Contact Information

Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) BRAC University 66 Mohakhali C/A Dhaka 1212 Bangladesh

Tel: +88-02-8824051 Ext. 4019 Fax: 880-2-8810383 e-mail: mumit@bracu.ac.bd           khan@mumit.org

Program Affiliations

• Computer Science and Engineering (CSE)

Education

 

1998 - 2003	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Madison, WI
Ph.D. Software Engineering in Computational Sciences
Ph.D. Thesis title: Virtual Lithography Laboratory: A Software Framework for Physics-Based Modeling and Simulation.

 

1989 - 1991	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Madison, WI
M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering
M.S. Thesis title: Object-oriented Integration of Process Modeling Tools in X-ray Lithography.

 

1985 - 1988	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Madison, WI
B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Dean's Honor List - each semester

• Graduated with Distinction

Research Areas

• Natural Language Processing: Development of Natural Language Processing modules for Bangla; development of Bangla lexicon, morphological analyzer, spelling checker, optical character recognition software.

• Nanolithography: Physical model development of x-ray, electron and extreme ultraviolet lithographic processes, from source generation to pattern transfer.

• Computational Sciences: Computational methods in physics and engineering, wavefront engineering, multi-grid methods, optimization techniques for complex systems, computational geometry, visualization methods for large datasets, optical and x-ray optical ray tracing, solid geometry for CAD applications.

• Parallel Algorithms: Development of parallel algorithms, numerical in particular.

• Software Engineering: Development and application of software engineering methodologies to physical modeling and simulation, large software framework design, distributed and parallel processing, object-oriented design methodologies.

Professional Experience

2008 - Present BRAC University Dhaka, Bangladesh
Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Head, Center for Research on Bangla Language Processing

2006 - Present UW Center for Nano-Technology Madison, WI
Honorary Fellow

2004 -  Present BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Head, Center for Research on Bangla Language Processing

2006 - Present UW Center for Nano-Technology, Madison, WI
Honorary Fellow

2003 - 2004 BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering

1995 - 2003 Center for Nano-Technology, Madison, WI
Leader, Modeling and Simulation (currently on leave of absence)

• Lead the development of physical models for nano- and bio-technology, software framework and architecture.
  http://www.nanotech.wisc.edu/research/
• Technology transfer to member companies - intellectual property as well as training of scientists and engineers.
  http://www.nanotech.wisc.edu/review/2002/
• Supervise student and staff researchers, and manage computing facilities.

1991 - 1995 Center for X-ray Lithography, Madison, WI
Member of the Research Staff

• Develop and maintain CXrL Toolset, a suite of software tools to model, simulate and optimize x-ray lithography process.
  http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/software/Toolset/toolset.html
• Design and develop EXCON, an object-oriented simulation framework for managing large experiments. EXCON provides a visual language for creating a network of objects that attach to a software bus and communicate via ports; these objects are then distributed over a wide area network.
  http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/software/Toolset/4excon.fm.html
• Lead development of SHADOW, a de-facto standard x-ray optical design tool used by the Synchrotron Radiation community.
  http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/software/Toolset/toolset.html
• Teach programming languages (C, C++, Tcl/Tk, Python, Java) and idioms.

Invited Talks

1. Advances in Lithography for Nanostructures, M. Khan, G. Han, and F. Cerrina, Midwest Microscopy and Microanalysis Society Meeting, Madison, WI, October 2002.
2. Extendibility of proximity XRL: roadmap for 35 nm and beyond, M. Khan and F. Cerrina, MRS 2001 Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, November 2001.
3. SHADOW: Current Status, M. Khan, S. Singh-Gasson, and F. Cerrina, Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation (invited poster), Stanford, CA, September 1999.
4. Advances in ray tracing of x-ray optical elements, M. Khan, S. Singh-Gasson, and F. Cerrina, SPIE Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, September 1999.
5. SHADOW: Design Tool for X-ray Optics, M. Khan and F. Cerrina, Workshop on Neutron Scattering Instrument Design, LBL, Berkeley, CA, September 1996.
6. XRL Modeling, M. Khan, S. B. Bollepalli and F. Cerrina, NTT, Atsugi, Japan, August 1996.
7. X-ray Lithography Process Modeling, M. Khan and F. Cerrina, Institute for System Research (invited seminar), University of Maryland, College Park, June 1996.
8. XRL Exposure Window Optimization Using CXrL Toolset, M. Khan and F. Cerrina, IEEE Lithography Simulation Workshop, Quebec City, Canada, September 1994.
9. Issues in Modeling Tool Integration, M. Khan and F. Cerrina, SEMATECH Litho WorkBench Review Meeting, Austin, Texas, March 1993.
10. SHADOW on UNIX, M. Khan, C. Welnak and F. Cerrina, European Synchrotron Research Facility, Grenoble, France, January 1991.

