Awards and Fellowships

• TCE Graduate Research Award

Awarded by the Tickle College of Engineering (TCE) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville to one outstanding graduate student across all the engineering departments, 2025.

• 'Featured' Article in Applied Physics Reviews

One of my co-authored papers titled "Harnessing Ferro-Valleytricity in Penta-Layer Rhombohedral Graphene for Memory and Compute" was chosen as 'Featured' article in Applied Physics Reviews in 2025. 

• Graduate Student Senate Award for Excellence in Graduate Research

Awarded by: Graduate Student Senate, University of Tennessee Knoxville, 2024. 

• Journal of Applied Physics Best Paper Award

Our paper titled "A review of cryogenic neuromorphic hardware" was chosen as one of the three (among 119 eligible papers) best papers of the 2023 early career investigators.

• SIGDA Travel Grant (DAC)

Awarded by: ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation to participate in the PhD forum of DAC 2024 in San Francisco, CA, USA. 

• Graduate Student Senate Travel Award

Awarded by: Graduate Student Senate, University of Tennessee Knoxville to attend GLSVLSI 2024. 

• Gonzalez Family Award for Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant

Awarded by: Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Tennessee Knoxville, 2023.

• Graduate Advancement Training and Education (GATE) Fellowship

Awarded by: Oak Ridge National Lab and University of Tennessee Knoxville Science Alliance (2023-2024). 

• Shipley-Swann Graduate Fellowship

Awarded by: Graduate School, University of Tennessee Knoxville (2023-2024). 

• Nominee for the Jimmy and Ileen Cheek Graduate Student Medal of Excellence

Awarded by: Graduate School, University of Tennessee Knoxville, 2023. 

• 'Editor's Pick' Article in APplied Physics Letters

One of my lead-authored papers titled "A cryogenic memory array based on superconducting memristors" was chosen as 'Editor's Pick' in Applied Physics Letters in 2021. 

• Newton Young Fellowship

Awarded by: Design Automation Conference (2021). 

• Tennessee's Top 100 Graduate Fellowship

Awarded by: University of Tennessee Knoxville (2020-2024).  

• Newton Young Fellowship

Awarded by: Design Automation Conference (2020). 

• University Merit Scholarship

Awarded by: Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (2016-2017). 

• Dean's List Award

Awarded by: Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (2013-2016).

• BUET Technical Scholarship

Awarded by: Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (2013-2017).