Sk Md Ali Zaker Shawon

EDUCATION
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering                                                                                                                                       Summer 2021- Present
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX               
MS in Chemistry                                                                                                                                                              May 2021
Jashore University of Science and Technology, Jashore, Bangladesh
B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering                                                                                                                                        December 2013

PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL/ARTICLE PUBLICATIONS

• Sk Md Ali Zaker Shawon, Zaida D Carballo,Valeria Suarez Vega, Chen lin, Muhammad Sufian Rafaqut, Andrew Xu Sun, James Li, M. Jasim Uddin. Surface modified hybrid ZnSnO3 nanocubes for enhanced piezoelectric power generation and wireless sensory application. Nano Energy, 2021. DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2021.106653
• Sk Md Ali Zaker Shawon, Andrew Xu Sun, Valeria Suarez Vega, Brishty Deb Choudhury, Phong Tran, Zaida D Carballo, Jim Aica Tolentino, Jianzhi Li, Muhammad Sufian Rafaqut, Serena Danti, M. Jasim Uddin. Piezo-Tribo Dual Effect Hybrid Nanogenerators for Health Monitoring. Nano Energy, 2020. DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2020.105691.
• Brishty Deb Choudhury, Chen Lin¥, Sk Md Ali Zaker Shawon¥, Javier Solis-Martinez, Jose Gutierrez, Nurul Huda, Federico Cesano, Jin Z. Zhang, M. Jasim Uddin. Carbon Fibers Coated with Ternary Ni-Co-Se Alloy Particles as Novel Low-cost Counter Electrode for Flexible Dye Sensitized Solar Cell. ACS Applied Energy Materials, 2021. DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.0c02764 ACS.  (¥: Contributed Equally)
• Brishty Deb Choudhury, Chen Lin, Javier Soliz-Martinez, Sk Md Ali Zaker Shawon, Hasina Huq, M. Jasim Uddin. The Microstructured Photoanode with Hierarchical Forest-Like TiO2 Structure with Plasmonic Nanoparticles for Three-Dimensional Dye Sensitized Solar Cell. Scientific Reports, 2021. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-87123-z.
• Md Jahangir Alam, Sk Md Ali Zaker Shawon, Marzia Sultana, Md. Wasikur Rahman, Md. Maksudur Rahman Khan. Kinetic study of biodiesel production from soybean oil. Published in- 2014 POWER AND ENERGY SYSTEMS: TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE ENERGY, IEEE, 2014. DOI: 10.1109/PESTSE.2014.6805328.

WORK EXPERIENCES
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX
Department of Chemistry Graduate Teaching Assistant                                                                                             September 2020 – Present

• Conduct General Chemistry I & II (Lab), General Chemistry I (Lecture)

Photonics & Energy Research Lab. Graduate Research Assistant                                                                     September 2019 – August 2020

• Application of functional materials in the hybridization of nanogenerators for energy harvesting and sensory applications in Biomedical fields.
• Functional Textiles for antimicrobial, antiviral, and self-cleaning application.

Super Petrochemical (Pvt) Ltd, Chattogram, Bangladesh                                                                                December 2014 – August 2019
Process Engineer.

• Simulation and Design Evaluation, Process Operation, and Troubleshooting.
• Simulation and design evaluation of the 800 BPD Light Naphtha Hydrotreating Plant.
• Design and simulation for the 2000 BPD BTX (Benzene-Toluene-Xylene) recovery unit.
• Erection, Commissioning, and operation of the 4000 BPD Condensate Fractionation Unit.

Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission, Savar, Bangladesh                                                                                        January – June 2014
Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology - Research Assistant

• Conduct research on Mo-99/Tc-99m Radio-isotope Generator.