Ali Shakouri, Ph.D.

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Associate Dean for Research and Innovation, Purdue University

Ali Shakouri is a professor of electrical and computer engineering and associate dean of research and innovation at Purdue College of Engineering. He received his engineering degree in 1990 from Telecom Paris, France, and his Ph.D. in 1995 from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, US. He was a faculty at the University of California in Santa Cruz before moving to Purdue in 2011 to lead the Birck Nanotechnology Center for ten years. He has worked extensively in nanoscale heat transport and electrothermal energy conversion. His group has developed and commercialized a novel lock-in imaging technique to obtain thermal maps of integrated circuits. He oversaw Purdue-Wabash Heartland Innovation Network (WHIN) partnership, exploring a living laboratory of Internet of Things (IoT) testbeds in advanced manufacturing and digital agriculture in the ten counties in northeast Indiana. He currently leads an NSF Future Manufacturing project focused on deploying artificial intelligence techniques in small and medium manufacturers.