Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Faculty
Faculty of Sciences and EngineeringAddress
A/2, Jahurul Islam Avenue
Jahurul Islam City, Aftabnagar
Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh
Postdoctoral in Electrical Engineering, University of Tokyo, Japan
PhD in Electrical Engineering, University of California, Riverside, USA
MSc in Electrical Engineering, BUET, Bangladesh
BSc in Electrical Engineering, BUET, Bangladesh
Professor Khairul Alam received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees both in electrical engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). He obtained a Ph.D. degree also in electrical engineering from the University of Californian, Riverside, USA. He worked with Intel at New York, USA as a summer intern. He spent two years at the University of Tokyo, Japan as a post-doctoral researcher under the JSPS fellowship of Japan government.
He has been with the EEE department of East West University since January 2007. Along with teaching, he has a significant contribution in research and education. He published a book chapter, 38 journal papers, and 26 conference papers. He received the University Grants Commission award in 2009 for his research on strain effects on the performance of a graphene nanoribbon transistor.
He has been serving the editor position of IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices (T-ED) since January 2019. He served the director position of institutional quality assurance cell of East West University for three years. During his period, seven departments of East West University completed the self-assessment report, external peer review, and post improvement plan. He served the external peer review team for the quality assurance of a few universities. He also served the accreditation team of BAETE for accreditation of engineering programs in Bangladesh. Currently, he is the chair of sectoral committee of BAETE for electrical engineering related programs.
Positions Served / Have Been Serving
June 1, 2024 - Present: Chairperson, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, East West University.
November, 2019 - July, 2025: Sectoral Committee for Electrical and Electronic Engineering or related programs of BAETE.
January 01, 2019 - Present: Editor, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices (T-ED).
January 01, 2016 - December 31, 2018: Director, Institutional Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC), East West University.
August 26, 2012 – August 25, 2014: Postdoctoral research fellow, The University of Tokyo, Japan.
June 26, 2006 – September 15, 2006: Intern co-op, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center at Yorktown Heights, New York, USA.
September 2003 – December 2006: Research Assistant, LAboratory for Terascale and Terahertz Electronics (LATTE), University of California, Riverside, USA.
Professional Services on Teaching Learning
I served the chair position of the BAETE accreditation visiting team for the EEE programs of North South University. October 2019.
I served the chair position of the BAETE accreditation visiting team for the EEE programs of Premier University Chittagong. July 2019.
I served as a local QA expert in the external self-assessment peer review team for the ETE program of University of Liberal Arts – Bangladesh (ULAB). Date May 12-14, 2018.
I served the chair position of the BAETE accreditation visiting team for the EEE programs of Stamford University Bangladesh (SUB). Date December 9, 10, and 11, 2017.
I served the chair position of the BAETE accreditation renewal visiting team for the EEE program of Daffodil International University. Date July 6, 2017.
I served the chair position of the BAETE accreditation visiting team for the EEE and ETE programs of Independent University, Bangladesh. Date May 8, 9, and 11, 2017.
I served as a subject expert in the external self-assessment peer review team for the EEE program of United Internal University, Bangladesh. Date February 28, March 01, and 02, 2017.
Training on Teaching Learning
Attended the workshop “Orientation and Discussion Session for Drafting, Finalizing and Assessing Evaluation Team Onsite Visit Reports,” on August 5, 2019, organized by BAETE.
Attended the international symposium “Quality assurance in Engineering Education through Accreditation,” on March 13-14, 2019, organized by BAETE.
Attended a day-long workshop on “Preparation for Outcomes-based Accreditation for Faculty & Program Directors,” on December 12, 2017. This was organized by BAETE, IEB, and the resource persons were Prof. Dato' Ir. Dr. Wan Hamidon Wan Badaruzzaman and Prof Ir Dr. Hjh Siti Hawa Hamzah, Washington Accord Mentor to BAETE.
Attended a two-days’ workshop on “Preparation for Outcomes-based Accreditation for Faculty & Program Directors,” on October 17 and 19, 2017. This was organized by BAETE, IEB, and the resource person was Professor Kai Sang LOCK, Washington Accord Mentor to BAETE.
Attended a two-days’ workshop on “Preparation for Outcomes-based Accreditation for Faculty & Program Directors,” from January 4 to 5, 2017. This was organized by BAETE, IEB, and the resource person was Professor Kai Sang LOCK, Washington Accord Mentor to BAETE.