Publications

1. A High Performance Domain Specific OCR for Bangla Script, Md. Abul Hasnat, S. M. Murtoza Habib and Mumit Khan, Proc. ICS2E, (2007).

2. Isolated and Continuous Bangla Speech Recognition Implementation, Performance and application perspective, Md. Abul Hasnat, Jabir Mowla and Mumit Khan, Proc. Statistical Natural Language Processing, Pattaya, Thailand, December, (2007).

3. Building a Foundation of HPSG-based Treebank on Bangla Language for Probabilistic Analysis, Altaf Mahmud and Mumit Khan, Proc. 10th ICCIT, Dhaka, December, (2007).

4. A Light Weight Stemmer for Bengali and Its Use in Spelling Checker, Md. Zahurul Islam, Md. Nizam Uddin and Mumit Khan, Proc. 1st Intl. Conf. on Digital Comm. and Computer Applications (DCCA 2007), Amman, Jordan, March 19-23, 2007.

5. Segmentation free Bangla OCR using HMM: Training and Recognition, Md Abul Hasnat, S M Murtoza Habib and Mumit Khan, Proc. 1st Intl. Conf. on Digital Comm. and Computer Applications (DCCA 2007), Amman, Jordan, March 19-23, 2007.

6. Text To Speech for Bangla Language using Festival, Firoj Alam and Mumit Khan, Proc. 1st Intl. Conf. on Digital Comm. and Computer Applications (DCCA 2007), Amman,
   Jordan, March 19-23, 2007.

7. Error-tolerant Finite-state Recognizer and String Pattern Similarity Based Spell-Checker for Bengali, M. Asadullah, M. Z. Islam, and M. Khan, Proc. ICON 2007 (accepted for publication), (2007).

8. Extreme Ultraviolet Holographic Lithography: Initial Results, Y. Cheng, A. Isoyan, J. Wallace, M. Khan, and F. Cerrina, Applied Physics Letters, (in press), (2006). [Peer reviewed]

9. Infrastructure for Bangla Information retrieval in the context of ICT for Development, N. Haque, Md. H. Ali, M. Khan, and M. S. Abdullah, Proc. ICS2E, (accepted for publication), (2006).

10. Comparison of different POS Tagging Techniques (n-gram, HMM and Brill's tagger) for Bangla, F. Hasan, N. UzZaman, and M. Khan, Proc. ICS2E, (accepted for publication), (2006).

11. JKimmo: A Multilingual Computational Morphology Framework for PC-KIMMO, M. Z. Islam and M. Khan, Proc. 9th ICCIT, (accepted for publication), (2006).

12. Bangla Text Input and Rendering Support for Short Message Service on Mobile Devices, T. Rownok, M. Z. Islam, and M. Khan, Proc. 9th ICCIT, (accepted for publication), (2006).

13. Minimally Segmenting High Performance Bangla OCR using Kohonen Network, A. M. S. Shatil and M. Khan, Proc. 9th ICCIT, (accepted for publication), (2006).

14. Skew correction of Bangla script using Radon Transform, M. Habib, N. Noor and M. Khan, Proc. 9th ICCIT, (accepted for publication), (2006).

15. N-gram based Statistical Grammar Checker for Bangla and English, M. J. Alam, N. UzZaman, and M. Khan, Proc. 9th ICCIT, (accepted for publication), (2006).

16. History (forward n-gram) or Future (backward n-gram)? Which model to consider for n-gram analysis in Bangla?, N. Khan, M. T. Habib, M. J. Alam, R. Rahman, N. UzZaman, and M. Khan, Proc. 9th ICCIT, (accepted for publication), (2006).

17. Rule based Automated Pronunciation Generator, A. Mosaddeque, N. UzZaman, and M. Khan, Proc. 9th ICCIT, (accepted for publication), (2006).

