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 about semiconductor devices through 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. 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                    

In Huh

In Huh is a Ph.D. student in the Alam CEED group at Purdue University, USA, and a staff research engineer at Samsung Electronics, South Korea. He earned his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering from Sogang University, South Korea. His research interests focus on the theoretical foundations of physics-inspired machine learning methods, particularly through the lens of symmetry and geometry, and their practical applications in nanoelectronics engineering.

Email:ihuh@purdue.edu  |   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.

LinkedIn   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       

Yi-Chieh Chen

Yi-Chieh gained her B.S. degree from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan and completed her M.S. degree at Graduate Institution of Electronics Engineering from National Taiwan University, Taiwan.  Her M.S. study is mainly about the experimental characteristics of GeSn/Oxide interfaces and first principle calculation. Before joining CEED group at Purdue in Fall 2024 as a PhD student, she worked as a research assistant at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan from 2023 to 2024.

Email: chen5239@purdue.edu

Marco Fratus (Alumnus)

After receiving his B.Sc. (2014) and M.Sc. (2017) degrees from Politecnico di Milano, Italy (in Biomedical and Electrical Engineering), and a Double M.Sc. degree (2015–2018) from KTH, Sweden (in Nanoelectronics), he joined the CEED group for his Ph.D. (2019–2024) and Postdoc (2024–2025). His research focuses on developing physics-based system and device models for wearable microneedle platforms for sensing and therapeutic applications. He is currently working as an Algorithm Engineer at Abbott. Feel free to reach out to him with any questions.

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