People

Principal Investigator

Syed Kamrul Islam

Chair, Professor

201 Naka Hall

Phone: 573-882-9139

Email: islams@missouri.edu

Biography

Syed Kamrul Islam received his BSc in electrical and electronic engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and MS and PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Connecticut. He is currently a professor and the chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Missouri. Islam’s current research interests are: semiconductor devices, high temperature electronics, analog and mixed-signal circuit design, bio-microelectronics and nanotechnology.

Education

PhD from the University of Connecticut

MS from the University of Connecticut

BSc from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

Technical Focus

Analog/Mixed-signal integrated circuits

Monolithic sensors

Semiconductor devices

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Graduate Students

Ph.D. Candidate

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Md Maruf Hossain Shuvo is a doctoral student in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Missouri. His research interests include machine learning (ML), ASIC design for biomedical applications, and efficient deep learning (DL) inference on edge devices. Shuvo is the recipient of the 2023 Outstanding ECE Ph.D. Student Award from the College of Engineering, University of Missouri.

Email: msp8c@umsystem.edu

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Ph.D. Candidate

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Tanmoy Paul received his bachelor and Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Dhaka in 2015 and 2018, respectively. Currently, he is a doctoral student in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at the University of Missouri. His research interests include biomedical signal processing, machine learning, predictive analysis of electronic health records, etc. He is being co-supervised by Dr. Mosa.

Email: tanmoy.paul@mail.missouri.edu

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Ph.D. Candidate

EECS Excellence Fellow

Twisha Titirsha received the bachelor’s degree from the Military Institute of Science and Technology, Bangladesh, in 2015. She is currently working toward the PhD degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri. Her research interests include semiconductor device modeling, fabrication, and mixed-signal circuit design.

Email: ttkff@missouri.edu 

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Ph.D. Student

Recipient of Dean's Fellowship

Md Maruf Hossain received his bachelor's degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Shahjalal University of Science and Technology in 2019. In the fall of 2022, he enrolled in the EECS Ph.D. program at the University of Missouri and currently working as a graduate research fellow. His research interests include micro/nano-electronic device simulation and fabrication, wide-bandgap materials, and optoelectronics. He is also interested in the design of mixed-signal circuits.

Email: mh5md@missouri.edu

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Ph.D. Student

Recipient of Dean's Fellowship

Azmin Islam received her bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. She is currently a doctoral student in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at the University of Missouri. Her research includes developing and designing energy-efficient integrated circuits by embedding different AI/Machine learning models for biomedical applications.

Email: ai2y4@missouri.edu

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Ph.D. Student

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Showmik Singha received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh. He is currently a doctoral student in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at the University of Missouri. His research includes computational electronics, semiconductor device modeling, and nanotechnology.

Email: ssqk4@missouri.edu

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MS Student

James Alspaw received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri in December 2022. He is currently a masters student in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department. His research interests include analog and digital design, circuit test, semiconductors, and computer architecture.

Email: james.alspaw@mail.missouri.edu

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Undergraduate Students

Jazmin Renteria Gonzalez is an undergraduate student studying Dual Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Physics at the University of Missouri, Columbia with a minor in Mathematics. Currently, her research involves developing and conducting research projects in the area of RF energy harvesting for biomedical applications

Apart from being an undergraduate research assistant, Jazmin is involved in leadership for Student Outreach Volunteer and HDF Student Advisory Board.

Email: jr7rt@umsystem.edu 

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Collaborators

Abu Saleh Mohammad Mosa, PhD is the Sr. Director of Informatics Technology at the NextGen Biomedical Informatics (NextGen BMI) Center at the University of Missouri School of Medicine. He is an Assistant Research Professor of Biomedical Informatics, an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, a member of the Core Faculty of the Institute for Data Science and Informatics. Dr. Mosa obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, followed by a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University College Dublin, and a Doctoral degree in Health Informatics from the University of Missouri. He has extensive research expertise in large scale healthcare data management, warehousing, and mining. These ranges from the development of clinical research data warehouse for institutional electronic health record data to the establishment of data coordinating center for prospective electronic data collection in clinical studies.

