August 2024 // Maziar Sayeh has completed his MS work. Congratulations!
August 2021 // Mohammad Z. Rashid has successfully completed his PhD work! Congratulations!
August 2020 // Shahrul Islam has successfully completed his MS work! Congratulations!
December 2020 // Zichang Zhang has successfully completed his PhD work! Congratulations!
December 2019 // Ye Wu has successfully defended her PhD dissertation! Congratulations!
June 2019 // Saad's paper has been accepted in Journal of Applied Physics!
April 2019 // Mayada Taher has successfully defended her PhD dissertation! Congratulations!
November 2018 // Saad Alqahtani and Khadija Khair have successfully defended their PhD dissertations! Congratulations to both of them!
October 2018 // The Group has presented 4 papers at the 2018 IEEE NMDC Conference at Portland, Oregon.
June 2018 // The Group with efforts from Mayada Taher, Rezaul Nishat, Zichang Zhang and Ye Wu has published 4 journal papers!
May 2018 // Rezaul Nishat has successfully defended his PhD dissertations! Congratulations! Rezaul has joined Intel Corporation as a full-time employee! Excellent job, Rezaul!
December 2017 // Abdussamad Muntahi has successfully defended his PhD dissertations! Congratulations!
September 2017 // Zunaidur has published the MCPT software on nanoHUB.org
Mohammad Zunaidur Rashid; Sasi Sekaran Sundaresan; Shaikh S. Ahmed (2017), “Monte Carlo Phonon Transport Simulator,” https://nanohub.org/resources/mcpt. (DOI: 10.4231/D3HX15S96)
July 2017 // The Group has presented 3 papers at the 2017 IEEE NANO Conference at Pittsburgh, USA.
June 2017 // Rezaul and Saad's paper have been accepted in JCEL.
April 2017 // Abdulmuin Abdullah has successfully defended his PhD dissertation. Congratulations!
March 2017 // Abdussamad A. Muntahi has joined KLA-Tencor. Congratulations!
February 2017 // Rezaul Nishat has got an intern position with Global Foundries. Congratulations!
January 2017 // Abdulmuin Abdullah has successfully defended his PhD proposal.
June - August 2016 // Shaikh Ahmed stayed at Air Force Research Lab, Dayton.
February 2016 // Shaikh Ahmed received the Air Force Research Lab summer fellowship.
January 2016 // Ye Wu has received the SIU Doctoral Fellowship Award! Congratulations!
January 2015 // Shaikh Ahmed has become a Campus Champion of the XSEDE HPC infrastructure.
December 2014 // Khadija has successfully defended her PhD proposal.
August 2014 // Group presented 3 papers in International Conference on Superlattices, Nanostructures, and Nanodevices, Savannah, GA.
December 2014 // Sameer has successfully defended his PhD dissertations. Congratulations, Sameer!
July 2014 // The Group has presented 3 papers in International Conference on Thermoelectrics, Nashville, TN.
July 2014 // Vamsi has successfully defended his PhD dissertations. Congratulations, Vamsi!
June 2014 // The Group has received an NSF Supplemental REU grant. Allison and Steven will be working on two projects on thermoelectricity in the coming year.
March 2014 // Vinay and Sasi have successfully defended their PhD dissertations. Congratulations!
March 2014 // The Group has presented 6 papers in APS March Meeting, Denver, CO, 2014
November 2013 // Afsana has successfully defended her MS thesis. She will be pursuing PhD at U Arkansas from spring 2014. Congratulations, Afsana!
July 10, 2013 // Vinay and Sasi have successfully presented their PhD proposal. Congratulations!
May 10, 2013 // Krishna, Vinay, and Sasi -- all three of the senior PhD students have got job offers from QualComm at the same time!! Outstanding achievement and congratulations to you!!
April 6, 2013 // Krishna Kumari Yalavarthi has defended her final PhD Dissertation! Well done, Krishna!!
Feb 2013 // Shaikh Ahmed received the 2013 Dean Juh Wah Chen Outstanding Faculty Award from SIU College of Engineering.
September 2012 // Vinay presented his work (oral presentation) at the SISPAD 2012 conference in Denver, Colorado.
June 2012 // Shaikh Ahmed received a $149,921 NSF award for research in nanoscale thermoelectric devices...Abstract on NSF webpage...
June 2012 // Group hosted seminar on high-performance computing and a tour for K-12 science teachers in 2012 SMART program.
May 2012 // Sasi presented his work (oral presentation) at 2012 IWCE conference.
Group came First in the Physical Science Division at the 2012 Research Town Hall Meeting!
[Picture // Sasi (leftmost) and Vamsi (third from left) are receiving the award from SIUC Chancellor Dr. Rita Cheng (second from left) and Provost Dr. John Nicklow (rightmost)]
Sasi Sundaresan and Krishna Yalavarthi's work received Student Travel Award for the IWCE 2012 conference; Congratulations!
Krisha Yalavarthi and Vinay Chimalgi attended APS 2012 and presented their work.
Yashavanth got a position at Global System; Congratulations, Yashavanth!
Joshua Ogden got a position at Lockheed Martin; Congratulations, Josh!
Featured in October edition of Southern’s Shining Moments!
Dylan John got a position at Samsung, TX. Congratulations, Dylan!
Sasi Sundaresan presented (oral) his work on "Multiscale Modeling of Quantum Dot LEDs" at IEEE NANO 2011 Portland OR.
July 2011// Shaikh Ahmed received a $252,329 NSF grant/award for research in solid-state lighting devices...Abstract on NSF webpage...
July 2011// Organizing a Workshop on Partnership for Improved Achievement in Science through computational Science
Supercomputers model real-world quantum dot devices 'atom-by-atom' (NanotechWeb.org)
February 2011 // Ramya Hindupur got a position in Intel, OR. Congratulations, Ramya!
February 2011 // Shaikh Ahmed gave a key note lecture at SEMO during their Engineering Week on Feb 23, 2011 titled "Nonclassical Nanoelectronics: Device Discovery and Design through Advanced Scientific Computation".
February 2011 // Shaikh Ahmed gave a presentation at ORNL on Feb 16, 2011 titled "Multimillion-Atom Modeling of Nanoscale Devices for Applications in Harsh Environments"
July 2010 // Group received SIUC ORDA Faculty Seed Grant 2010
September 2009 // Shaikh Ahmed (PI), with four other co-PIs, received NSF Computing Research Infrastructure (CRI) Grant 2009
February 2009 // Ahmed's group is the winner of Oak Ridge National Lab/ORAU First-Ever (2009) High-Performance Computing Grant Competition. Read the full story...