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Dr. Nazmul Islam is serving
as a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Dr. Islam is also serving as an
associate dean in the College of Engineering and Computer Science. He has
served as an associate professor and assistant professor in Electrical
Engineering at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and the University
of Texas Brownsville. Before joining UTRGV he worked as an assistant
professor at Northern Arizona University. He received his Ph.D. in
Electrical Engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He
worked as a post-doctoral research associate in the biomedical engineering
department at the University of Tennessee. Dr.
Islam finished his M.Sc in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech in
2002. Dr. Islam earned his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He
also worked at the Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN, as an intern and
research associate.
Dr. Islam is leading the
research efforts of Nano-Bio Research Group at the University of Texas Rio
Grande Valley. His current research concentrates in the areas of
Micro/Nano-fluidics, Bio-sensors and MEMS/NEMS devices. Dr. Islam's efforts
span across the university as he assisted in the development of a Ph.D. in
Materials Science and Engineering at UTRGV and the MS in Biomedical
Engineering program. Dr. Nazmul Islam worked as the MEMS division Chair at
ASME from 2022-23. Before that, he served as Vice Chair, Secretary, and
member at large in the MEMS division of ASME. He organizes numerous
symposiums, sessions at ASME Summer conferences and IMECE. Currently, he is
a Senior IEEE. For his research and professional experience, Dr. Islam was
elected as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
in 2023.
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NSF panelist, PFI (MCA): Biomedical Engineering & Biosensors;
virtual panel; June 2024.
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NSF I-Corps award for collaboration with UCO and ENF LLC
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Elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
(ASME), April 2023
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Texas Academic Leadership Academy (TALA) Fellow; 2022 – 23.
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First Prize award poster presentation at CEE-E3
Symposium, South Padre Island, TX March 23rd, 2023.
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The R&D Award; 60th Anniversary 2022 and 61st
anniversary 2023 Judging.
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Faculty Fellow for the Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr. Endowed Chair in
Engineering, UTRGV, 2018-19 and 2019-20.
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Faculty Fellow at Research Triad Mentorship
Program, ESL, UTRGV, 2017, Spring 2018.
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Associate Editor, Journal of Fluid Engineering (JFE), under ASME;
April 2019 -March 2022.
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Guest Editor, Biomicrofluidics issue, JFE, ASME, 2018 - present
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NSF panelist, Washington DC, March 2016.
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Elevated to Senior IEEE member position, 2014
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Nominated for UT System Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award 2014
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Recognition for Excellence in Research by College of Science,
Mathematics and Technology, CSMT 2014, UTB
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First Prize award for student’s poster presentation at UTB Research
Symposium, April 2013.
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NSF Summer Institute Fellowship Award, 2012.
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Olegario Vasquez Rana Faculty Fellow FY 2011-12, the University of
Texas at Brownsville.
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Recipient of NSF Summer Fellowship Award, 2010.
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Marquis Who’s Who in America 2009 - 2012.
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Science
Foundation Arizona (SFAz) Fellowship award for recruiting graduate student,
2008.
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Post Doctoral
Fellowship award, 2007, Biomedical Engineering, University of
Tennessee.
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University
Travel Award for joining Virginia Tech Symposium, June 2004.
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Summer
internship award, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN, 2003
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