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Biofunctionalized Nano-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (BioNEMS) Laboratory
Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics
Pennsylvania State University
N-328 Millennium Sciences Complex
University Park, PA 16802-6812

Tel: +1-717-559-0745
Fax: 1-814-865-9974
Email: aan141@psu.edu

• Microfluidic Flow Cytometry Device for diaagnostics
  
• Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)
  
• Micro / Nano Fabrication (using E-beam lithography)
  
• Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD-ESI software)
  
• Microfluidics
  
• BioNEMS
  

• SolidWorks Designing
  

• Graduate student at BioNEMS lab in the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Pennsylvania State University. (Advisor: Prof. Tony Jun Huang)
  
• Masters of Research in Functionalized Advanced Materials Engineering (FAME), a European Union split program, spending first year at Institut Nationale polytechnique de Grenoble, France and seconds year at University of Augsburg, Germany. (Advisors: Prof. Dr. Achim Wixforth, Dr. Hubert Krenner, Dr. Helmut Karl)
  
• BSc in Metallurgy and Materials Engineering from Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Pakistan (Advisors: Prof. Dr. Fazal Ahmed Khalid, Prof. Dr. Peter Humphery Draper)
  

• Development of electrical contacts and electrical characterization of Gallium Nitride Nanowires (Augsburg University, Germany).
• Real-time electrical and mechanical characterization of thin films debonding for the study of interface properties in thin films (SIMAP Lab, Grenoble, France).
• Growth of Bulk AlN layer by HTCVD process at 1700 C on silicon carbide substrate in a cold wall chamber(INP Grenoble, France ).
• Brittle crack susceptibility of low temperature separator vessel material (GIK Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Pakistan)

• First place award at Graduate Research Symposium (ESM Today), Pennsylvania State University, 2012.
• Outstanding Journal club award (Spring 2012) bestowed by Prof. Tony Jun Huang).
• Third place award at Graduate Research Symposium (ESM Today), Pennsylvania State University, 2011.
• Selected as FAME Master representative by Erasmus Mundus Association (EMA) for 2010.
• Third place award at Graduate Research Symposium (ESM Today), Pennsylvania State University, 2010.
• Fulbright Scholarship (by U.S. Department of States) to pursue doctoral studies in the U.S. (present)
• Erasmus Mundus Scholarship (European Union's most prestigious) to pursue hybrid master program in Europe (France y1 and Germany y2).
• On Dean’s honor list in four semesters during Bachelors.
• Gold Medal conferred by the president of Pakistan for outstanding performance in academics.
• First position for highest academic achievement in the faculty in Bachelors.

• Worked at SIMAP Lab, Grenoble, France, (April - July 2007) as an intern.
• Worked (July 2006 – April 2007) as Materials Engineer at Saudi Oger Ltd, Saudi Arabia.
• Internship at MOL Pakistan, Gurguri Gas Plant. ( 2006)
• Internship at Pakistan Tobacco Company (PTC), Akora plant (2004)
• Internship at Siemens, Islamabad (2004)
• Internship National Centre for Non-destructive Testing (NCNDT), Islamabad (2003)

• Yuchao Chen, Xiaoyun Ding, Steven Sz-Chin Lin, Shikuan Yang, Po-Hsun Huang, Nitesh Nama, Yanhui Zhao, Ahmad Ahsan Nawaz, Feng Guo, Wei Wang, Yeyi Gu, Thomas E Mallouk, and Tony Jun Huang, Tunable Nanowire Patterning Using Standing Surface Acoustic Waves, ACS Nano, accepted, 2013.
• Ahmad Ahsan Nawaz, Xiaole Mao, Zackary S. Stratton, and Tony Jun Huang, Unconventional Microfluidics: Expanding the Discipline, Lab on a Chip, Vol. 13, pp. 1457-1463, 2013.
• Feng Guo, Michael Ian Lapsley, Ahmad Ahsan Nawaz, Yanhui Zhao, Sz-Chin Lin, Yuchao Chen, Shikuan Yang, Xing-Zhong Zhao, and Tony Jun Huang, A Droplet-based, Optofluidic Device for High-throughput, Quantitative Bioanalysis, Analytical Chemistry,Vol. 84, pp. 10745−10749, 2012.
• Yuliang Xie, Daniel Ahmed,Michael Lapsley, Steven Sz-Chin Lin, Ahsan Ahmad Nawaz, Lin Wang, Tony Jun Huang, Single-shot characterization of enzymatic reaction constants Km and kcat by an acoustic-driven, bubble-based fast micromixer, Analytical Chemistry , accepted, 2012.
• Xiaole Mao*, Ahmad Ahsan Nawaz*, Sz-Chin Steven Lin, Michael Ian Lapsley, Yanhui Zhao, J. Philip McCoy, Wafik S. El-Deiry, and Tony Jun Huang, An Integrated, Multi-parametric Flow Cytometry Chip using “Microfluidic Drifting” Based Three-dimensional (3D) Hydrodynamic Focusing, Biomicrofluidics, Vol. 6, pp. 024113, 2012.(* equal contribution author)
• Yanhui Zhao, Thomas Walker, Yue Bing Zheng, Sz-Chin Steven Lin, Ahmad Ahsan Nawaz, Brian Kiraly, Jason Scott, and Tony Jun Huang, Mechanically Tuning the Localized Surface Plasmon Resonances of Gold Nanostructure Arrays, ASME Journal of Nanotechnology in Engineering and Medicine, accepted, 2012.
• Yanhui Zhao, Ahmad Ahsan Nawaz, Sz-Chin Steven Lin, Qingzhen Hao, Brian Kiraly, and Tony Jun Huang, Nanoscale super-resolution imaging via metal-dielectric metamaterial lens system, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., accepted, 2011
• Joseph S.T. Smalley, Yanhui Zhao, Ahmad Ahsan Nawaz, Qingzhen Hao, Yi Ma,Iam-Choon Khoo, and Tony Jun Huang, High contrast modulation of plasmonic signals using nanoscale dual-frequency liquid crystals, Optics Express, Vol. 19, pp. 15265-15274, 2011
• Yanhui Zhao, Sz-Chin Steven Lin, Ahmad Ahsan Nawaz, Brian Kiraly, Qingzhen Hao, Yanjun Liu and Tony Jun Huang, Beam bending via plasmonic lenses, Optics Express 18, 23458 (2010)
• Xiaole Mao, Zackary I. Stratton, Ahmad Ahsan Nawaz, Sz-Chin Steven Lin, and Tony Jun Huang, Optofluidic Tunable Microlens by Manipulating the Liquid Meniscus Using a Flared Microfluidic Structure, Biomicrofluidics 4, 043007 (2010).

• Ahmad Ahsan Nawaz, Xiaole Mao, Yanhui Zhao, Sz-Chin Steven Lin, and Tony J. Huang, Particle pushing via Liquid Gradient Refractive Index (L-GRIN) lens, in Bio-Optics: Design and Application, OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optical Society of America, 2011), paper BWB5.
• Yanhui Zhao, Ahmad Ahsan. Nawaz, and Tony J. Huang, Enhanced Bio-sensing by Mechanically Stretching Active Plasmonic PDMS Device, in Bio-Optics: Design and Application, OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optical Society of America, 2011), paper JTuA4.