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
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
Ph.D. Student
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Md Yekra Rahman received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bangladeshl University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh. He is currently a doctoral student in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at the University of Missouri. His research interest includes analog circuit design.
Email: mrvpx@missouri.edu
Ph.D. Student
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Ahsanul Mohaimeen Audri received his BS in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh. He is currently a doctoral student in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at the University of Missouri. His research interests include micro/nanoelectronic device modeling and fabrication, wide bandgap semiconductor materials and devices, and optoelectronic devices .
Email: amk3c@missouri.edu
Ph.D. Student
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Kashmira Dey received her M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Northeastern University in 2023. She subsequently worked as a Software Engineer and AI Researcher, developing multimodal deep learning models, LLM‑based clinical decision tools, and cloud‑connected embedded systems. Her research interests include healthcare AI, NLP, predictive modeling, and embedded machine learning. In Fall 2026, she enrolled in the Ph.D. program in the EECS department at the University of Missouri.
Email: kdxp4@missouri.edu
Thao Nguyen is an undergraduate student studying Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Currently, her research focuses on developing low-power silicon nanowire FET-based biosensors for rapid point-of-care detection. She also worked on microcontroller-enabled sensor applications.
Email: tpncvg@missouri.edu
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.
Taeho Oh