Afia Mubassira Islam completed her school and college at Viqarunnisa Noon School and College. She finished her B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the Department of EEE, University of Dhaka. Her interest in semiconductor devices has led her to major in Electronics. She has a wide range of research interests including Material Science, Two Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides, and renewable technologies. Besides research, she enjoys reading books (fiction), watching anime and mostly, teaching.

Journal Publications:

1. Emon, E. I. and Islam, A. M., and Bashar, Muhammad Shahriar and Ahmed, A. “Performance Evaluation of an Optically Transparent Microstrip Patch Antenna for 5G Applications Using ITO and Sodalime Glass Substrate.” Computers and Electrical Engineering, vol. 114, p. 109073, Jan. 2024, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compeleceng.2024.109073. 
2. S. D. Shovan, S. A. Ringky, A. M. Islam, S. Islam, and M. J. Rashid, ‘Maximizing the solar output power using hybrid (CdS/ZnSe) buffer for CIGS thin film solar cell’, Phys. Scr., Oct. 2023, doi: 10.1088/1402-4896/acff90. 
3. E.I. Emon, A.M. Islam, M.K. Sobayel, S. Islam, M. Akhtaruzzaman, N. Amin, A. Ahmed, M.J. Rashid, ‘A comprehensive photovoltaic study on tungsten disulfide (WS2) buffer layer based CdTe solar cell’, Heliyon, vol. 9, no. 3, p. e14438, Mar. 2023, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e14438 
4. A.M. Islam, S. Islam, K. Sobayel, E.I. Emon, F.A. Jhuma, M. Shahiduzzaman, Md. Akhtaruzzaman, N. Amin, M.J. Rashid, ‘Performance analysis of tungsten disulfide (WS2) as an alternative buffer layer for CdTe solar cell through numerical modeling’, Optical Materials, vol. 120, p. 111296, Oct. 2021, doi: 10.1016/j.optmat.2021.111296. 
5. A. M. Islam, E. I. Emon, and A. Ahmed, ‘A Metamaterial Loaded Microstrip Patch Antenna for Lower 5G U-NII Spectrum’, MMEP, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 556–562, Dec. 2020, doi: https://doi.org/10.18280/mmep.070407

Academic Appointments:

1. Jan 2023- Present: Lecturer, Department of CSE, BRAC University, Dhaka
2. Oct 2021- Jan 2023: Adjunct Faculty, Department of CSE, BRAC University, Dhaka
3. Nov 2021 - April 2021: Research Fellow, Centennial Research Grant, University of Dhaka, Dhaka
4. Jul 2019 - Dec 2019: Research Assistant, Institute of Fuel Research & Development, Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR), Dhaka
5. Jan 2021- Jun 2021: Research Fellow, Semiconductor Technology and Research Centre (STRC), University of Dhaka, Dhaka

i. Begum Rokeya Memorial Foundation Talentpool Scholarship 2022, University of Dhaka 

ii. National Science & Technology (NST) Fellowship 2021-2022, Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh