the inaugural Gordon Moore Inventor Fellow award, the inaugural IEEE Nano Geim and Novoselov Graphene Prize, the IEEE “Early Career Award” in Nanotechnology, the NSF CAREER award, several DoD Young Investigator awards, the 3M Nontenured Faculty Award, and was a past recipient of fellowships from the Kilby/TI, Ford Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and Stanford DARE Initiative. His recent results on silicene have been featured by nature news, Time magazine and was selected among the top 2015 science stories by Discover magazine. His work on flexible 2D electronics was highlighted among the "best of 2012" by the nanotechweb news portal and has been featured on MIT's technology review and other technical media outlets. He is a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Electron Device Society and an Editor for the IEEE Electron Device Letters and Nature NPJ 2D Materials and Applications. He is the Conference Chair of the 2018/2019 Device Research Conference (DRC), and the Committee Chair of Nano-devices for 2018 IEEE IEDM Conference. He co-authored a textbook on carbon nanotubes and graphene device physics by Cambridge University Press, 2011, and was recently a finalist for the Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award, the highest teaching award from the University of Texas System.

Lecture Topics:

- Flexible 2D Nanoelectronics: Device Physics, Mechanics and Circuits

- Graphene Devices and Si-CMOS Integration

- 2D Materials and Devices and Device Physics

- Non-volatile memory devices and applications

- RF Devices and Circuits

Dr. Ahmad Ehteshamul Islam is an Electronics Device Engineer at Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and is leading dielectric and integration research for high-power, high-freqeuncy electronic devices in the Sensors Directorate of AFRL located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio. Dr. Islam completed (direct) Ph.D. degree at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University in May 2010 under the supervision of Prof. Muhammad Ashraful Alam. His PhD research was on the theory and characterization of defect formation in nanoscale transistors. He obtained B.S. (EE) from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in February 2004.

Before starting his civilian career at AFRL, Dr. Islam worked as Technical Advisor of KBR, Inc. (2019-2020) with AFRL/RYDT and as Research Scientist of UES, Inc. (2012-2014, 2016-2019) and National Research Council (NRC)Postdoctoral Fellow (2014-2016) with the Flexible Electronics Group of Materials and Manufacturing Directorate (AFRL/RXAS). From 2010-2012, he worked as Postdoctoral Research Associate in Prof. John Rogers' group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From 2004-2005, he worked as lecturer of EE at BUET.

Dr. Islam is a Senior Member of IEEE. He was a member of the Star Team for a grant obtained from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research in FY16-FY18. He has received numerous fellowships during his postdoctoral, doctoral and undergraduate studies, among which the National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship (2012, 2014), Intel Foundation Ph.D. Fellowship (2009), IEEE EDS Ph.D. Fellowship (2008), Kintar-Ul-Haque Gold Medal (2005) are noteworthy. Dr. Islam was born in Sylhet, Bangladesh and currently lives in Dayton, OH.

Lecture Topics: Flexible Electronics: Silicon on Polymer Engineering Education Trends Superhydrophobic Surfaces History and Future of Semiconductor Memory