Shaikh S. Ahmed,
PhD
Professor
Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering
2013 Dean Juh
Wah Chen Outstanding Faculty of
Engineering
Southern
Illinois University at Carbondale
1230
Lincoln Drive
Mail
Code 6603
Carbondale,
IL 62901
Office:
Engineering E222
Telephone:
(618) 453-7630
Fax:
(618) 453-7972
Email:
ahmed@siu.edu
Shaikh Ahmed's
Linkedin Profile
Shaikh Shahid Ahmed received the B.S.
degree in electrical and electronic engineering from
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
(BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 1998, and the M.S. and
Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Arizona
State University, Tempe, in 2003 and 2005,
respectively. From 2005 to 2007, he was a
Postdoctoral Research Associate in the School of
Electrical and Computer Engineering and at the
National Science Foundation (NSF) Network for
Computational Nanotechnology (NCN), Purdue
University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA. In August
2007, Shaikh Shahid Ahmed joined Southern Illinois
University, Carbondale, Illinois, USA, where he is
currently a Full Professor in the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Research activities in Professor
Ahmed’s Group focus mainly in the field of
computational nanoelectronics and involves
multiscale modeling of electronic structure and
transport in nanoscale devices including novel
transistors, semiconducting 2-D structures and
nanowires, quantum dots and nanocrystals,
solid-state lighting sources and their reliability,
nanoscale thermoelectric and piezoelectric
energy-harvesting devices, and nanoelectronic
devices for applications in harsh environments. The
goal is three-fold: a) better understand the
underlying physical processes; b) explore and
exploit the enhanced degrees-of-freedom available at
nanoscale for device optimization; and c) develop
cyber-enabled community nanoelectronics simulation
software. Research and computational efforts in
Professor Ahmed’s group make extensive use of
advanced algorithms and state-of-the-art
high-performance cluster and CPU/GPGPU distributed
computing platforms.
Shaikh Shahid Ahmed is the recipient
of 2009 Oak Ridge National Lab/ORAU
High-Performance Computing Award and his group
has successfully scaled their scientific software on
more than 130,000 cores in then Jaguar XT5 fastest
supercomputing platform in the world. Professor
Ahmed has authored/co-authored 12 nanoelectronics
software tools (nanoFET, CNTFET, QuaMC 2D, Schred,
nanoMOS, FETtoy, MOSFET, MOScap, QPC, nanoSSL,
multiscaleTEC, and MCPT), access to which are freely
available on NSF’s nanoHUB.org. As of June 6, 2019,
these software tools have served over 19,800
individual users worldwide, running more than
860,000 simulations [https://nanohub.org/members/9293/usage].
Shaikh Shahid Ahmed has been the Principal
Investigator of the NSF funded Southern Illinois
High Performance Computing Research Infrastructure (SIHPCI).
He is the recipient of the 2016 Air Force
Research Lab Summer Faculty Fellowship, 2013 Dean
Juh Wah Chen Outstanding Faculty Award from SIU
College of Engineering and 2014 ECE Department
Outstanding Teacher Award. He has published over
75 papers in refereed journals and proceedings,
authored six book chapters, and contributed to more
than 90 technical presentations. He is a senior
member of the IEEE, member of the American
Physical Society, and member of the HKN Honor
Society.
Graduate Students
Current
Members:
Topic/Area:
Ye Wu
PhD
First-Principles Simulation of Polarization
Properties
Md. Zunaidur Rashid
PhD
Coupled Electron-Phonon Transport in Nanoscale
Devices
Did PhD from UIUC /
Worked at Intel, now Professor at The University of
Dhaka, Bangladesh / Atomistic modeling of
unintentional single charge effects in nanoscale
FETs
(Murray State) Nanoscale solid-state lighting device
simulator (nanoSSL) for nanoHUB.org
Collaborators
(Past/Present)
M P Anantram
(U
Washington), Timothy Boykin (UA Huntsville),
Donald Dorsey (AFRL), Eric Darve
(Stanford), David Ferry (ASU), Steven Goodnick
(ASU), Thushari
Jayasekera (SIU), Neerav Kharche (RPI), Gerhard
Klimeck (Purdue), Mark
Lundstrom (Purdue), Frackson Mumba (UVa),
Neophytos Neophytou (University of
Warwick), Rajib Rahman (Purdue), Dragica Vasileska
(ASU),
Chao Lu (SIU), Alejandra Magana (Purdue), Mengxia
Zhu (SIU), Mesfin Tsige (Akron), Xiaoguang Zhang
(ORNL)
Opening
GA
positions may be available in my group (for Ph.D.
students). The student is expected to have the
following basic skills: (1) knowledge of solid
state physics and quantum mechanics and a good
understanding of semiconductor devices; (2)
numerical methods, algorithms, linear
algebra/matrices, differential equations;
(3) computer programming (C/Fortran and
Matlab) and working knowledge on Linux/Unix
operating system. Interested persons may e-mail me
his/her resume along with available transcripts.
