Purdue alumnus receives EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award
A Purdue ECE alumnus has been selected to receive the EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award 2019 in recognition research done as a PhD student at Purdue. Ahmedullah Aziz received his PhD ECE in 2019. His dissertation was entitled “Device-Circuit Co-design Employing Phase Transition Materials for Low Power Electronics.” This is the first time a Purdue grad has received this international recognition, which is given by the European Design and Automation Association (EDAA) annually.
The EDAA established the award in 2003 to recognize the importance of university research to the advancement of design, automation and test, and to encourage young researchers to work in the field. Four award categories were considered for 2019. Aziz’s award is in the category of “New Directions in logic, physical design and CAD for analog/mixed-signal, nano-scale and emerging technologies.”
Aziz’s says he is deeply honored to receive this recognition.
“It will be a significant milestone in my career and will encourage me in my future endeavors,” he says. “I am grateful to my Ph.D. supervisor, Dr. Sumeet Gupta, doctoral committee members, academic mentors, and my family for their relentless support and encouragement.”
Aziz also received the Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award from Purdue’s College of Engineering in 2019. His Ph.D. research portfolio comprised of a diverse and broad domain of emerging electronics. Aziz worked on device-circuit co-design with CMOS and post-CMOS technologies to overcome daunting challenges in the concurrent semiconductor industry. He explored and utilized unique characteristics of complex materials like correlated oxides, ferroelectrics, and 2D transition metal di-chalcogenides to design novel devices and circuits for the next-generation processors and digital data storage.
Aziz is currently a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.