Attended a three-days’ workshop on “PEO-PO statements and mapping, PO-CO-LO statements and mapping,” December 9 to 11, 2016. This was organized by BAETE, IEB, and the resource persons were Prof. Dato' Ir. Dr. Wan Hamidon Wan Badaruzzaman and Prof Ir Dr. Hjh Siti Hawa Hamzah, Washington Accord Mentor to BAETE.
Attended a day-long workshop on “International Peer Reviewing Training Workshop,” on October 25, 2016. This was organized by QAU, HEQEP, UGC, and the resource person was Dr. Rozilini Farnandaz –Chung, QA Expert from Edu Leads Consulting, Malaysia.
Conducted a workshop on “Bloom’s Taxonomy and Course Lesson Plan” at East West University on August 6, 2016. The faculty members of East West University attended the workshop.
Conducted a workshop as a resource person on “SA report format, Learning outcomes, and Lesson plan” at East West University on April 17, 2016. Participants were QAC members, SAC members, and all heads.
Received training on Quality Assurance in Higher Education from Edu Leads, Malaysia, From 28 March to 8 April 2016.
Received training on Teaching-Learning, Curriculum and Quality Assurance from Graduate Training Institute (GTI) Mymensingh, Bangladesh, From 13 to 17 March 2016.
- Electron transport in semiconductor nanostructures
- Electronics of 2D materials
- Strain engineering for improved performance of nano transistors
- Photovoltaics and solar cell
- Khairul Alam, “Performance analysis of an n-channel HfS2 monolayer transistors.,” IEEE Access, vol. 14, pp. 19786-19793, February 2026.
- Khairul Alam, “Inter-valley phonon scattering limited performance of n-channel WS2 monolayer transistors.,” Semiconductor science and technology, vol. 40, no 1, p. 015016, January 2025.
- Khairul Alam, “Role of Phonon Scattering on the Transport and Performance of an N-Channel Monolayer Black Phosphorus Transistor.,” Journal of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, vol. 3, pp. 21–34, January 2024.
- Khairul Alam, “DC and RF performance of an n-channel monolayer black phosphorus nanoribbon transistor,” Journal of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, vol. 2, pp. 86–98, June 2023.
- Khairul Alam, “Transport and performance study of double-walled black phosphorus nanotube transistors,” Semiconductor Science and Technology, vol. 37(8), p. 085003, June 2022.
- Khairul Alam, “Anisotropic transport in tellurene field effect transistors,” IET Micro & Nano Letters, vol. 15(13), pp. 959-963, November 2020.
- Khairul Alam, “Physical insight and performance metrics of monolayer MX2 heterojunction TFETs,” IET Micro & Nano Letters, vol. 15(2), pp. 81-85, February 2020.
- Khairul Alam, “Orientation engineering for improved performance of a Ge-Si heterojunction nanowire TFET,” IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 64(12), pp. 4850-4855, December 2017.
- Somaia S. Sylvia, Khairul Alam, and Roger Lake, “Uniform Benchmarking of Low-Voltage van der Waals FETs,” IEEE Journal on Exploratory Solid-State Computational Devices and Circuits, vol. 2, pp. 28-35, October 2016.
- Kalyan Mondol, Md. Manzurul Hasan, Yeasir Arafath, and Khairul Alam, “Quantization effects on the inversion mode of a double gate MOS,” Results in Physics, vol. 6, pp. 339-341, June 2016.
- Khairul Alam, Shinichi Takagi, and Mitsuru Takenaka, “A Ge ultrathin-body n-channel tunnel FET: Effects of orientation,” IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 61(11), pp. 3594-3600, November 2014.
- Somaia S. Sylvia, K. M. Masum Habib, M. Abul Khayer, Khairul Alam, Mahesh Neupane, and Roger Lake, “Effects of random, discrete source dopant distribution on nanowire tunnel FETs,” IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 61(6), pp. 2208-2214, June 2014.
- Khairul Alam, Shinichi Takagi, and Mitsuru Takenaka, “Strain-modulated L-valley ballistic-transport in (111) GaAs ultrathin-body nMOSFETs,” IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 61(5), pp. 1335-1340, May 2014.
- Khairul Alam, Shinichi Takagi, and Mitsuru Takenaka, “Analysis and comparison of L valley transport in GaAs, GaSb, and Ge ultrathin-body ballistic nMOSFETs,” IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 60(12), pp. 4213-4218, Dec. 2013.
