Regions & Chapters Committee

Prof. Anisul Haque is currently the Chairperson, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at East West University. He has also served as the Dean, Faculty of Sciences and Engineering, East West University from December 2007 to December 2008. He received his PhD from Clarkson University, USA in 1996 and MS from Texas A & M University, USA in 1992. He also earned another MS from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Bangladesh in 1989 and BS from BUET in 1987. Prof. Haque started his academic career as a lecturer in the EEE Department, BUET. He was a professor in the same department until December 2005. He was a Visiting Researcher with the Research Center for Quantum Effect Electronics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, from 2002 to 2004. Prof. Haque has also been a Visiting Faculty Member with Clarkson University (1997, 1998 and 2001), University of Connecticut, Storrs (1999), and the Tokyo Institute of Technology (2005). Prof. Haque’s research interests are in physics, modeling, simulation, and characterization of nano-scale electronic and photonic devices. His current activities include modeling and characterization of MOSFETs on high-mobility substrates, compact modeling of MOSFETs and investigation of novel properties of strained GaInAsP low dimensional structures. He is also interested in engineering education. Prof. Haque has published around 40 papers in refereed international journals. Prof. Haque is a senior member of IEEE and is a life member of Bangladesh Physical Society. He is the founding Chair of IEEE Electron Devices Society, Bangladesh Chapter. Prof. Haque has been serving as a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Electron Devices Society since 2009. He is the recipient of the University Grants Commission Award 2006 for research in engineering and technology.

Lecture Topics

- Physics, modeling and characterization of high mobility MOS devices 

- Bifacial PV modules

- Engineering education and accreditation

Muhammad Mustafa Hussain (PhD, ECE, UT Austin, Dec 2005) is a Professor of Electrical Engineering, KAUST (since Fall 2009) and EECS, UC Berkeley (since Spring 2019). He was Program Manager in SEMATECH (2008-2009) and Process Integration Lead for 22 nm node FinFET CMOS in Texas Instruments (2006-2008). His research is focused on futuristic electronics which has received support from DARPA, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, GSK-Novartis, Saudi ARAMCO and SABIC. He has authored 350+ research papers and patents. His students are working in MIT Media Lab, Stanford, Caltech, UC Berkeley, Harvard, UCLA, Intel, TSMC, and DOW Chemicals. He is a Fellow of IEEE, American Physical Society and Institute of Physics (UK), a distinguished lecturer of IEEE Electron Devices Society, and an Editor of IEEE T-ED. His research has been extensively highlighted by international media (CNN, Fox News, Washington Post, WSJ, IEEE Spectrum, etc.) including being featured by Scientific American as one of the top 10 world changing ideas in 2014. He has received 45 international awards including Best Innovation Award, CES 2020, Edison Award 2020, Texas Exes Outstanding Young Alumni Award 2015, IEEE R5 Outstanding Individual Achievement Award 2016, DOW Sustainability Challenge Award 2012, Applied Physics Letters Best Featured Articles 2015, 2019, etc.

Lecture Topics:

- MOS Devices and Technology

Prof. Lluis F. Marsal is Distinguished Professor and full professor at the University Rovira i Virgili, Spain. Ph.D. from the University Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain, 1997. Postdoctoral researcher at the ECE, University of Waterloo, Canada (1998-1999). In 2014, he received the UniSA Distinguished Researcher Award, and the 2014 ICREA Academia Award from the Generalitat of Catalunya. Since 2019, he is the Chair of the Subcommittee for Regions/Chapters (SRC) Regions 8, IEEE- EDS. He was the Chair of Spain Chapter of the IEEE-EDS (2013-2018). He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the Distinguished Lecturer program of the EDS. He has co-authored more than 200 publications in international refereed journals, 2 books, 5 book chapters and 3 patents. His current research interests focus on organic solar cells and hybrid nanostructured materials for optoelectronic devices and low-cost technologies based on micro- and nanoporous materials for biosensing. Lecture Topics: Current progress and perspectives in polymer solar cells Nanostructured organic solar cells and polymers for flexible optoelectronic applications Photonic and optoelectronic devices based on porous materials Micro- and nanoporous materials for biosensing

Lecture Topics:

-Organic photovoltaic solar cells 
-Nanostructured polymers and porous materials 
-Photonic and optoelectronic devices 
-Optical Biosensors

Lecture Topics: Process Variability and Variability Resistant Device Design, Low Power VLSI Design, Temperature Analysis of Advanced MOS Transistor.

Biography: Soumya Pandit received Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in the year 2009 and Master degree in Radio Physics and Electronics in the year 2000. Currently he is associated with the Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics, University of Calcutta as Assistant Professor. The research interest of Dr. Pandit includes device design and optimization for System-on-Chip Applications. Dr. Pandit was the Chair of ED Calcutta Chapter for the year 2014, 2015 and is the founder chapter advisor to ED University of Calcutta Student Branch Chapter.