Shaikh Ahmed
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Shaikh Shahid Ahmed received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA, in 2005. From 2005 to 2007, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN), Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA. In August 2007, he joined Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USA, where he is currently a Full Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Dr. Ahmed has published over 80 articles in refereed journals and proceedings, authored six book chapters, and contributed to more than 90 technical presentations. He has authored/coauthored 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 December 14, 2019, these simulators have served over 20640 individual users worldwide, running more than 880,000 simulations. His research interests include computational nanoelectronics and involves multiscale modeling of electronic structure and carrier 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. He has supervised and graduated 12 PhD and 10 MS students.
Dr. Ahmed is a senior member of the IEEE, a member of the American Physical Society and the HKN Honor Society. He was a recipient of the 2009 Oak Ridge National Lab/ORAU High-Performance Computing Award, the 2016 Air Force Research Lab Summer Faculty Fellowship, the 2013 Dean Juh Wah Chen Outstanding Faculty Award from SIU College of Engineering, and the 2014 ECE Department Outstanding Teacher Award. He was the Principal Investigator of the NSF funded Southern Illinois High Performance Computing Research Infrastructure (SIHPCI).
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 July 25, 2018, these software tools have served over 30,100 individual users worldwide, running more than 800,000 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 70 papers in refereed journals and proceedings, authored six book chapters, and contributed to more than 85 technical presentations. He is a senior member of the IEEE, member of the American Physical Society, and member of the HKN Honor Society.