- Khairul Alam and Roger Lake, “Monolayer MoS2 transistors beyond the technology roadmap,” IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 59(12), pp. 3250-3254, Dec. 2012.
- Somaia Sylvia, M. Abul Khayer, Khairul Alam, and Roger Lake, “Doping, tunnel barrier, and cold carriers in InAs and InSb nanowire tunnel transistors,” IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 59(11), pp. 2996-3001, Nov. 2012.
- Somaia Sylvia, Hong-Hyun Park, M. Abul Khayer, Khairul Alam, Gerhard Klimeck, and Roger Lake, “Material Selection for Minimizing Direct Tunneling in Nanowire Transistors,” IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 59(8), pp. 2064-2069, August 2012.
- Khairul Alam, “Uniaxial stress modulated electronic properties of a free standing InAs nanowire,” IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 59(3), pp. 661-665, Mar 2012.
- Khairul Alam and Md. Abu Abdullah, “Effects of gate dielectric constant on the performance of a gate all around InAs nanowire transistor,” IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, vol. 11(1), pp. 82-87, Jan 2012.
- Khairul Alam and Redwan N Sajjad, “Electronic properties and orientation-dependent performance of InAs nanowire transistors,” IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 57(11), pp. 2880-2885, Nov 2010.
- Md. Abdul Wahab and Khairul Alam, “Performance comparison of zero-Schottky-barrier and doped contacts carbon nanotube transistors with strain applied,” Nano-Micro Letters, vol. 2(2), pp. 126-133, Jul 2010.
- Sishir Bhowmick and Khairul Alam, “Effects of source-drain underlaps on the performance of silicon nanowire on insulator transistors,” Nano-Micro Letters, vol. 2(2), pp. 83-88, Jun 2010.
- Md. Abdul Wahab and Khairul Alam, “Performance of zero-Schottky-barrier and doped contact single and double walled carbon nanotube transistors,” Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 49(2), pp. 025101(1-6), Feb 2010.
- Khairul Alam, “Transport and performance of a gate all around InAs nanowire transistor,” Semiconductor Science and Technology, vol. 24(8), pp. 085003(1-6), Aug 2009.
- Khairul Alam, “Uniaxial strain effects on the performance of a ballistic top gate graphene nanoribbon on insulator transistor," IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, vol. 8(4), pp. 528-534, Jul 2009.
- Redwan Sajjad, Khairul Alam, and Quazi Khosru, “Parametrization of silicon nanowire effective mass model from sp3d5s* orbital basis calculations,” Semiconductor Science and Technology, vol. 24(4), pp. 045023(1-8), Apr 2009.
- Redwan Sajjad and Khairul Alam, “Electronic properties of a strained <100> silicon nanowire," Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 105(4), pp. 044307(1-6), Feb 2009.
- Khairul Alam, “Transport and performance of zero-Schottky barrier and doped contacts graphene nanoribbon transistors," Semiconductor Science and Technology, vol. 24(1), pp. 015007(1-8), Jan 2009.
- Sishir Bhowmick and Khairul Alam, “Dielectric scaling of a top gate silicon nanowire on insulator transistor," Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 104(12), p. 124308, Dec 2008.
- Khairul Alam, “Gate dielectric scaling of top gate carbon nanoribbon on insulator transistors," Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 104(7), p. 074313, Oct 2008.
- Deep Shah, Nicolas Bruque, Khairul Alam, Roger Lake and Rajeev Pandey, “Electronic properties of carbon nanotubes calculated from density functional theory and the empirical p-bond model," Journal of Computational Electronics, vol. 6(4), p. 395, Dec 2007.
- Khairul Alam and RogerLake, “Role of doping in carbon nanotube transistors with source/drain underlaps," IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, vol. 6(6), pp. 652-658, Nov 2007.
- Khairul Alam and Roger Lake, “Performance metrics of a 5 nm, planar, top gate, carbon nanotube on insulator transistor," IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, vol. 6(2), pp. 186-190, Mar 2007.
- Khairul Alam and RogerLake, “Dielectric scaling of a zero-Schottky-barrier, 5 nm gate, carbon nanotube transistor with source/drain underlaps," Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 100, p. 024317, Jul 2006.
- Nicolas Bruque, Khairul Alam, Rajeev Pandey, Roger Lake, James Lewis, Xu Wang, Fei Liu, Cengiz Ozkan, Mihrimah Ozkan, and Kang Wang, “Self- assembled carbon nanotubes for electronic circuit and device applications," Journal of Nano and Optoelectronics, vol. 1(1), p. 74, Apr 2006.
