Muhammad Ashraful Alam

Muhammad Ashraful Alam serves as the Jai N. Gupta Distinguished Professor at Purdue University's Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, where he has made transformative contributions to semiconductor device physics and reliability engineering. After completing his BSEE from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 1988, MS from Clarkson University in 1991, and Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1995, he spent eight influential years at Bell Laboratories and Agere Systems before joining Purdue in 2004. His research spans across the physics and technology of electronic, optoelectronic, and bioelectronic devices, with particular focus on performance limits of resonant tunneling diodes, semiconductor lasers, and MOSFET applications. His current work encompasses four major areas: reliability physics and self-heating of MOSFETs, end-to-end modeling of solar cells, performance limits of nano-composite thin-films for macroelectronics, and functionalized nano-bio sensor arrays. His contributions have earned him numerous accolades, including fellowship in IEEE, APS, and AAAS, the 2006 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award, and the 2015 SRC Technical Excellence Award. With over 300 published papers and more than 41,000 citations, he continues to shape the future of semiconductor technology through his innovative research and teaching at Purdue University.