Shamim Ara Shawkat

• Biotechnology and bio-sensor design particularly for lab-on-chip applications
• Analog and Mixed-signal circuit design
• Neuromorphic Computing
• Wireless power transfer for biomedical applications
• Photodetector modeling, design, and testing
• Wireless Communications and Networking

• Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering, Expected Graduation in Fall 2019, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
• M.Sc. in Global Information and Telecommunications (By Research), September 2006, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
• B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, March 2002, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh

• Mentor at High School Introduction to Engineering Systems (HITES) summer program 2017, 2018, 2019
• Student Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Student Member of IEEE Women in Engineering
• Member of IEEE Young Professionals
• Student Member of Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)
• Member of Systers, a volunteer student organization of women in EECS, UTK
• Reviewer for, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, IEEE Electronic Device Letters,IEEE Sensors Conference

• Chancellor Fellowship (Ph. D. study 2015-2019)
• Chancellor Citation Award for Extraordinary Professional Promise 2017, 2018, and 2019
• Graduate Student Senate Travel Award (to attend IEEE Sensors 2017 conference)
• IEEE WIE Travel Grant by Systers Organization, 2015
• Deans Awards for securing honors marks in each academic year of undergraduate study
• Merit scholarship in all levels including primary, secondary (junior high school)

Book Chapter

• • M. S. Hasan, M. S. A. Shawkat, S. Amer, S. K. Islam, N. McFarlane, and G. S. Rose, “Modeling Emerging Semiconductor Devices for Circuit Simulation” in Modeling and Simulation in Engineering, in Intech, 2019.

Peer Reviewed Articles

• Mst Shamim Ara Shawkat, Mohammad Habib Ullah Habib, and Nicole McFarlane, “An Analog CMOS Silicon Photomultiplier Using Perimeter-Gated Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS-I), Vol. 65, no. 11, pp. 3830 - 3841, Oct. 2018 (Impact Factor: 2.823).
• 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,” published in International Journal of High Speed Electronics and Systems, Vol. 27, No. 03 & 04, pp.1840018, May 2019
• Md. Sakib Hasan, S. Shamsir, Mst Shamim Ara Shawkat, F. Garcia, S.K. Islam, and Nicole McFarlane, “Macromodel of G4FET Enabling Fast and Reliable SPICE Simulation for Innovative Circuit Applications,” published in International Journal of High Speed Electronics and Systems, Vol. 27, No. 03 & 04, May 2019.
• Md. Sakib Hasan, S. Shamsir, Mst Shamim Ara Shawkat, F. Garcia, S.K. Islam, and Nicole McFarlane, “Multivibrate Regression Polynomial: A versatile and efficient method for DC modeling of different transistors (MOSFET, MESFET, HBT, HEMT and G4FET),” published in International Journal of High Speed Electronics and Systems, Vol. 27, No. 03 & 04, May 2019.
• 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”, published in PLOS ONE, Mar. 2019 (Impact Factor: 2.766).
• Tangina Sultana, M. S. Ara Shawkat, Mohammad Shah Alam, Md. Delowar Hossain and Ashis kumar Mandal, “Reducing Peak to Average Power Ratio of OFDM Signals using Tukey Window Technique”, International Journal of Scientific Engineering and Technology”, Vol. No.2, Issue No.9, pp. 879-883, Sep. 2013.
• Mohammad Shah Alam, Shamim Ara Shawkat, Gontaro Kitazumi and Mitsuji Matsumoto, “Performance Evaluation of IrSimple Protocol and Its Efficiency Enhancement with Effective Error Control and Flow Control Schemes”, Institute of Image Electronics Engineers of Japan Journal on Visual Computing, Devices and Communications, Vol.38, N0.2, Mar. 2009.
• Mohammad Shah Alam, Shamim Ara Shawkat, Gontaro Kitazumi and Mitsuji Matsumoto, “IrBurst Modeling and Performance Evaluation for Large Data Block Exchange over High-Speed IrDA Links”, Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) Transaction on Communications, Vol. E91-B, No.1, pp.274-285, Jan. 2008.

