Dr. Salim Ahmed joined Memorial University of Newfoundland in February 2012 as an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. With a background in Chemical Engineering, He obtained a B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) before pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Process Control at the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Alberta.

Prior to joining Memorial University, Dr. Ahmed held positions as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta from 2006 to 2008 and as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Qatar University, Doha, Qatar from 2008 to 2012. In addition, he served as a lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering at BUET from 1997 to 2000.

Dr. Ahmed's current research focuses on the design of early warning systems for process industries. Supported by a Discovery Grant from NSERC and an IgniteR&D grant from the Research and Development Corporation of Newfoundland and Labrador (RDC), the alarm system design project aims to develop a risk-based alarm system. During his Ph.D. research, Dr. Ahmed specialized in system identification, particularly in the identification of continuous-time models from sampled data, and continues to work on this topic. Other research areas of interest include model validation and valve stiction.

Phone: 709-864-7652

Email: sahmed@mun.ca

Office: IIC-3026