18. Analysis of n-gram based text categorization for Bangla in a newspaper corpus, M. Mansur, N. UzZaman, and M. Khan, Proc. 9th ICCIT, (accepted for publication), (2006).

19. Analysis and Observations From a Bangla news corpus, Y. Arafat, Md. Z. Islam, N. UzZaman, and M. Khan, Proc. 9th ICCIT, (accepted for publication), (2006).

20. Developing a Computational Grammar for Bengali using the HPSG Formalism, N. Khan and M. Khan, Proc. 9th ICCIT, (accepted for publication), (2006).

21. GIS Based Real Time Traveler Information System: An Efficient Approach to Minimize Travel Time Using Available Media, A. Hasnat, M. M. Haque, and M. Khan, Proc. 9th ICCIT, (accepted for publication), (2006).

22. A Comprehensive Bangla Spelling Checker, N. UzZman and M. Khan, Proc. Intl. Conference on Computer Processing of Bangla (ICCPB 2006), Dhaka, Bangladesh, February, (2006).

23. A Complete English-to-Bangla Transliteration Scheme, N. UzZman and M. Khan, Proc. Intl. Conference on Computer Processing of Bangla (ICCPB 2006), Dhaka, Bangladesh, February, (2006).

24. Collaborative Lexicon Development for Bangla, A. I. Sarkar, D. S. H. Pavel, and M. Khan, Proc. Intl. Conference on Computer Processing of Bangla (ICCPB 2006), Dhaka, Bangladesh, February, (2006).

25. A Proposed Automated Extraction Procedure of Bangla Text for Corpus Creation in Unicode, D. S. H. Pavel, A. I. Sarkar, and M. Khan, Proc. Intl. Conference on Computer Processing of Bangla (ICCPB 2006), Dhaka, Bangladesh, February, (2006).

26. Teaching Compiler Development to Undergraduates Using a Template Based Approach, Md. Zahurul Islam and M. Khan, Proc. 8th ICCIT, Gazipur, Bangladesh, (2005).

27. Morphological Analysis of Inflectional Compound Words in Bangl, Sajib Dasgupta, Naira Khan, and M. Khan, Proc 8th ICCIT, Gazipur, Bangladesh, (2005).

28. T12: An Advanced Text Input System With Phonetic Support For Mobile Devices, N. UzZaman and M. Khan, to be presented at IEE Mobility Conference 2005, Guangzhou, China, November, (2005).

29. A Double Metaphone Encoding for Bangla and its Application to Spelling Checker, N. UzZaman and M. Khan, to be presented at IEEE NLP-KE 2005, Wuhan, China, October, (2005).

30. 9. Local Language Computing in Bangladesh: Status and Challenges, M. Khan, 2nd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP-05), Jeju Islan, Korea, October, (2005).

31. A Double Metaphone Encoding for Approximate Name Searching and Matching in Bangla, N. UzZaman and M. Khan, Proc. 4th Intl IASTED Conf on Computational Intelligence, Calgary, Canada, July, (2005).

32. Parsing Bangla with LFG: An Introduction, M. N. Haque and M. Khan, BRAC University Journal, Vol 2, No. 1, (2005). [Peer reviewed]

33. Morphological Parsing of Bangla Words using PC-KIMMO, S. Dasgupta and M. Khan, Proc. 7th ICCIT, (2004).

34. Feature Unification for Morphological Parsing in Bangla, S. Dasgupta and M. Khan, Proc. 7th ICCIT, (2004).

35. A Bangla Phonetic Encoding for Better Spelling Suggestions, N. UzZaman and M. Khan, Proc. 7th ICCIT, (2004).

36. Modeling Clear Phase-Mask Materials for Sub-50 nm X-Ray Application, D. Malueg, M. Khan, F. Cerrina, and J. W. Taylor, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., 43(6B), (2004). [Peer reviewed]

37. Modeling for sub-50-nm x-ray application with phase masks, J. W. Taylor, D. H. Malueg, F. Cerrina, M. Khan and D. Thielman, Proc. SPIE, 5374, 311 (2004).

