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Mayisha Tahsin Mou got her master’s in Anthropology!
She is currently pursuing a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning and Design at the University of Maryland College Park.
Shahla Farzana successfully defends her PhD dissertation!
Thesis Title: Toward Addressing the Low Resource Task of Dementia Detection through Spontaneous Speech
Shahla has joined as a Postdoctoral Scholar at Institute for Population and Precision Health under the Biological Science division and Pritzker School of Medicine at University of Chicago
Nahid Parvez Farazi successfully defends his PhD dissertation.
Thesis Title: System Design and Operations of Package Delivery with Crowdshipping and Advanced Air Mobility
Nahid is joining United Airlines as Senior Analyst.
Limon Barua successfully defends his PhD dissertation.
Thesis Title: Maximizing Truck Platooning: Considering Trucks' Preferences, Alternative Routes, and Privacy Preservation
Limon will be joining Argonne National Laboratory as a Postdoctoral Research Associate.
Nahid Parvez Farazi receives the 2022 Best Student Paper Award from the Illinois Section of Institute of Transportation Engineers (IL-ITE).
Arephin Islam successfully defends his PhD dissertation.
Thesis Title: Polarization infrared spectroscopy of adsorbed molecules on Cu(111) and Pd/Cu bimetallic surfaces.
Arephin will be joining Brookhaven National Laboratory as a Postdoctoral Research Associate.
Nahid Parvez Farazi receives the 2022 David Boyce Graduate Scholarship Award from the Department of Civil, Materials, and Environmental Engineering at UIC.
Ragib Ahsan successfully defends his PhD dissertation.
Thesis Title: Relational Causal Discovery with Cycles.
Ragib will be joining Pinterest as a software engineer (ML).
Md Atiqul Islam successfully defends his PhD dissertation.
Thesis Title: Self- Interference Mitigation in Full-Duplex Systems: Singal Modeling, Rate Optimization, and Application
Atiqul is joining Qualcomm as Senior Wireless Systems Engineer.
Shamma Nasrin successfully defends her PhD dissertation.
Thesis Title: Efficient, Mixed Precision In-memory Deep Learning at the Edge.
Shamma will be joining Intel Corporation.
Md Atiqul Islam receives the "2022 Exceptional Research Promise Award" from the College of Engineering, UIC.
Md Atiqul Islam is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago, investigating inband Full-Duplex (FD) wireless communication techniques and applications for 5G NR next-generation wireless networks.
Erina Joyee and Minhaj Alam, two UIC alumni join University of North Carolina at Charlotte as tenure track Assistant Professors.
Erina joined the Mechanical Engineering & Engineering Science department of UNC Charlotte in Fall 2021 after completing her PhD in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at UIC.
Minhaj is joining the Electrical & Computer Engineering department of UNC Charlotte in Fall 2022. He completed his PhD in Bioengineering & Biomedical Engineering at UIC and is currently working as a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Stanford University.
Mathius Barua, a PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering receives the Chancellor's student leadership award, 2022.
The Chancellor’s Student Service Award (CSSA) honors students who have made an outstanding contribution to the University through campus and community service. Student nominees must contribute a significant amount of time, effort, and creativity to one or more campus and/or community service project(s).
Mizanur Rahman, a PhD candidate in Disability & Human Development receives the Chancellor's student leadership award and Jane Addams Distinguished Service Award.
The Chancellor’s Student Service Award (CSSA) honors students who have made an outstanding contribution to the University through campus and community service. Student nominees must contribute a significant amount of time, effort, and creativity to one or more campus and/or community service project(s).
Limon Barua, a PhD candidate in Civil & Materials Engineering receives the 2021 IL-ITE graduate student award.
The Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) is an international educational and scientific association of transportation professionals. Every year the Illinois Section of ITE (IL-ITE) presents two graduate student awards: (1) graduate scholarship award for academic performance, participation in extracurricular activities, and leadership skills (2) Graduate student paper award for an outstanding paper. The award is open to any graduate student within Illinois. In 2021, Limon won both awards.
Nahid Parvez Farazi, a PhD candidate in Civil & Materials Engineering and his team has been awarded a research grant from NASA.
Nahid and his team from UIC is one of the four teams among the US universities that are awarded this grant in 2022. This is an $80k grant with a crowdfunding campaign and Nahid will serve as the principal investigator.
Mathius Barua successfully defends his PhD dissertation.
Thesis Title: Nanoscale Characterization Techniques for Electrode Stability Investigations in Battery Nanomaterials.
Mathius is joining Intel Corporation as an Technology Development Engineer.
Md Golam Rasul successfully defends his PhD dissertation.
Thesis Title: Multi-functional polymer composite insulations reinforced with boron nitride nanosheets
Rasul is joining Intel Corporation as an R&D Engineer.
Md Ruhul Amin successfully defends his PhD dissertation.
Ruhul's PhD research focus was on nanomaterials. He is joining Intel Corporation as an R&D Engineer.
Tanvir Ahamed successfully defends his PhD dissertation.
Thesis Title: Towards urban delivery innovations: macro- and micro-level models of crowdshipping.
Tanvir has joined Wheels Up as an Operations Research Engineer.
Shuvra Debnath successfully defends his PhD dissertation.
Shuvra will join Weill Cornell Medicine as a Postdoctoral Associate.
Limon Barua, a PhD candidate in Civil & Materials Engineering receives 2021 UIC George Krambles Transportation Scholarship Award.
The annual UIC George Krambles Transportation Scholarship Awards program was established to honor the accomplishments of the UIC PhD and master's degree candidates who have demonstrated a commitment to careers in public transportation.