Peer-reviewed conference papers

•  Mst Shamim Ara Shawkat, and Nicole McFarlane, “Fundamentals of Perimeter Gated Single Photon Avalanche Diodes used in Silicon Photomultipliers for Nuclear Imaging,” accepted in IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Manchester, UK, Oct. 2019.
• Mst Shamim Ara Shawkat Md Sakib Hasan, and Nicole McFarlane, “Modeling of Silicon Photomultiplier Based on Perimeter Gated Single Photon Avalanche Diode,” accepted in IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), Dallas, Texas, Aug. 2019.  
• Mst Shamim Ara Shawkat, and Nicole McFarlane, “A CMOS Perimeter Gated SPAD Based Digital Silicon Photomultiplier with Asynchronous AER Readout for PET Applications,” in IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), Cleveland, Ohio, USA, Oct. 2018 .  
• Mst Shamim Ara Shawkat and Nicole McFarlane, “A CMOS Perimeter Gated SPAD Based mini-Digital Silicon Photomultiplier,” in IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), Windsor, Canada, Aug. 2018.  
•  Mst Shamim Ara Shawkat and Nicole McFarlane, “A Differential ISFET pH Sensor,” in IEEE Sensors Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, Oct. 2017.
• Mohammad Habib Ullah Habib, Mst Shamim Ara Shawkat, and Nicole McFarlane, “A tunable Single Photon Diode Pixel with Improved Time Resolution,” in IEEE Sensors Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, Oct. 2017.  
• Mst Shamim Ara Shawkat and Nicole McFarlane, “A Single-Chip ISFET Based pH Sensor,” in IEEE Sensors Conference, Orlando, FL, USA, Nov. 2016.  
• Mohammad Habib Ullah Habib, Mst Shamim Ara Shawkat and Nicole McFarlane, “Improved Signal to Noise Ratio Across the Spectral Range for CMOS Silicon Photomultipliers,” in IEEE Sensors Conference, Orlando, FL, USA, Nov. 2016.  
•  Shaghayegh Aslanzadeh, Ava Hedayatipour, Mst Shamim Ara Shawkat and Nicole McFarlane, “A differential Low-Power Voltage-Clamped ISFET Topology for Biomedical Applications,” in IEEE Dallas Circuits and Systems Conference, Dallas, Texas, USA, Nov. 2018.
• Md Khurram Monir Rabby, Mohammad Shah Alam, Shamim Ara Shawkat and Mohammed Asadul Hoque, "A Scheduling Scheme for Efficient Wireless Charging of Sensor Nodes in WBAN", in IEEE/ACM Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies, USA, July 2017.  
• Jenifar Rahman, Mohammad Shah Alam, Shamim Ara Shawkat and Mohammed Asadul Hoque, "A Bidirectional Multi-flow MAC Protocol for Multihop Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks", in ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks and Systems, Canada, Nov. 2017. 
• Md Khurram Monir Rabby, Shamim Ara Shawkat and Mohammad Shah Alam, "Performance Evaluation of Saturating Class – C Driver Circuit for Inductive Wireless Power Transfer", in IEEE International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bangladesh, Dec. 2016. 
• Md Khurram Monir Rabby, Shamim Ara Shawkat and Mohammad Shah Alam,"Application of Current Limiting Inductance Effect on Class – E Driver Circuit for Inductive Wireless Power Transfer", in IEEE International WIE Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, India, Dec. 2016. 
• Tangina Sultana, and Shamim Ara Shawkat, “Employment of pulse shaping techniques for efficient PAPR reduction in OFDM system”, in IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2014.  
• Mohammad Shah Alam, Shamim Ara Shawkat, Gontaro Kitazumi and Mitsuji Matsumoto,” Future challenges of Irsimple protocol: Efficient flow control scheme and long distance capability”, in IEEE International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T) Kaleidoscope Academic Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, May 2008.  
• Shamim Ara Shawkat, Mohammad Shah Alam, and Mitsuji Matsumoto “On the Suitability of IrBurst for High-Speed Exchange over high-speed IrDA links”, in IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Las Vegas, USA, April 2006.  
• Shamim Ara Shawkat, Mohammad Shah Alam, and Mitsuji Matsumoto “An efficient selective-repeat ARQ scheme for half-duplex infrared links under high bit error rate conditions”, in IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas, USA, Jan. 2006. 
• Shamim Ara Shawkat, Mohammad Shah Alam, and Mitsuji Matsumoto “A Performance Comparison of IrBurst and IrOBEX for High-Speed Exchange of Large Data Contents”, in IEEE Sarnoff Symposium Conference, Princeton, NJ, USA, Mar. 2006.  
•  Shamim Ara Shawkat, Mohammad Shah Alam and Mitsuji Matsumoto, “Block Window Retransmission ARQ Scheme for Next Generation High Speed Infrared Links,” in IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing, Phuket, Thailand, Jan. 2006.