Bio: Dr. Ariful Haque is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Ingram School of Engineering at Texas State University. He also holds an appointment in the Materials Science, Engineering & Commercialization program at Texas State. Prior to joining TXState, he worked as a Technology Development Mod. & Integr. Yield Engineer in the Logic Technology Development (LTD) division at Intel Corporation in the USA, where he aided in developing next-generation semiconductor process technology. Before that, he earned a dual Ph.D. in both “Electrical Engineering” and “Materials Science & Engineering” from North Carolina State University.
Outside of academic work, Dr. Haque enjoys volunteering in STEM outreach, exploring nature through travel, and finding balance through gardening and cooking—activities that reflect both creativity and systems thinking. He also stays active by running and playing soccer and cricket.
Hobby: Cricket, Soccer, Tennis
Email: ahaque@txstate.edu
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Achievements
- Award/Honor Recipient: 2024-25 Texas State University Alpha Chi Honor Society Favorite Professor. 2024
Grants
2025
- Droopad, Ravindranath (Principal), Haque, Ariful (Co-Principal), Scolfaro, Luisa M (Co-Principal), Valles Molina, Damian (Co-Principal). Integration of Diamond with Ultrawide Bandgap Oxides: Growth, Characterization, and Modeling with Artificial Intelligence, Army Research Office, Federal, $1000000. (Submitted: November 2023, Funded: April 2025 – March 2029). Grant.
- Haque, Ariful (Principal), Valles Molina, Damian (Co-Principal). Development of Pulsed Laser Annealing for Enhanced Doping and Phase Purity in Synthetic Diamonds for Advanced Electronic and Energy Applications, ORSP, Texas State University, $16000. (Submitted: October 2024, Funded: January 2025 – May 2026). Grant.
2024
- Haque, Ariful (Principal). ERI: Integration of Diamond with Ga2O3 for High Performance Applications, National Science Foundation, Federal, $199997. (Submitted: September 16, 2023, Funded: 2024 – 2026). Grant.
- Haque, Ariful, Droopad, Ravindranath, Holtz, Mark W, Piner, Edwin L, Geerts, Wilhelmus J, Chen, Yihong, Hudnall, Todd W, Wistey, Mark A, Miyahara, Yoichi, Smith, Casey Eben, Mahato, Dip Narayan, Rastogi, Shiva Kumar, Kim, Namwon. Acquisition of a state-of-the-art Photoluminescence Spectrometer for Materials Characterization in Research and Education, Department of Defense, Federal, $434519. (Submitted: September 2023, Funded: 2024 – 2025). Grant.
- Miyahara, Yoichi (Principal), Satchell, Nathan David (Co-Principal), Holtz, Mark W (Co-Principal), Kim, Namwon (Co-Principal), Martin, Benjamin (Co-Principal), Chen, Yihong (Supporting), Theodoropoulou, Nikoleta (Supporting), Geerts, Wilhelmus J (Supporting), Piner, Edwin L (Supporting), Haque, Ariful (Supporting), Droopad, Ravindranath (Supporting), Mahato, Dip Narayan (Supporting), Smith, Casey Eben (Supporting). MRI: Track 1 Acquisition of state-of-the-art lithography system for micro/nanometer scale device fabrication in research and education, National Science Foundation, Federal, $569780. (Submitted: November 14, 2023, Funded: September 1, 2024 – August 31, 2027). Grant.
- Hudnall, Todd W (Principal), Kerwin, Sean Michael (Co-Principal), Peterson, Ryan Loren (Co-Principal), Shi, Xijun (Co-Principal), Schilter, David (Co-Principal), Haque, Ariful (Supporting), Droopad, Ravindranath (Supporting), Chen, Yihong (Supporting), Brittain, Bill (Supporting), Geerts, Wilhelmus J (Supporting), Kornienko, Alexander Vladimir (Supporting). MRI: Acquisition of a Single Crystal X-ray Diffractometer to Advance Structural Analysis in Chemical, Biochemical, and Material Sciences at Texas State University, National Science Foundation, Federal, $485000. (Submitted: November 15, 2023, Funded: August 15, 2024 – July 31, 2027). Grant.
- Droopad, Ravindranath (Principal), Jimenez, Jesus (Co-Principal), Haque, Ariful (Co-Principal), Londa, Michelle (Co-Principal). Texas Institute for Electronics (TIE) Next-Generation Microelectronics Manufacturing (NGMM) Center (TNC), DARPA, Federal, $1625000. (Funded: July 2024 – July 2029). Grant.
2023
- Chen, Yihong (Principal), Haque, Ariful (Co-Principal). Run to R1 Postdoctoral Catalyst program, Texas State University, $128000. (Funded: September 1, 2023 – August 31, 2025). Grant.
- Haque, Ariful, Droopad, Ravindranath. Q-carbon Supercapacitors: Towards Durable, Safe, and Biocompatible Energy Storage Devices, ORSP, Texas State University, $16000. (Submitted: October 2022, Funded: January 2023 – May 2024). Grant.
2022
- Haque, Ariful (Principal). Novel carbon nanostructures for enhanced electron field emission, ORSP, Texas State University, $15000. (Funded: June 2022). Grant.