Muhammad Ullah

Dr. Muhammad S. Ullah is an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Florida Polytechnic University. His research focuses are the modeling of RLC interconnects in high density integrated circuits and energy efficient electronic devices (TFET) for logic applications based on emerging 2-D nanomaterials (MoS2, Graphene, and CNT). He also worked on a neural network-based classification of deceptive and stress speech using non-linear spectral and cepstral features during his master’s study. In his Ph.D. dissertation, he investigated the high-speed very-large-scale integration (VLSI)interconnect and energy efficient electronic devices for emerging post-MOSFET and beyond silicon technologies.

Before joining Florida Poly, Ullah worked as a full-time lecturer from 2008 to 2011 in the Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology (CUET), Bangladesh. From 2011 to 2013, he worked as a teaching assistant at Purdue University Northwest. He began working as a full instructor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City while he pursued his doctoral degree. He has taught undergraduate courses in electrical circuits, digital logic designs, signals and systems, and graduate courses in advanced digital signal processing, introduction to VLSI designs, advanced VLSI designs, and emerging nanotechnology, including hands-on experience in MATLAB, Cadence Virtuoso, and HSPICE.

Ullah has served as a regular reviewer of many journals and conferences, including IEEE Transactions on very large scale integration systems, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Microelectronics Journal-Elsevier and Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing-Springer, and ASP Journal of Low Power Electronics.

Awards and Honors

• Teen Driver Education Task Force Choice Award, Office of the Tax Collector, 5^th Annual BIO Expo, Florida Polytechnic University. (December 2017)
• Certificate of Reviewing, Microelectronic Journal-Elsevier. (July 2017)
• Florida Polytechnic University’s President Choice Award, 4^th BIO EXPO Award Ceremony, Florida Polytechnic University. (April 2017)
• Rotaract Club of Florida Poly Mentor Award, 4^th BIO EXPO Award Ceremony, Florida Polytechnic University. (April 2017)
• Ardent & Bold Mentor Award, 4^th BIO EXPO Award Ceremony, Florida Polytechnic University. (April 2017)
• Certificate of Award, Skim Shield, LLC, 4^th BIO EXPO Award Ceremony, Florida Polytechnic University. (April 2017)
• Best Poster Presentation Award, University of Missouri-Kansas City Community Scholar Symposium (April 2016)
• Research Grant Award, The School of Graduate Studies, University of Missouri-Kansas (April 2016)
• Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing, Microelectronic Journal-Elsevier. (October 2016)
• Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics Fellowship (IAMP) Award, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Missouri-Kansas City (January 2016)
• Outstanding Ph.D. Student Award, School of Computing and Engineering, University of Missouri-Kansas City (May 2015)

Education

• Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Missouri-Kansas City, MO 2016
• M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University Northwest, IN 2013
• B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh, 2008

Expertise

• Ultra low power electronic devices
• High-speed VLSI interconnects
• Emerging applications of nanotechnologies
• Digital signal processing
• Artificial intelligence

Professional Activities

• Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Member, Sigma Xi-The Scientific Research Society
• Member, The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
• Faculty advisor, Florida Polytechnic University ACM Students Chapter
• Local Organizing Committee Member, The Next Generation Green Chemistry/Engineering and Technologies Graduate Program Conference, Lakeland, Florida, July 18-19, 2018
• Faculty Co-Advisor, Florida Polytechnic University ACM Student Chapter (2017-present)
• Member, Academic Standard Committee, Florida Polytechnic University (2016-present)
• Judge, Middle School Physical, Florida Junior Academy of Science, Florida Polytechnic University, March 11, 2017

Select Publications

• William Brickner* and Muhammad S. Ullah, “Use of a Hysteresis Loop Activation Function to Enable an Analog Perceptron to Gain Memory,” Science Journal of Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 68-73, July 2018.
• Muhammad S. Ullah, Abdullah G. Alharbi and Masud H. Chowdhury, “BPSK Modulation Based Exact BER Computation for Network Intra-Chip RF Interconnect,” The 29^th IEEE International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM), Beirut, Lebanon, pp. 91-94, 10- 13 December 2017.
• Muhammad S. Ullah, Abdullah G. Alharbi and Masud H. Chowdhury, “Capacity of Gaussian MIMO Channel for Network Intra-Chip RF Interconnect,” The 9^th IEEE-GCC Conference and Exhibition (GCCCE), Manama, Bahrain, pp. 486-490, 8-11 May 2017.
• Muhammad S. Ullah and Masud H. Chowdhury, “Analytical Models of High Speed RLC Interconnect Delay for Complex and Real Poles,” IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 1831-1841, February 2017.
• Muhammad S. Ullah and Masud H. Chowdhury, “Multilayer Molybdenum disulphide based Tunnel Transistor” IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2015), Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 1929-1932, 24-27 May 2015.
• Muhammad S. Ullah and Masud H. Chowdhury, “Neural network based classification of stressed speech using nonlinear spectral and cepstral features,” IEEE 12^th New Circuits and Systems Conference (NEWCAS 2014), Trois-Rivieres, QC, Canada, pp. 33-35, 22-25 June 2014.
• Muhammad S. Ullah and K. Gopalan, “Deception detection in speech using Bark band and perceptually significant energy features,” IEEE 56th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS 2013), Columbus, OH, USA, pp.1212-1215, 3-7 August, 2013.
• Muhammad S. Ullah, “A review of higher order statistics and spectra in communication systems,” The Global Journal of Science Frontier Research, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 31-50, May 2013.
• Muhammad S. Ullah and M. Jasimuddin, “Performance analysis of wireless MIMO system by using Alamouti’s scheme and Maximum ratio combining technique,” International Journal of Advanced Engineering, Sciences and Technologies, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 19-24, March 2011.
• K. Das, Muhammad S. Ullah, H. M. G. Sarower* and M. M. Hassan*, “Development of a cell phone based remote control system: an effective switching system for controlling home and office appliances,” International Journal of Electrical and Computer Science, vol. 9, no. 10, pp. 37-43, December 2009.