Muhammad M. Hussain

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Muhammad M. Hussain
Born
NationalityAmerican
Alma materBangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
University of Texas at Austin
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsEngineering
InstitutionsKAUST
Doctoral advisorBaxter Womack, Dean Neikirk

Muhammad Mustafa Hussain is an electronics engineer specializing in CMOS technology-enabled low-cost flexible, stretchable and reconfigurable electronic systems. He was a professor in King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and University of California, Berkeley, and is a currently an electrical and computer engineering professor at Purdue University. He is the principal investigator (PI) at Integrated Nanotechnology Laboratory,[1] and Integrated Disruptive Electronic Applications (IDEA) Laboratory.[2] He is also the director of the Virtual Fab: vFabLab™ (https://vFabLab.org).

Education and career[edit]

Born and brought up in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Hussain obtained his bachelor's degree in electrical and electronics engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, in 2000. He completed his master's from University of Southern California in 2002 and joined University of Texas at Austin, where he completed another M.S. and doctoral degrees (December 2005). In 2006, he joined Texas Instruments as an integration engineer to lead the 22 nm node, non-planar, MugFET technology development. In 2008, he joined SEMATECH as the program manager of Novel Emerging Technology Program, where he oversaw CMOS technology development in Austin, Texas, and in Albany, New York. His program was supported by United States Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA). He joined the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) as a founding faculty in August 2009.

Achievements[edit]

Hussain is the Fellow of IEEE, American Physical Society (APS),[3] Institute of Physics (IOP), UK and Institute of Nanotechnology, UK. He serves as an editor in notable journals such as Applied Nanoscience (Springer-Nature) and IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. He has been awarded the IEEE Electron Devices Society Distinguished Lecturer award for his teaching skills. His research on saliva based power generation, self-destructible electronics, paper skin, smart thermal patch, paper watch, multidimensional IC (MD-IC), corrugation enabled solar cells and decal electronics have garnered widespread international media attention.[4][5][6][7][8][9] He has been a leading authority in the field of flexible inorganic electronics, in particular, through the flexible silicon process. He has also pioneered a new architecture for silicon transistors called the silicon Nanotube FET.[10][11] He has served as the Editor-in-Chief for Handbook of Flexible and Stretchable Electronics.[12]

Awards and honors[edit]

  • Edison Award Gold 2020 for Bluefin, "Personal Technology" category.[13]
  • Best Innovation Award in CES 2020 for Bluefin, "Tech for a better World" category.[14]
  • Fellow of World Technology Network and finalist in Health and Medicine, World Technology Network Award, 2016.[15]
  • Outstanding Young Texas Exes Award, 2015. (The University of Texas at Austin Alumni Award)
  • Scientific American Top 10 World Changing Ideas, 2014.[16]
  • DOW Chemical Sustainability and Innovation Challenge Award 2012 for invention of Thermoelectric Windows, 2012.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Integrated Nanotechnology Laboratory".
  2. ^ "IDEA Lab".
  3. ^ "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org.
  4. ^ "Self-Destructing Gadgets Made Not So Mission Impossible". IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News.
  5. ^ "Self-destructing phones are finally a reality". Fox News. 13 February 2017.
  6. ^ "Self-destructing phones soon to be reality". Deccan Chronicle. 10 February 2017.
  7. ^ "Forget wiping your phone remotely, this tech lets you destroy its innards instead". Digital Trends. 10 February 2017.
  8. ^ "सपना नहीं हकीकत है खुद से खत्म होने वाला स्मार्टफोन". aajtak.intoday.in (in Hindi).
  9. ^ "Mission possible: Self-destructing phones are now a reality". International Business Times UK. 10 February 2017.
  10. ^ Fahad, Hossain M.; Smith, Casey E.; Rojas, Jhonathan P.; Hussain, Muhammad M. (12 October 2011). "Silicon Nanotube Field Effect Transistor with Core–Shell Gate Stacks for Enhanced High-Performance Operation and Area Scaling Benefits". Nano Letters. 11 (10): 4393–4399. doi:10.1021/nl202563s.
  11. ^ Fahad, Hossain M.; Hussain, Muhammad M. (27 June 2012). "Are Nanotube Architectures More Advantageous Than Nanowire Architectures For Field Effect Transistors?". Scientific Reports. 2. doi:10.1038/srep00475. PMC 3384075.
  12. ^ Handbook of flexible and stretchable electronics. ISBN 9781138081581.
  13. ^ "Edison Awards™ - Honoring the Best in Innovation and Innovators". edisonawards.com.
  14. ^ McLellan, Charles. "CES 2020 Innovation Awards: Winners and trends". ZDNet.
  15. ^ "THE 2016 WORLD TECHNOLOGY AWARD Winners and Finalists | The World Technology Network". www.wtn.net.
  16. ^ "Spit-Fired Fuel Cells". Scientific American. pp. 48–48. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1214-48b.