Email: mosaa@health.missouri.edu

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Salvatore A. Pullano received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronic engineering from the University of Calabria, Rende, Italy, in 2005 and 2008, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in biomedical engineering and computer science from Magna Græcia University, Catanzaro, Italy, in 2013. Currently, he is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of Health Sciences, Magna Græcia University, and was an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA. His research interests include the design of polymer-based sensors, iono-electronic interfaces, and nanoporous materials for biomedical applications.

Email: mosaa@health.missouri.edu

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Former Visiting Students

Giuseppe Oliva received his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science and M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the “Magna Graecia” University of Catanzaro, Italy. He is currently a Ph.D. student in Life Sciences and Technologies at the laboratory of Biomedical Applications Technologies and Sensors (BATS Lab), Department of Health Sciences, Magna Græcia University of Catanzaro. His research interest is focused on the development of sensors based on nanoporous materials for the evaluation of chemical and physical parameters in biological substances.

Email: giuseppe.oliva@unicz.it

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Past Students

Ifana Mahbub


Current Position: Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Dallas
Degree: PhDGraduation Year: 2017

Samira Shamsir


Current Position: Sr. Process Engineer, Reneseas Electronics
Degree: PhDGraduation Year: 2020

Hasina Huq


Professor and Chair, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Degree: PhDGraduation Year: 2006

Md Sakib Hasan


Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi
Degree: PhDGraduation Year: 2017

Mohammad Haider


Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Alabama Birmingham
Degree: PhDGraduation Year: 2008

Ashraf Islam


Current Position: Staff Analog Circuit Design Engineer, Intel Corporation
Graduation Year: 2011

Fahmida S. Tulip


Current Position: Technical Writer, Mixed Signal, MathWorks
Graduation Year: 2014

Salwa Mostafa


Current Position: Data Scientist, Intel Corporation
Graduation Year: 2011

Rudra Shukla


Current Position: IP Logic Design Engineer, Intel Corporation
Degree: MSGraduation Year: 2021

Dilruba Parvin


Current Position: Analog Design Engineer, Texas Instruments
Degree: Ph.D.Graduation Year: 2022

Mengrui Chen


Current Position: Engineer, Halo Electronics
Degree: M.S.Graduation Year: 2022

Mo Zhang


Current Position: 
Degree: Ph.D.Graduation Year: 2007

Omiya Hassan


Current Position: Assistant Professor, Boise State University
Degree: Ph.D.Graduation Year: 2023

Tanmoy Paul


Current Position: 
Degree: Ph.D.Graduation Year: 2024

Md Hasanuzzaman


Current Position: Design Consultant, InVision Design System
Degree: Ph.D.Graduation Year: 2004

R. Vijayaraghavan


Current Position: Sr. Principal Design Engineer, Cadence Design Systems
Degree: Ph.D.Graduation Year: 2007

Sazia Afreen Eliza


Current Position: 
Degree: Ph.D.Graduation Year: 2008

Touhidur Rahman


Current Position: Staff Device Engineer, Silanna Semiconductor Inc.
Degree: Ph.D.Graduation Year: 2009

Chiahung Su


Current Position: Analog IC Design Engineer, Marvell Semiconductor
Degree: Ph.D.Graduation Year: 2010

Liang Zuo


Current Position: Sr. Staff Scientist, Broadcom Limited
Degree: Ph.D.Graduation Year: 2012

Kai Zhu


Current Position: Analog Design Engineer, Texas Instruments
Degree: Ph.D.Graduation Year: 2012

Melika Roknsharifi


Current Position: Sr. Analog IC Design Engineer, Silvus Technologies
Degree: Ph.D.Graduation Year: 2012

Terence Randall


Current Position: Principal Design Engineer, Cadence Design Systems
Degree: Ph.D.Graduation Year: 2014

Hanfeng Wang


Current Position: IC Design Engineer, zGlue
Degree: Ph.D.Graduation Year: 2017

Nazmul Amin


Current Position: Digital Design and Verification Engineer, Texas Instruments
Degree: M.S.Graduation Year: 2022

Taeho Oh


Current Position: 
Degree: Ph.D.Graduation Year: 2018

Md Maruf Hossain Shuvo


Current Position: Incoming Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at El Paso
Degree: Ph.D.Graduation Year: 2024

Song Yuan


Current Position: Sailun Jinyu Group
Degree: Ph.D.Graduation Year: 2017