Dr. Sharmin Abdullah Joins CDS Faculty

Dr. Sharmin Abdullah has recently joined the George Mason University faculty as an assistant professor in the department of Computational and Data Sciences.

Sharmin earned her bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2013. She received Dean’s honor list award for academic excellence.

She completed her Master’s in 2019 and Ph.D. in 2021 in Computational Science from The University of Texas at El Paso. She worked as a teaching assistant for Computational Science program and as a research associate at the Nanomil Lab in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department of UTEP during her graduate studies. She completed her dissertation work with the prestigious 2021-2022 Diana Natalicio Dissertation Research Fellowship from UTEP Graduate School. She also received the Ph.D. Academic and Research Excellence Award from the Computation Science Program at UTEP in Fall 2021.

Sharmin’s research focus is on atomistic simulations of material characteristics. She has worked on analyzing the microstructures of photovoltaic thin film materials via molecular dynamics to improve the solar cell efficiency. She has performed research for a project funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and collaborated with a scientist from Sandia National Laboratories. She worked as a research fellow at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the summer of 2019. Sharmin is the co-author of several publications in peer reviewed journals. She has attended several national and international research conferences including IEEE PVSC conference, MRS Fall and Spring Meetings and 2021 International High Performance Computing Summer School.