Dr. Md. Jarez Miah

I received the B.Sc. degree in eletrical and electronic engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 2009, the M.Sc. degree in communications technology from Ulm University, Germany, in 2012 and the PhD degree in engineering from Technical University of Berlin (TUB), Germany, in 2017.

My M.Sc. and Doctoral theses dealt with design, fabrication and characterization of various types of semiconductor lasers (SLs). We developed polarization-stable and single-mode vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers for atomic clock applications during my master thesis. During my doctoral research, we developed novel high-power and high-brightness edge-emitting SLs. We had successfully realized two different types of lasers, namely PBC (PBC: photonic band crystal) and HiBBEE (HiBBEE: high-brightness vertical broad-area edge-emitting) lasers.

From 2018 to 2021, I worked as a R&D engineer at TRUMPF Laser GmbH, and a postdoctoral researcher at Ferdinand-Braun-Institute gGmbH, Germany, where I developed high performance semiconductor diode lasers and kW-class laser bars. These kW-class lasers are in high demand for many advanced applications, e.g. material processing, medicine etc. Before joining TRUMPF in 2018, I was also employed as a senior semiconductor engineer at VI Systems GmbH and a guest scientist at PBC lasers GmbH, Germany.

Currently, I am serving as an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Information and Communication Technology (IICT) at BUET. I have also been appointed an Associated Editor of IEEE Photonics Journal in 2022. I authored/co-authored more than 25 peer-reviewd Journals and Conference proceedings. My research interests include artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning algorithms, image processing, computer vision, semiconductor lasers.