- Rajeev Pandey, Nocolas Bruque, Khairul Alam, and Roger Lake, “Carbon nanotube - molecular resonant tunneling diode," Physica Status Solidi(a), vol. 203(2), p. R5, Feb 2006.
- Khairul Alam and Roger Lake, “Leakage and performance of zero-Schottky- barrier carbon nanotube transistors," Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 98, p. 064307, Sep 2005.
- Khairul Alam and Roger Lake, “Performance of 2 nm gate length carbon nanotube field-effect transistors with source/drain underlaps," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 87, p. 073104, Aug 2005.
- Yun Zheng, Cristian Rivas, Roger Lake, Khairul Alam, Timothy Boykin, and Gerhard Klimeck, “Electronic properties of silicon nanowires," IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 52(6), pp. 1097-1103, Jun 2005.
- Anisul Haque and Khairul Alam, “Accurate modeling of direct tunneling hole current in p-metal-oxide-semiconductor devices," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 81, p. 667, (2002).
- Khairul Alam, Saif Zaman, Murshed Chowdhury, Rezwan Khan, and Anisul Haque, “Effects of inelastic scattering on direct tunneling gate leakage current in deep submicron metal-oxide-semiconductor transistor," Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 92, p 937, (2002).
- Md. Manzurul Hasan1 and Khairul Alam, “Comparative Study of Scaling Effects of a Double Gate Silicon and In0.47Ga0.53As MOSFET,” 10th International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, December 20-22, 2018, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
- M. A. Faruque, Rezwan Ahmed, M. H. Rahat, and Khairul Alam, “Comparative Performance Analysis Between CIGS Single-Junction and CIGS Tandem Multi-Junction Solar Cell,” 10th International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, December 20-22, 2018, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
- Md. Kamrul Hasan, Lutfun Nahar Lata, and Khairul Alam, “Effect of band gap on the performance of AlGaAs/GaAs dual junction solar cell,” 4th International Conference on Advances in Electrical Engineering, September 28-30, 2017, Independent University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
- Mostofa Amir Rifat, Mohammad Imtiaz Morshed Khan, and Khairul Alam, “Simulation Study on the Effects of Changing Band Gap on Solar Cell Parameters,” 9th International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, December 20-22, 2016, Dhaka, Bangladesh, pp. 86-89.
- Khairul Alam, Shinichi Takagi, and Mitsuru Takenaka, “Thickness dependent performance of (111) GaAs UTB nMOSFETs,”16th International Workshop on Computational Electronics, June 4-7, 2013, Nara, Japan, pp. 136-137.
- Somaia Sarwat Sylvia, M. Abul Khayer, Khairul Alam and Roger K. Lake, “On the effect of random source doping distribution in nanowire Tunnel FETs," TECHCON, September 9-10, 2013, Austin, Texas, USA.
- Somaia Sarwat Sylvia, M. Abul Khayer, Khairul Alam, Hong-Hyun Park, Gerhard Klimeck, and Roger K. Lake, “Discrete Random Distribution of Source Dopants in Nanowire Tunnel Transistors (TFETs)," APS March Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, March 18-22, 2013.
- Somaia Sarwat Sylvia, Mahesh Neupane, M. Abul Khayer, Khairul Alam, and Roger K. Lake, “Material Selection for Nanowire FETs and TFETs," 8th Annual FENA Review, Los Angeles, CA, Feb 7-8, 2012.
- Somaia S Sylvia, M Abul Khayer, Khairul Alam, and Roger K Lake, “Design issue analysis for InAs nanowire tunnel FETs,” Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 8102, p. 81020, Sep 2011.
- M. Abul Khayer, Somaia Sarwat Sylvia, Khairul Alam, and Roger K. Lake, “Effects of Heavily Doped Source on the Subthreshold Characteristics of Nanowire Tunneling Transistors," 69th Device Research Conference, June 20-22, 2011, Santa Barbara, CA, pp. 51-52.
- Somaia Sarwat Sylvia, M. Abul Khayer, Khairul Alam, and Roger K. Lake, “Performance Analysis of Nanowire III-V and CNT Tunnel FETs," 7th Annual FENA Review, Boston, MA, May 9-11, 2011.
