Profile
Trying to be curious and young.
General Information
| Full Name | Mahfuzul Islam (Nickname: Mahfuz) |
| Origin | Bangladesh |
| Languages | Bengali, English, Japanese, Arabic (Reading and writing) |
| Philosophy | I am eager to learn the great stories of humankind. I believe that most humans in this world are good, decent people with good hearts. I also think that we are all connected. Humans are one big family, and every bit of happiness and suffering affects us in one way or another. |
| Biography | Dr. Mahfuzul Islam received a B.E. degree in electrical and electronic engineering in 2009, an M.E. degree in communications and computer engineering in 2011, and a Ph.D. degree in Informatics in 2014, all from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. From 2013 to 2015, he was a Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. He joined the Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, as a Research Associate in 2015. From 2018 to 2024, he had been a Junior Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering at Kyoto University. He is now an Associate Professor at the Department of Information and Communications Engineering, School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology. His research interests include low-power CMOS analog and mixed-signal circuit design, on-chip voltage regulators, and power device reliability monitoring. Dr. Islam received the Best Paper Awards at ICMTS'2017 and ICMTS'2023, the best design award at ASP-DAC'2023, and the Student Design Award at A-SSCC'2013. Dr. Islam received several prestigious awards, such as IPSJ Computer Science Award for Young Researchers and IEEE CEDA All Japan Joint Chapter Academic Research Award. He is a member of IEEE, IEICE, and IPSJ. |
Education
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2011.4 â 2014.1 Ph.D.
Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan - Thesis: Modeling, Characterization and Compensation of Performance Variability Using On-chip Monitor Circuits for Energy-efficient LSI
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2009.4 â 2011.3 Master
Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan -
2007.4 â 2009.3 Bachelor
Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan -
2004.4 â 2007.3 Associate Degree
Oita National College of Technology, Oita, Japan -
2003.4 â 2004.3 Diploma
Tokyo Japanese Language Center, Tokyo, Japan -
2002.2 â 2003.3 Bachelor (left for Japan)
Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Experience
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2024.3 â Present Associate Professor
Department of Information and Communications Engineering, School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology -
2018.10 â 2024.3 Junior Associate Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University -
2015.4 â 2018.9 Research Associate
Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo -
2013.4 â 2015.3 Research Fellow of JSPS
Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University
Research Interests
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Analog to digital converter
- Temperature sensor
- Voltage sensor
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Power management
- Digital Low dropout regulator
- Switched capacitor DC/DC converter
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Security and Computing
- Stochastic computing
- Random number generator
Other Interests
- Traveling. I enjoy traveling with my family. Traveling sets my mind free and forces me to think differently.
- Sports. I love playing sports. I am actively participating in Japan cricket leagues. Occassionaly, I play badminton.
- Gardening. With gardening, I get the feeling of my connection to the nature and others.
- Doing nothing. Sometimes it is essential to keep yourself bored by doing nothing. You will be amazed at how much new ideas emerge when you are doing nothing.
Honors and Awards (Selective)
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2023 Best Paper
- IEEE International Conference on Microelectronic Test Structures (ICMTS)
- Measurement of temperature effect on comparator offset voltage variation
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2023 IPSJ Computer Science Research Award for Young Scientists
- IPSJ Computer Science Research Award for Young Scientists
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2023 Academic Research Award
- IEEE CEDA All Japan Joint Chapter
- Low-Power Design of Digital LDO with Adaptive Frequency Scaling based on MOSFETs' subthreshold current
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2023 Best Design
- ACM/IEEE Asian South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC)
- A fully synchronous digital LDO with built-in adaptive frequency modulation and implicit dead-zone control
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2020 Academic Research Award
- IEEE CEDA All Japan Joint Chapter
- Design of reference-free CMOS temperature sensor with statistical MOSFET selection
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2017 Best paper
- IEEE International Conference on Microelectronic Test Structures (ICMTS)
- A statistical modeling methodology of RTN gate size dependency based on skewed ring oscillators
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2013 Student Design Contest Award
- IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference
- Reconfigurable Delay Cell for Area-efficient Implementation of On-chip MOSFET Monitor Schemes