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Md Masud Rana

Masud Rana

Assistant Professor

Phone: 903.565.5730
Email: mrana@uttyler.edu
Building:   RBN 2013
Department: Electrical Engineering

Degrees

Ph.D., University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada 
M.Sc., Khulna University of Engineering and Technology, Khulna, Bangladesh
B.Sc., Khulna University of Engineering and Technology, Khulna, Bangladesh 

Postdoctoral Training

University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada   

Biography 

Dr. Md Masud Rana joined as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UT Tyler in Fall 2024.  He completed his postdoctoral training from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, in 2024 and obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo in 2023.  Dr. Rana earned his Master of Science (M.Sc.) and Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Khulna University of Engineering and Technology, Khulna, Bangladesh, in 2017, and 2013 respectively. 

Dr. Rana also serves as the director of Energy Harvesting and Sensing lab (EHS-Lab)   in which his research group is designing and developing self-powered sensing system for the real time applications, including structural health monitoring (SHM) in the aerospace industry to enhance aircraft safety and consistency through reliable sensor networks, smart sensing system for remote agriculture monitoring,  self powered sensor for environmental monitoring such as, wind, moisture and temperature sensing. These Built-in sensor networks enable uninterrupted structural integrity monitoring, crops health, and greenhouse controlled through smart real time environment sensing by providing crucial information.

Dr. Rana is a Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Dr. Rana has been a recipient of several university-level, as well as national-level, awards. 

Research Interests 

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  

Awards & Honors 

Rising STARs Award, The University of Texas System (2024)
Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology Nano fellowship (2022) (Nanofellowships)
Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology Nano fellowship (2021)
Faculty of Engineering Award, University of Waterloo (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)
Research Excellence Award, University of Waterloo (2021)
Best Paper Award finalist, IEEE Conference (2013)  

Courses taught 

EENG 3306– Electronic Circuit Analysis I
EENG 3106– Electronic Circuit Analysis I Laboratory
EENG 4309– Electronic Circuit Analysis II
EENG 4109– Electronic Circuit Analysis II Laboratory 

