EHS Team
Lead Investigator
Md Masud Rana, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
Dr. Md Masud Rana joined as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UT Tyler in Fall 2024.
Research: Piezo/Tribo energy harvesting, Micro/nano fabrication of perovskite materials, Self
powered structural health monitoring, Self-powered Wearable Biosensors
Self-powered Plant and Soil Sensors, Computational Materials Science.
Shawana Tabassum, Ph.D.
Associate Director, EHS
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Graduate Research Assistant
Md Mafidul Islam
Master's in Electrical Engineering.
Graduate Research Assistant, Started in Fall 2025
Research Interest: Computational Materials Science, Nano-materials Synthesis, Energy Harvester, Solar cell, Composite Material.
I K Gusral Ghosh Apurba
Master's in Electrical Engineering.
Graduate Research Assistant, Started in Fall 2026
Research Interest: Computational Materials Science, DFT using Quantum Espresso, Semiconductor
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Cameron Vickers
BS in Electrical Engineering
Undergraduate Research Assistant (Spring 2026)
Research Interest: Power Systems, Circuitry Design, Fabrication of Energy Aware Electronics and Sensing system
Izuchukwu Felix
BS in Electrical Engineering
Undergraduate Research Assistant (Spring 2026)
Research Interest: Self-Powered Sensor Devices, Solar and Thermal Energy Conversion Mechanisms.
William Hightower
BS in Electrical Engineering
Undergraduate Research Assistant (Spring 2026)
Research Interest: Power Quality Monitoring, Embedded Systems Implementation, Data Equisition and Analysis.
Valentin Fajardo
BS in Electrical Engineering
Undergraduate Research Assistant (Spring 2026)
Research Interest: Embedded System, Signal Processing, Renewable Tribo/Piezoelectric Materials.
Joshuah Lee
BS in Electrical Engineering
Undergraduate Research Assistant (Spring 2026)
Research Interest: Network Engineering, Embadded System, Computer Architecture and Digital Signal Processing
Alumni
Md Adil Hossain
Graduated in Summer 2026 and started his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering in University of Central Flourida in Fall 2026. He did research on Pieze/Triboelectric Nanogenerator, Semiconductor Thin Film Sysnthesis, Selfpower optoelectronics, Solar cell, Density Functional Theory Calculation, Sweat Sensor in EHS Lab, UT Tyler.
Md Rasidul Islam Ph.D.
He was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in EHS Lab of Electrical Engineering Department
His Research Experities is in Computational Materials Science (DFT), Fabrication of Perovskite Solar cell, and Energy Harvester device.