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Mst Shamim Ara Shawkat

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Education

  • Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA, 2019
  • M.Sc. in Telecommunications, Waseda University, Japan, 2006
  • B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bangladesh Univ. of Eng. &Tech., 2002                               

Research Interests

  • Mixed signal VLSI circuit design
  • Optical detector design for quantum computing
  • Neuromorphic/Brain-inspired computing hardware design
  • Bio-sensor design particularly for lab-on-chip applications
  • System-on-Chip (SoC) design

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Biography

Dr. Mst Shamim Ara Shawkat received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tennessee (UTK) in 2019. She received her M.Sc. in Telecommunications from Waseda University, Japan in 2006 and B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 2002. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Florida International University (FIU). Prior to joining at FIU, she was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UTK. She also worked as a faculty member at BUET for four years. 

Her research interests include mixed-signal VLSI circuits, optical detector design for quantum computing and biomedical imaging, neuromorphic computing hardware design, and wireless power transfer for biomedical applications. She published over 40 scientific articles (including journals, conference papers, and book chapters) in prestigious platforms. She received several awards and accolades for her research, including the Chancellor Citation Award from the University of Tennessee for extraordinary professional promise in research in 2017, 2018, and 2019. She was awarded the Chancellor Fellowship from the University of Tennessee in recognition of outstanding academic credentials to support her Ph.D. studies from 2015-2019.

  

Selected Peer Reviewed Articles:

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Garrett S. Rose, Mst Shamim Ara Shawkat, Adam Z. Foshie, John J. Murray VI, and Md Musabbir Adnan, “A System Design Perspective on Neuromorphic Computer Processors”, in Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering, Vol. 1, no. 2, pp 022001, Nov. 2021.

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Shaurnav Ghosh, Marc Huo, Mst Shamim Ara Shawkat, and Serena McCalla, “Using Convolutional Encoder Networks to Determine the Optimal Magnetic Resonance Image for the Automatic Segmentation of Multiple Sclerosis”, in MDPI Applied Sciences, Vol. 11, no. 18, pp 8335, Sep. 2021.

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Md Musabbir Adnan, Sagarvarma Sayyaparaju, Mst Shamim Ara Shawkat, Catherine D. Schumen, and Garrett S. Rose, “Design of a Robust Memristive Spiking Neuromorphic System with Unsupervised Learning in Hardware,” in ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems (JETC), Vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 1 - 26, June 2021.

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Mst Shamim Ara Shawkat, Md. Sakib Hasan, and Nicole McFarlane, “Modeling and Simulating Silicon Photomultiplier Based on Perimeter-Gated Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes,” in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (TNS), Vol. 68, no. 3, pp. 279-291, Feb. 2021.  

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Mst Shamim Ara Shawkat and Nicole McFarlane, “A Digital CMOS Silicon Photomultiplier Using Perimeter-Gated Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes with Asynchronous AER readout,” in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS-I), Vol. 67, no. 12, pp. 4818 - 4828, Dec. 2020.  

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Mst Shamim Ara Shawkat, Mohammad Habib Ullah Habib, and Nicole McFarlane, “An Analog CMOS Silicon Photomultiplier Using Perimeter-Gated Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes,” in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS-I), Vol. 65, no. 11, pp. 3830 - 3841, Oct. 2018.

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Mst Shamim Ara Shawkat, Mohammad Habib Ullah Habib, Md Sakib Hasan, Mohammad Aminul Haque, and Nicole McFarlane, “Perimeter Gated Single Photon Avalanche Diodes in Sub-micron and Deep-submicron CMOS Processes,” in International Journal of High Speed Electronics and Systems, Vol. 27, No. 03 & 04, pp.1840018, May 2019.

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Md Khurram Monir Rabby, Mohammad Shah Alam and Mst Shamim Ara Shawkat, “A Priority Aware Scheduling Algorithm For Wireless Energy Harvesting of Sensor Nodes in Wireless Body Area Networks”, in PLOS ONE, Mar. 2019.