 Selected Publications  

  1. IK Gusral Ghosh Apurba, Md Rasidul Islam, Md Masud Rana*, Jehan Y Al-Humaidi, AM Quraishi, Parvez Ali, Md Shizer Rahman “Tuning the optoelectronic, mechanical, and thermodynamic properties of lead-free Mg3NF3 perovskite with tunable strain through DFT study” Physica B: Condensed Matter, 2025, 699, 416879 
  2. Md. Shane Alam Biswas Shakin, Md Tawabur Rahman, Sudipto Nandi Shanto, Md Masud Rana, “Au-Loaded    WS2/SnO2 Heterostructure for Room Temperature Detection of CO at ppb-Level” IEEE Sensors Journal, 2024, 24 (22), 36386 - 36392  
  3. Resul Saritas *, Majed Al-Ghamdi, Taylan Das, Omar Rasheed, Samed Kocer, Ahmet Gulsaran, Asif Abdullah Khan, Md. Masud Rana, M.E. Khater, Muhammed Kayaharman, Dayan Ban, Mustafa Yavuz, Eihab Abdel-Rahman " Nano Groove and Prism Structured Triboelectric Nanogenerator " Micromachines, 2023, 14(9), 1707 
  4. Majid Haji Bagheri, Asif Abdullah Khan, Shamaila Shahzadi, Md Masud Rana, Soyaeb Hasan and Dayan Ban "Advancements and Challenges in Molecular/Hybrid Perovskites for Nanogenerator Application: A Comprehensive Review " Nano Energy, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2023.109101  
  5. Asif Abdullah Khan*, Md Masud Rana*, Sasa Wang, Md Fahim Al-Fattah, Muhammed Kayaharman, Kaiping Zhang, Shawn Benedict,  I.A. Goldthorpe, Y. Norman Zhou, Edward H. Sargent, Dayan Ban " Control of Halogen Atom in Inorganic Metal-Halide Perovskites Enables Large Piezoelectricity for Electromechanical Energy Generation" Small, 2023, 202303366  
  6. Md Masud Rana, Asif Abdullah Khan, Weiguang Zhu, Md Fahim Al Fattah, Sathursan Kokilathasan, Shazzad Rassel, Rozenn Gautheron-Bernard, Soraya Ababou-Girard, Pascal Turban, Shuhong Xu, Chunlei Wang, and Dayan Ban " Enhanced Piezoelectricity in Lead-free Halide Perovskite Nanocomposite for Self-Powered Wireless Electronics" Nano Energy, 101, 2022, 107631. 
  7. Nicolas R. Tanguy*, Md. Masud Rana*, Asif A. Khan, Xiao Zhang, Nicole Tratnik, Heyu Chen, Dayan Ban, and Ning Yan, " Natural lignocellulosic nanofibrils as tribonegative materials for self-powered wireless electronics." Nano Energy, 98, 2022, 107337.  
  8. Weiguang Zhu, Asif Abdullah Khan, Md Masud Rana, Rozenn Gautheron-Bernard, Nicolas R. Tanguy, Ning Yan, Pascal Turban, Soraya Ababou-Girard, Dayan Ban, “Poly(vinylidene fluoride)-Stabilized Black γ‑Phase CsPbI3 Perovskite for High-Performance Piezoelectric Nanogenerators” ACS Omega, 2022, 7, 12, 10559–10567. 
  9. Asif Abdullah Khan, Resul Saritas, Md Masud Rana, Nicolas Tanguy, Weiguang Zhu, Nanqin Mei, Sathursan Kokilathasan, Shazzad Rassel, Zoya Leonenko, Ning Yan, Eihab Abdel-Rahman, Dayan Ban, “Performance-Improved Highly Integrated Uniaxial Tristate Hybrid Nanogenerator for Sustainable Mechanical Energy Harvesting” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, (2022), 3,14, 4119–4131. 
  10. MD FAHIM AL FATTAH, Asif Abdullah Khan, Hossein Anabestani, Md Masud Rana, SM Shazzad Rassel, Joel Therrien and Dayan Ban, “Sensing of Ultraviolet Light: A Transition from Conventional to Self-powered Photodetector” Nanoscale, (2021), 13, 15526-15551. 
  11. Asif Abdullah Khan, Guangguang Huang, Md Masud Rana, Nanqin Mei, Margherita Biondi, Shazzad Rassel, Nicolas Tanguy, Bin Sun, Zoya Leonenko, Ning Yan, Chunlei Wang, Shuhong Xu, Dayan Ban, “Superior Transverse Piezoelectricity in Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Perovskite Nanorods for Mechanical Energy harvesting” Nano Energy, (2021), 86, 2021, 106039. 
  12. G Huang, A. A. Khan, M. M. Rana, C. Xu, S. Xu, R. Saritas, S. Zhang, E. A-Rahman, P. Turban, S. A-Girard, C. Wang and D. Ban, "Achieving Ultrahigh Piezoelectricity in Organic-Inorganic Vacancy-Ordered Halide Double Perovskites for Mechanical Energy Harvesting", ACS Energy Letter, (2020), 6, 16-23. 
  13. Md Masud Rana, Asif Abdullah Khan, Guangguang Huang*, Nanqin Mei, Resul Saritas, Boyu Wen, Steven Zhang, Peter Voss, Eihab Abdel-Rahman, Zoya Leonenko, Shariful Islam, and Dayan Ban, "Porosity Modulated High-Performance Piezoelectric Nanogenerator Based on Organic/Inorganic Nanomaterial for Self-Powered Structural Health Monitoring", ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, (2020), 12, 42, 47503–12.  
  14. Asif Abdullah Khan, Md Masud Rana, Guangguang Huang, Nanqin Mei, Resul Saritas, Boyu Wen, Steven Zhang, Peter Voss, Eihab-Abdel Rahman, Zoya Leonenko, Shariful Islam, Dayan Ban, "Maximizing piezoelectricity by self-assembled highly porous perovskite–polymer composite films to enable the internet of things", Journal of Material Chemistry A, (2020), 8, 27, 13619-1362  

 Book Chapter 

  1. M. Rana, A. A. Khan and D. Ban, Optoelectronic Organic-Inorganic Semiconductor Heterojunctions, ISBN:9781000325713, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, 2020
    https://www.amazon.ca/s?k=9781000325713&i=stripbooks&linkCode=qs  

US Patent

Dayan Ban, Asif Abdullah Khan, Md Masud Rana, Guangguang Huang, Steven Zhang, Shariful Islam and Peter Voss "Piezoelectric composite film and method for making the same" US Patent, PCT/CA2021/050892 

Complete List of Publications & Patents