Research Group

Muhammad A. Alam 

Professor Alam holds the Jai N. Gupta professorship at Purdue University, where his research focuses on the physics and technology of semiconductor devices. From 1995 to 2003, he worked in the Silicon ULSI group at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ. Since returning to Purdue in 2004, his group has explored the reliability physics of nanotransistors, limits of nanobiosensors, atom-to-farm modeling of solar cells, and physics/technology of Landau transistors. He is a fellow of IEEE, APS, and AAAS. His awards include the 2006 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Medal for contributions to device technology for communication systems, the 2015 SRC Technical Excellence Award for fundamental contributions to reliability physics, and the 2018 IEEE EDS Education Award.  Prof. Alam enjoys teaching: More than 350,000 students worldwide have learned some aspects of semiconductor devices from his web-enabled courses. 

IEEE Member (#40206478 ),  APS (#61031255 ), MRS (#00168295 ), Purdue (ECEN C6128)

Amandeep Singh Bhatia

Amandeep Singh Bhatia earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering Department at Thapar University, Patiala, India in 2020. He was awarded Maulana Azad National Fellowship (MANF) by the Ministry of Minority Affairs, Government of India for carrying out his Ph.D. research work. He completed his Bachelor's and Masters's majoring in Computer Science and Engineering in 2010 and 2013, respectively. He has a great interest in quantum technologies in general and quantum computation in particular. He worked on the development of quantum computational models, and their applications in biology, chemistry, and tensor network theory. He has more than five years of work experience in quantum computing and technologies. He is recognized by IBM as Qiskit Advocate, certified quantum associate developer, and quantum practitioner. Currently, he is working on near-term quantum algorithms and their applications, high-dimensional quantum computation, and artificial intelligence strategies in quantum physics.

Email: amandeepbhatia.singh@gmail.com                         LinkedIn

Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Amandeep-Bhatia

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0a1UZbgAAAAJ&hl=en

Jabir Bin Jahangir

Jabir received his B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) from East West University, Bangladesh, in 2019. Currently, he is a graduate research assistant in the Alam CEED group at Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA. Previously, he was part of the Khan Sustainable Research group at East West University as a research assistant. His research focuses on the computational modeling of photovoltaic systems and solid-state devices.

Email: jabir@purdue.edu  |   Google Scholar  |    LinkedIn  |  GitHub                    

Juan David Gonzalez Aguayo

Juan David obtained his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California. For his undergraduate senior project, he researched algae biofuels with the support of a Boeing-funded renewable energy project. Juan David is now pursuing an M.SC. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette. His research with the Alam CEED group encompasses photovoltaics system emulation/modeling, embedded systems, the internet of things (IoT), and sensors.

Email: gonza801@purdue.edu  |   Personal Website  |    LinkedIn                

Md Asaduz Zaman Mamun

Asad is currently working as a research assistant in CEED  group for his PhD in Electrical Engineering. He received  B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical and electronic engineering from Bangladesh University of engineering and technology (BUET). His research interest includes the reliability of microelectronic packaging for harsh environments, including high voltage/temperature, humidity, radiation and high-frequency applications. He has experience in the numerical modelling of complex chip package interactions (CPIs) using finite element tools, reliability modelling using Cadence  Relxpert and IC physical (layout) design using Cadence  Innovus. Prior to joining as a researcher at Purdue University, he worked as a Physical Design Engineer, at Neural Semiconductor Limited (a Bangladesh-based semiconductor company). 

Email: mmamun@purdue.edu           Personal Website                Google Scholar      LinkedIn       

Mir Md Fahimul Islam

Fahim obtained his B.Sc. (2018) and M.Sc. (2020) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. His academic excellence during undergraduate studies secured him the dean's award and NST fellowship. In Fall 2023, he joined Alam CEED group for his PhD. His research interests include the reliability of next-generation oxide transistors under extreme conditions. His prior research involved the simulation and modeling of negative capacitance transistors intended for use in biosensing and logic applications. Prior to joining Purdue University as a researcher, he worked as a lecturer at the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh.

LinkedIn               Email: islam93@purdue.edu                    Google Scholar

Chun-An Shih 

Chun-An received his B.Sc. in Nano Science and Engineering in 2019 and completed his M.Sc. at the International College of Semiconductor Technology, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, in 2022. In the fall of 2023, he joined the CEED group as a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering. Prior to this, he was an intern at Imec from 2021 to 2022, focusing on ESD HBM characterization on GaN-on-Si devices. His current research interests include the reliability and characterization of next-generation oxide transistors.

Email: shih72@purdue.edu          

Rajakumari Venkatesan 

Rajakumari completed her B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Anna University in 2017 and M.Tech in VLSI Design and Embedded Systems from Madras Institute of Technology in 2019. She joined as a PhD scholar at Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Kancheepuram in January 2021. She is a recipient of SERB Overseas Visiting Doctoral Fellowship and joined CEED group at Purdue University in August 2023 as a visiting scholar. Her current research includes Simulation, Modeling and Reliability study of Device based neurons and SNN Applications.

LinkedIn               Email: ec21d0003@iiitdm.ac.in                 Google Scholar       

Marco Fratus

Marco received the B.Sc. (2014) and M.Sc. (2017) from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in Biomedical and Electrical Engineering, respectively. He attended a Double M.Sc. degree (2015-2018) in Nanoelectronics at KTH, Stockholm, Sweden.  Before joining the CEED group (Spring 2019) as a PhD student in Electrical Engineering, he has been a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, New York, USA, investigating opto-electronic properties of graphene. His current research involves physics-based modeling and simulation of biosensors for wearable and implantable applications.

Linkedin                 Google Scholar            Email: mfratus@purdue.edu

Ajanta Saha

Ajanta Saha completed her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 2017 and 2019  respectively.  She received University Gold Madel for her academic excellence in undergraduate study. To pursue her PhD, she joined CEED group in Spring 2020. Her research interest includes biosensor and photovoltaic device modeling, data analysis and machine learning for reliable sensing in wearable and implantable applications.  

Email: saha40@purdue.edu          Google Scholar              Linkedin

Roshan Salim

Roshan completed her B.Sc. Degree in Electrical Engineering from Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan, in 2022. She then joined CEED group as a direct PhD student in Fall 2022. Her current research interests include design and performance analysis of field-deployed sensors. She is also the Head Teaching Assistant for Electrical Engineering Fundamentals 1 Lab (ECE 20007) taught at Purdue University. 

Email: salim7@purdue.edu                    Linkedin