Kashif Masud Awan

Research

Kashif Masud Awan completed his BS in engineering from NUST (Pakistan) in 2009, followed by serving the national space agency, SUPARCO for a couple of years. He then pursued his master’s under the Erasmus Mundus scholarship at St. Andrew's University (UK) and Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden). He then served as a lecturer at Iqra University (Pakistan) for one year, before pursuing PhD at University of Ottawa, under the Canada Excellence Research Chair doctoral fellowship.
   
Awan completed his PhD in electrical engineering in 2018 focused on the fabrication of III-V semiconductor devices for nonlinear optics. Following his doctorate he joined University of British Columbia as a research associate leading micro and nanofabrication of optical devices at the Quantum Matter institute for applications in bio sensing, optical communication and quantum computing.

Biography

Awan joined Washington University in 2022 as a Professor of Practice and is teaching courses focused on micro and nanofabrication and also managing the IMSE cleanroom. He is interested in fabricating and characterizing tiny stuff (from several microns all the way down to tens of nanometers) and is open to collaborating with fellow WashU faculty.

Affiliations

• The Institute of Materials Science & Engineering