Rate My Professor Ahmed Busnaina

Ahmed Busnaina is the WL Smith Chair and University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Northeastern University, and affiliated faculty in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Oklahoma State University in 1983. Before joining Northeastern University in 2000, Busnaina was a professor and director of the Particulate Control Lab at Clarkson University from 1983 to 2000. He is the founding director of several NSF centers, including the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing since 2004, the Center for Microcontamination Control since 2002, and the Advanced Nanomanufacturing Cluster for Smart Sensors and Materials since 2015. Additionally, he is the founder and Chief Technology Officer of Nano OPS, Inc., established in 2017.

Busnaina is internationally recognized for his pioneering work in semiconductor fabrication, with a focus on nano- and microscale defects mitigation and removal. He has developed innovative directed assembly-based nano- and microscale additive manufacturing processes for inorganic and organic conductors, semiconductors, and dielectrics, enabling the creation of micro- and nanoscale interconnects, passive and active electronic components, LEDs, sensors, and other devices. His research specializations include nanomanufacturing, nano- and microscale printing of sensors and electronics, high-rate nanomanufacturing, power electronics, RF and NEMS devices, and nanomaterials-based nanoelectronics, flexible and hybrid electronics. Busnaina has authored more than 600 papers in journals, proceedings, and conferences, and holds 25 granted patents with 45 pending. Selected publications are "High-Rate Printing of Micro/Nanoscale Patterns Using Interfacial Convective Assembly" (Advanced Materials, 2020), "Fabrication of Organic Field Effect Transistors using Directed Assembled and Transfer Printed Carbon Nanotube Source/Drain Electrodes" (Applied Physics Letters, 2019), and "Fabrication of a Nanoelectromechanical Bistable Switch Using Directed Assembly of SWCNTs" (Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2020). Among his numerous honors are the 2020 William T. Ennor Manufacturing Technology Award and Medal from ASME, 2018 Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, Life Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013 Willis J. Whitfield Award from the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology, and Fulbright Senior Scholar awards. He serves as editor of the Journal of Microelectronic Engineering, associate editor of the Journal of Nanoparticle Research, and on advisory boards for Samsung Electronics, Journal of Electronic Materials Letters, Journal of Nanomaterials, and Journal of Nanomanufacturing.