Dr. AKM Sarwar Inam
Dr. A K M Sarwar Inam
Department of Electrical Engineering
The University of Texas at Tyler
RBN 1014, 3900 University Blvd.
Tyler, TX 75799
Dr. A K M Sarwar Inam is a postdoctoral research associate in the Biosensors and Bioinformatics Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering, The University of Texas at Tyler. He develops electrochemical and bioelectronic sensors — amperometric, potentiometric, and transistor-based — for continuous monitoring in water, soil, plant, and biological environments. His current work includes multi-analyte platforms measuring nitrate, ammonium, pH, and temperature in aquatic environments; microneedle sensors that measure analyte concentrations within living tissue in real time; bioinspired antifouling electrode architectures that extend continuous operating life; and MXene-based devices for wound monitoring. He is a Co-Principal Investigator on a NASA-funded program developing multiplexed phytohormone and nitrate sensors for plant stress in spaceflight-like conditions ($235,554), and Principal Investigator of a Southwest Center for Agricultural Health award developing a fingertip pesticide sensor and wrist-worn physiological patch for real-time monitoring of pesticide exposure, heat strain and dehydration ($25,000). He is a co-inventor on a U.S. patent application for an integrated water-quality sensing system.
He earned his Ph.D. in Food Engineering and Biotechnology from the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (2022), with a dissertation on flexible screen-printed electrochemical sensors for food contaminant detection, and continued there as a postdoctoral researcher in the Sensing Technologies Laboratory, where he developed printed strain and temperature sensors for respiratory and smart-textile monitoring. He holds an Erasmus Mundus joint M.Sc. in Food Science, Technology and Nutrition (KU Leuven and partner universities, 2014), and an M.S. (2009) and B.Sc. (2007) in Food Engineering from Bangladesh Agricultural University. He previously served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Engineering at Daffodil International University in Bangladesh. He has published more than 30 peer-reviewed articles, including in Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Science, and Talanta.
Research Areas
Flexible and printed electrochemical sensors; biosensors for agricultural, environmental,
and biomedical monitoring; microneedle and in-tissue sensing; antifouling electrode
chemistry for long-duration operation; wearable and skin-interfaced devices; multi-analyte
platforms with wireless acquisition and machine-learning calibration.
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