Biography

Southern Illinois University Carbondale - Electrical & Comp. Engineering

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Higher Education
Shaikh
Ahmed
Greater St. Louis Area
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 at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA. In August 2007, Shaikh Ahmed joined Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, USA, where he is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Research activities in Professor Ahmed’s Group focus mainly in the field of computational nanoelectronics and involves multiscale modeling of electronic structure and transport in nanoscale devices including novel transistors, semiconducting 2-D structures and nanowires, quantum dots, solid-state lighting, thermoelectrics, and devices for harsh environments. Professor Ahmed is the recipient of 2009 Oak Ridge National Lab High-Performance Computing Award. He has authored/co-authored 11 nanoelectronics software tools, access to which are freely available on NSF’s nanoHUB. As of July 13, 2017, these software tools have served over 27,500 individual users worldwide [https://nanohub.org/members/9293/usage]. He has been the Principal Investigator of the NSF funded Southern Illinois High Performance Computing Research Infrastructure (SIHPCI). He is the recipient of the 2016 Air Force Research Lab Summer Faculty Fellowship, 2013 Dean Juh Wah Chen Outstanding Faculty Award from SIU College of Engineering and 2014 ECE Department Outstanding Teacher Award. He has published over 70 papers in refereed journals and proceedings, authored six book chapters, and contributed to more than 85 technical presentations. He is a senior member of the IEEE, member of the American Physical Society, and member of the HKN Honor Society.