38. Focusing X-Ray Microlenses, M. Khan, D. Amy, M. Feldman, Q. Leonard, F. Cerrina, J. Murakowski and D. Prather, J. Vac. Sci. Technol., in press (2003). [Peer reviewed]

39. Stochastic modeling of high energy lithographies, G. Han, M. Khan and F. Cerrina, J. Vac. Sci. Technol., B 21(6), (2003). [Peer reviewed]

40. A comment on a new ray-tracing program RIGTRACE for X-ray optical systems, L. Alianelli, M. Sanchez del Rio, M. Khan and F. Cerrina, [J. Synchrotron Rad. (2001), 8, 1047-1050], J. Synchrotron Rad., 10, 191 (2003). [Peer reviewed]

41. A Comprehensive Model of Electron Energy Deposition, G. Han, M. Khan, Y. Fang, and F. Cerrina, J. Vac. Sci. Technol., B 20, (2002). [Peer reviewed]

42. Can PXL print 35 nm? Yes., M. Khan, G. Han, G. Tsvid, T. Kitayama, J. Maldonado, and F. Cerrina, J. Vac. Sci. Technol., B 19(6), (2001). [Peer reviewed]

43. Technique for 25 nm X-ray Nanolithography, E. Toyota, T. Hori, M. Khan and F. Cerrina, J. Vac. Sci. Technol., B 19(6), (2001). [Peer reviewed]

44. Focusing x-ray masks for printing very narrow features, M. Feldman, M. Khan and F. Cerrina, J. Vac. Sci. Technol., B 19(6), (2001). [Peer reviewed]

45. New results in high energy proximity x-ray lithography, M. Khan, G. Han, J. Maldonado, and F. Cerrina, Proc. SPIE, 4343, 176 (2001).

46. Processing latitude study on x-ray phase-shifting masks, L. Yang, M. Khan, J. W. Taylor, Y. Vladimirsky, and N. Dandekar, Proc. SPIE, 3997, 530 (2000).

47. Image formation in EUV lithography: multilayer and resist properties, F. Cerrina, S. Bollepalli, M. Khan, H. Solak, W. Li, and D. He, Microelectronic Engineering, 53, (2000). [Peer reviewed]

48. Extension of x-ray lithography to 50 nm with a harder spectrum, M. Khan, G. Han, S. B. Bollepalli, and F. Cerrina, J. Vac. Sci. Technol., B 17(6), (1999). [Peer reviewed]

49. Pattern resolution of an x-ray beamline with a wide exposure field, M. Khan, F. Cerrina, and E. Toyota, J. Vac. Sci. Technol., B 17(6), (1999). [Peer reviewed]

50. Image formation in extreme ultraviolet lithography and numerical aperture effects, S. B. Bollepalli, M. Khan, and F. Cerrina, J. Vac. Sci. Technol., B 17(6), (1999). [Peer reviewed]

51. X-ray mask fabrication at CXrL, Q. J. Leonard, J. Bansel, L. Yang, O. Vladimirsky, B. S. Bollepalli, M. Khan, Y. Vladimirsky, F. Cerrina, J. W. Taylor, K. Simon, L. C. Rathbun, and R. C. Tiberio, Proc. SPIE, 3676, 56 (1999).

52. Imaging properties of the extreme ultraviolet mask, S.B. Bollepalli, M. Khan, and F. Cerrina, J. Vac. Sci. Technol., B 16, (1998). [Peer reviewed]

53. A Semi-Empirical Resist Dissolution Model For Sub-Micron Lithographies, M. Khan, S.B. Bollepalli, and F. Cerrina, Proc. MSM, 1, 41 (1998).

54. Modeling Image Formation In Layered Structures: Application to X-ray Lithography, S. B. Bollepalli, M. Khan, and F. Cerrina, Proc. MSM, 1, 53 (1998).

55. Parameter Extraction with Neural Networks, L. Cazzanti, M. Khan, and F. Cerrina, Proc. SPIE, 3332, 654 (1998).

56. Modeling Image Formation Using Point Sources, S. B. Bollepalli, M. Khan, and F. Cerrina, Proc. SPIE, 3331, 388 (1998).

57. Investigation of Mask Pattern Proximity Correction to Reduce Image Shortening in X-Ray Lithography, Scott Hector, Victor Pol, Mumit Khan, Srinivas Bollepalli and Franco Cerrina, Microelectronic Engineering, 41-42, 271-274, (1998). [Peer reviewed]

58. The Complete Modeling Of The Image Formation In X-ray Lithography, S. B. Bollepalli, M. Khan, and F. Cerrina, Proc. XEL (1998).

