Dr. Rabiul Islam is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Mississippi, where he joined the faculty in August 2025.
Research Interests
- Lithium-ion modulated memristors with programmable volatile and non-volatile switching
- Iontronic synaptic devices for reservoir computing and temporal signal processing
- Multi-level resistive memory programming for analog in-memory computing
- Helimagnet and STT-MRAM devices for high-density multi-bit storage
- Plasma etching and nanofabrication of magnetic tunnel junctions
- Back-end-of-line integration of emerging memory on foundry CMOS chips
Biography
Dr. Rabiul Islam is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Mississippi, where he leads the MemBrain research group. His research focuses on nanoscale memory devices for neuromorphic and in-memory computing, with the goal of building energy-efficient hardware for artificial intelligence. Dr. Islam received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, with a specialization in Nanotechnology, from the University of Waterloo, Canada, under the supervision of Professors Guo-Xing Miao and Manoj Sachdev. His doctoral research on tunable volatile and multi-bit non-volatile memristors produced a lithium-imbued titanium oxide device that can operate as both short-term and long-term memory, published in ACS Nano and protected by patent filings. During his time at Waterloo, he also integrated these devices onto commercial CMOS chips fabricated by TSMC and completed six years of hands-on research in the Quantum-Nano Fabrication and Characterization Facility. He earned his M.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET), Bangladesh, where he studied high-speed indium antimonide quantum well transistors. Before joining Ole Miss in 2025, Dr. Islam spent more than a decade in academia in Bangladesh, as a lecturer at International Islamic University Chittagong and then as a Lecturer and Assistant Professor at CUET. There he taught courses across electronics, semiconductor devices, and power systems, supervised undergraduate research, and helped establish a cleanroom and renewable energy research laboratory. Dr. Islam has authored more than 30 peer-reviewed publications, and his work has been cited by researchers worldwide as well as in industry roadmaps and U.S. and European patents. He serves as a reviewer for journals including Advanced Functional Materials and Applied Physics Letters, and is a member of IEEE and the American Physical Society. His honors include the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology Nanofellowship.
Education
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, University of Waterloo (2025)