- Shamim Ahmed and Khairul Alam, “Effects of phonon scattering on the performance of silicon nanowire transistors," 6th International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, December 18-20, 2010, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
- Sishir Bhowmick, Khairul Alam, and Quazi Khosru, “The effects of doping, gate length, and gate dielectric on inverse subthreshold slope and on/off current ratio of a top gate silicon nanowire transistor," 5th International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, December 20-22, 2008, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
- Redwan Sajjad, Khairul Alam, and Quazi Khosru, “Effects of uniaxial strain on the bandstructures of silicon nanowires," 5th International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, December 20-22, 2008, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
- Abdul Wahab and Khairul Alam, “Performance comparison of zero-Schottky- barrier single and double walled carbon nanotube transistors," 5th International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, December 20-22, 2008, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
- Nicolas Bruque, Rajeev Pandey, Khairul Alam, and Roger Lake, “Modeling and Design of Beyond the Roadmap Materials and Devices: Nanowires, Nanotubes, and Molecules,” International Workshop on Electron Devices and Semiconductor Technology, pp. 25-30, Tsinghua University, June 3-4, 2007.
- Nicolas Bruque, Rajeev Pandey, Khairul Alam, and Roger Lake, “Electron transport through molecular-carbon nanotube interfaces,” APS March Meeting, vol. 52, March 5–9, 2007, Denver, Colorado.
- Khairul Alam, Nicolas Bruque, and Roger Lake, “Density functional theory mode space approach applied to silicon nanowire FETs,”International Workshop on Computational Electronics, pp. 209-210, October 8-10, Amherst, USA, 2007.
- Rajeev Pandey, Nicolas Bruque, Khairul Alam, and Roger Lake, “Effect of CNT-amide geometry on CNT-molecular conductance," 232nd ACS National Meeting, September 10-14, 2006, San Francisco, California, USA.
- Khairul Alam and RogerLake, “Near ideal operation of nanometer gate length carbon nanotube FETs," APS March Meeting, March 21-25, 2005, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Khairul Alam and RogerLake, “The effect of source/drain extension asymmetry on the leakage current of ohmicly-contacted carbon nanotube FETs," NSTI Nanotechnology Conference, May 8-12, 2005, Anaheim, California, USA.
- Khairul Alam and RogerLake, “Optimal design and Coulomb blockade suppressed leakage of carbon nanotube transistors," 63rd Annual Device Research Conference, June 20-23, 2005, Santa Barbara, California, USA.
- Khairul Alam, Nicolas Bruque, Rajeev Pandey, and Roger Lake, “Performance, design, and modeling of bio-assembled carbon nanotube FETs," First International Nanotechnology Conference on Communication and Cooperation, June 2005, San Francisco, California, USA.
- Khairul Alam, RogerLake, and Nicolas Bruque, “High performance carbon nanotube transistors with underlap gates and Coulomb blockade suppressed leakage," Techcon Conference, October 24-26, 2005, Portland, Oregon, USA.
- Yun Zheng, RogerLake, Khairul Alam, Cristian Rivas, Timothy Boykin, and Gerhard Klimeck, “Electronic properties of silicon nanowires," 10th International Workshop on Computational Electronics (IEEE Cat. No.04EX915), 2004, pp. 82-83, Pisactaway, NJ, USA.
- Khairul Alam and Anisul Haque, “Modeling of hole direct tunneling gate current in pMOS devices," 2nd International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, December 26-28, 2002, pp. 76-79, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
- Khairul Alam and Roger Lake, “Transport, device design, and performance analysis of carbon nanotube transistors” Chapter 2 in encyclopedia of semiconductor nanotechnology, vol.7, pp. 1-34, year 2011, edited by Ahmad Umar, published by American Scientific Publishers, USA.
(1) JSPS fellowship of Japan government (August 2012 – August 2014).
(2) UGC 2009 award in Engineering and Technology for research on strain effects on the performance of a graphene nanoribbon transistor
(3) 4th place in poster competition, FENA Annual Review Meeting, Lax Hotel, California, January 18-19, 2005
(4) Best graduate student, Electrical Engineering Department, University of California, Riverside, USA, 2004
(5) College Fellowship, University of California, Riverside, (Fall 2003 - Fall 2006)
(6) Merit scholarship during undergraduate study
The courses that I have been teaching over the last couple of years include EEE101, EEE102, EEE201, EEE301, EEE414, EEE417, and EEE447. The course related information and the course materials are available in the google classroom. Students of the corresponding courses can login to the course google classroom account and view or download the materials.