59. Revisiting Phase Shifting Masks in X-ray Lithography, M. Khan, S. Bollepalli and F. Cerrina, J. Vac. Sci. Technol., B15(6), Nov/Dec, 2255 (1997). [Peer reviewed]

60. Automatic Mask Generation in X-ray Lithography, S. Bollepalli, M. Khan and F. Cerrina, J. Vac. Sci. Technol., B15(6), Nov/Dec 2238 (1997). [Peer reviewed]

61. X-ray Lithography for <= 100 nm ground rules in complex patterns, S. D. Hector, M. Khan, et al., J. Vac. Sci. Technol., B 15(6), Nov/Dec, 2517 (1997). [Peer reviewed]

62. Topography Description Model for 3D exposure simulation, M. Khan, S. Bollepalli and F. Cerrina, Proc. SPIE, 3051, 588 (1997).

63. Evaluation of aerial image in XRL, M. Yi, M. Khan, et al., Proc. SPIE, 3048, 126 (1997).

64. X-ray phase-mask: Nanostructures, Z. Chen, Q. Leonard, M. Khan and F. Cerrina, Proc. SPIE, 3048, 183 (1997).

65. Simulation of x-ray mask defect printability, B. S. Bollepalli, S. D. Hector, J. R. Maldonado, J. A. Leavey, F. Cerrina, and M. Khan, Proc. SPIE, 3048, 155 (1997).

66. Extendibility of x-ray lithography to <= 130 nm ground rules in complex integrated circuit patterns, S. D. Hector, M. Khan, et al., J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 14(6), Nov/Dec (1996). [Peer reviewed]

67. An Updated Model for X-ray Lithography, M. Khan, L. Mohammad, L. Ocola, J Xiao and F. Cerrina, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B6(12), Nov/Dec (1994). [Peer reviewed]

68. Modeling and simulation of a positive chemically amplified photoresist for x-ray lithography, A.A. Krasnoperova, M. Khan, S. Rhyner, J. W. Taylor, Y.Zhu, F. Cerrina, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B6(12), Nov/Dec (1994). [Peer reviewed]

69. Modeling image formation: application to mask optimization, J. Xiao, M. Khan, R. Nachman, J. Wallace, and F. Cerrina, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B12(6), Nov/Dec (1994). [Peer reviewed]

70. Spectral Effects on X-ray Lithography, W. Waldo, A. Krasnoperova, M. Khan, C. Capasso, J. W. Taylor, F. Cerrina, Proc SPIE, 2194, 129 (1994).

71. Comparative study of x-ray lithography process optimization using theoretical and empirical tools, W. Waldo, A. Krasnoperova, M. Khan, C. Capasso, J. W. Taylor, F. Cerrina, Proc. SPIE, 2194, 83 (1994).

72. TRANSMIT: A beamline modeling program, F. Cerrina, F. Baszler, S. Turner, and M. Khan, Microelectronic Engineering, 21, 103 (1993). [Peer reviewed]

73. Image formation in x-ray lithography: process optimization, F. Cerrina, J.Z.Y Guo, S. Turner, L. Ocola, M. Khan, and P. Anderson, Microelectronic Engineering, 17, 135 (1992). [Peer reviewed]

74. Recent Developments in SHADOW, C. Welnak, P. Anderson, M. Khan, S. Singh, and F. Cerrina, Rev. Sci. Instrum., 63, 865-868 (1992). [Peer reviewed]

75. X-ray dose density: a new radiation damage modeling tool, F. Baszler, M. Khan, F. Cerrina, Proc. SPIE, 1671, 451 (1992).

76. Effects of mirror surface roughness on exposure uniformity in synchrotron x-ray lithography, G.M. Wells, R. Nachman, C. Welnak, S. Singh, J. Guo, M. Khan, S. Turner, F. Cerrina, Y. Vladimirsky, and J. Maldonado, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 9, 3227-331 (1991). [Peer reviewed]

77. EXCON: a graphics based experiment control manager, M. Khan, P. Anderson, and F. Cerrina, Proc. SPIE, 1465, 315 (1991).

78. Aerial image formation in synchrotron radiation-based x-ray lithography: the whole picture, J.Z.Y. Guo, G. Chen, M. Khan, P. Anderson, and F. Cerrina, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 8, 1537 (1990). [Peer reviewed]

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