Ankit Shukla

I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I work in the area of theoretical and computational Spintronics under the guidance of Prof. Shaloo Rakheja.

Currently, I am studying the physics of spin-torque driven antiferromagnetic textures and dynamics for possible engineering applications in future generation magnetic memories and oscillators. Previously, I investigated the magnetization dynamics of a thin film ferromagnet and developed analytic models that should obviate expensive computation and ameliorate memory design challenges.

I have also investigated and studied electron and heat transport in Silicon Nanowire Transistor (SNWT). I built a simulator that can be used to study transport problems in both ballistic and diffusive limits using Non-Equilibrium Green Function (NEGF) as well as Boltzmann Transport Equation (BTE). SNWT is projected to be useful in future generation logic circuits and simulation tools like ours could provide insight into current-voltage characteristics useful for circuits design in the nanometer regime.

I grew up using pen and paper for "solving problems", learning how to code as part of different academic curriculums and hence I enjoy working at the intersection of theoretical/computational physics and engineering.

I love a bright sunny day and despise snow and rainfall.