People

People

Thank you for your interest in our group. We are currently looking for motivated Ph.D. students. The group is also looking to hire a Post Doctoral scholar with expertise in nanofabrication. Please contact the lab at ns6pf [at] virginia [dot] edu.

(Updated 03/01/2024)

Faculty

Nikhil Shukla

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Nikhil Shukla is an Assistant Professor at University of Virginia with a joint appointment in the ECE and the Materials Science and Engineering department.

Graduate Students

Abir Hasan

Abir Hasan received his B.Sc degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Islamic University of Technology, Bangladesh, in 2021. He joined the University of Virginia as a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in Fall, 2022. Currently, his research is focused on evaluating emerging IC interconnect technologies.

Nikhat Jabbar Khan

Nikhat Khan received her Bachelor of Engineering degree in 2019 and her Master of Technology (M.Tech.) degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering in 2021, from Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology (VIIT) affiliated with the Pune University. In 2021, she interned at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA, for a year, in the Instrumentation Department on the characterization of cold electronics required in the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). She joined CHRL in the fall of 2022 and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Virginia (UVA), USA. Her current research focuses on the design & characterization of emerging non-volatile memory technology. Email: yqr2yz [at ] virginia [dot] edu

Sam Stevenson

Sam Stevenson received his B.A. degree in Physics in 2019 from Carleton College, MN. He joined the Ph.D. program at the University of Virginia in Fall 2022 in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests lie in electrical characterization for 2D materials and ferroelectric devices.

Asif Shameem

Asif Shameem received his B.S degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in Richmond, VA. He joined CHRL in the fall of 2022 and is currently pursuing an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA. His research interests include device-circuit co-design and characterization. Email: as8dk [at] virginia [dot] edu

Yi Cheng

Yi Cheng received his B.E. degree in Automation and Electronic Information from Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, China, in 2020 and his M.E. degree in Automation from Central South University, Changsha, China, in 2023. He joined the Ph.D. program at the University of Virginia in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the fall of 2023, co-advised by Prof. Lin and Prof. Shukla. His research interests lie in the interdisciplinarity of formal control theory and hardware design for dynamical system-based computation.

Alumni

Antik Mallick

Antik Mallick received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Virginia in 2023. Currently, he is working as a device engineer at Micron Technology Inc. Antik Mallick worked in CHRL, focusing his research on emerging devices and device-circuit co-design for oscillator-based non-Boolean computing. His research has been published in several journals and conferences, including IEEE, IEDM, and Nature. He also received the Graduate Academic Excellence Award from UVA ISO.

Mohammad Khairul Bashar

Mohammad Khairul Bashar received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Virginia in 2024. Currently, he is working as a process integration engineer at Micron Technology Inc. Mohammad Khairul Bashar joined CHRL in fall 2018. He received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 2015. He has performed extraordinary research work in co-designing hardware and computational models for dynamical system-based computation. He has several publications in prestigious journals and conferences.