Birthdate: 1 December 1952

Current Position: Professor of Physics, University of Florida

Education:

• B. Sc.(Hons) in physics, Dhaka University (1975). (First Class)
• M. Sc. in physics, Dhaka University (1976). (First Class)
• Ph.D. in physics, Princeton University 1982 (Thesis advisor: P. W. Anderson).
• Postdoctoral Fellowships:
• Research Fellow, James Frank Institute, University of Chicago (1982-84).
• Assistant Physicist, Brookhaven National Laboratory (1984-86).
• Lecturer and Associate Research Scientist, Applied Physics, Yale University (1986-87)
• Ph.D. Students and Postdocs:
• Carsten Blecken, Ph.D. 1997.
• Victor Gopar, Postdoc 1999-2001.
• Andrew Douglas, Ph.D. 2009.
• Jinmyung Choi, Ph.D. 2010.
• Tomoyuki Nakayama, Ph.D. 2011.
• Bradley Nartowt, Ph.D. 2017.
• Siddhartha Abhinav, Ph.D. 2019.
• Swapnil Yadav, Ph.D. 2021.
• Kazi Alam, Ph.D. 2022.

Employment:

• Assistant Professor, Physics Department, U. Florida, 1987-92.
• Associate Professor, Physics Department, U. Florida, 1992-2000.
• Professor, Physics Department, U. Florida, 2000 -- present.

Awards and Honors:

• S. N. Bose research fellowship, Dhaka University, 1976-77.
• Joseph Henry Prize fellowship, Princeton University, 1977-78.
• Outstanding Achievement and Performance Award, Physics Department, University of Florida, 1990.
• Anderson Scholars Honoree, University of Florida, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2004.
• Teaching Improvement Program Award, University of Florida, 1998.
• Physics Teacher of the Year, University of Florida, 2001.
• College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Teacher of the Year, University of Florida, 2005.
• Fellow, American Physical Society (Elected 2005).

International Activities:

• SERC Visiting Fellow at Imperial College, London, summer 1993.
• Visiting Scientist at Nanotechnology Institute, Forschungzentrum Karlsruhe, Germany, summer 99.
• Visiting Professor at U. Karlsruhe, Germany, summers 97, 98, 2000-2009.
• Visiting Scientist at CEA-Saclay, France, Fall 2010.
• Visiting Professor at KIT, Germany, summer 2011-2013.
• Sabbatical at Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, Sept-Nov 2017.
• Sabbatical at National University of Singapore, Dept of Mathematics, Nov-Dec 2017.

Recent Invited Talks:

• ``New class of random matrix ensembles", Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society, Los Angeles, March 1998.
• ``One-sided log-normal distribution of conductances in quantum wires", U. Augsburg, Germany, May 1999.
• ``Distribution of conductances in disordered quantum wires", Max-Planck Institute, Heidelberg, Germany, July 1999.
• ``q-polynomials, random matrices and the physics of multifractality", International conference on symbolic computation, number theory, special functions and combinatorics, University of Florida, November 1999.
• ``Emergence of anomalous distributions in condensed matter systems,",15th Florida workshop in nonlinear astronomy and physics: the onset of nonlinearity, February 2000.
• ``DMPK and novel distribution of conductances in a quantum wire'', workshop on mesoscopic physics in honor of the 60th birthday of P. Mello, UNAM, Mexico, August 2000.
• ``Conductance distribution in disordered conductors: can we go beyond quasi 1D?'', Symposium on `Strong Correlations and Disorder: Modern Aspects of Condensed Matter Theory' in honor of the 60th birthday of P. W\"olfle, Karlsruhe, Germany, April 25-26, 2002.
• ``Absence of log-normal conductance distribution in 3D Anderson insulators'', U. Augsburgh, Germany, July 2004.
• ``A new family of solvable random matrix ensembles'', U. Karlsruhe, Germany, July 2005.
• ``Distribution of transport properties in disordered mesoscopic systems'', Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia, June 2006.
• ``Surprises in conductance distribution in strongly disordered mesoscopic systems'', Rutgers University, September 2006.
• ``Anomalous Hall effect in ferromagnetic films'', University of Cologne, Germany, May 2007.
• ``Transport in thin ferromagnetic films'', University of Zaragoza, Spain, June 2008.
• ``Random systems: When the average is not good enough and the `tail' can become the `head''', Bose Colloquium 2009, S.N. Bose Research Center, Kolkata, India, July 2009.
• ``Conductance distribution in Anderson insulators'', IISER Haringhata, India, July 2009.
• ``Asymmetric metal-insulator transition in ferromagnetic films'', International Workshop on Localization Phenomena in Novel Phases of Condensed Matter, Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste, Italy, May 2010.
• ``In search of a solvable `Levy-like' random matrix ensemble'', LPTMS, U. Paris Sud, Orsay, France, Oct 2010.
• ``Novel asymmetric metal-insulator transition in disordered ferromagnetic thin films'', LPS, U. Paris Sud, Orsay, France, Nov 2010.
• ``Full conductance distribution in three dimensions: novel features at strong disorder'', SPEC CEA-Saclay, France, Nov 2010.
• ``Density of transmission levels near the Anderson transition'',WavePro International symposium in honor of C. Soukoulis, Crete, Greece, June 2011.
• ``Towards the distribution of conductances in 3D: distribution of transmission levels revisited.'',KIT, Germany, June 2012.
• ``Non-linear thermoelectric transport: A class of nano-devices for high efficiency and large power output.'',KIT, Germany, July 2013.
• ``Transport in thin disordered magnetic films.'', 9th International workshop on disordered systems, San Antonio, Texas, Aug 2014.
• ``Proposal for an industrially competitive thermoelectric device'', Colloq. at Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, Sept 2017.
• ``Universality in random matrix theory: From energy levels of nuclei to Anderson transition in solids'', Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, Oct 2017.
• ``Geometrical frustration in Ising magnets: How to quantify'', Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, Nov 2017.
• ``Random matrix ensembles and quantum transport'', Dept. of Mathematics, National University of Singapore, Dec 2017.
• ``Nonlinear thermoelectricity: Future of clean energy?'' Colloquium at CUNY, New York, Feb 2018.
• ``Some recent developments in thermoelectricity'', Invited speaker in 40 years of Mesoscopic Physics, Colloquium in memory of Jean-Louis Pichard, at SPEC, CEA Saclay, France, June, 2018.
• ``Progress in thermoelectricity: Green energy for future?'', Invited speaker in International e-conference in Physics-2021, US-Bangladesh Physics Conference, Feb 2021.
• ``Quantum phase transitions: When the average is no longer good enough'', The Salzburg Chemistry Seminar Series at CCNY, New York, Oct. 2022.

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