Mehdi Anwar (S'86-M'88-SM99) received the B.S. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 1982 from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh. He received the MS in Electrical Engineering from the same institution in 1984. The topic of his research was antennae in anisotropic plasmas. He received the Ph.D. degree in 1988 from Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY in modeling of quantum size effect devices, namely resonant tunneling diodes (RTDs) and HEMTs. As a graduate student, he also worked on the design and fabrication of FETs on as-grown Poly-Si at the SubMicron Facility, Cornell University.

Dr. Anwar served as a Lecturer at BUET from 1982-84. He joined the University of Connecticut, Storrs, in 1988 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to the rank of Professor in 1999. Since June 1999, he has also been serving as the interim Head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Dr. Anwar has authored or co-authored over 120 journal and conference publications and has given over ten invited talks in areas that include HEMTs, HBT, RTDs and quantum well IR photo detectors, etc., with special emphasis on the noise performance of devices. His research group, in the RF Microelectronics and Noise Laboratory, is currently involved in the study of transport in short heterostructures and antimony based HEMTs operating above 300GHz. He is also leading the effort in modeling GaN-based high power HEMTs and HBTs. In addition, he is active in research in the areas of CMOS based Class E amplifiers, transport dynamics and noise in RTDs and 1D structures. He was an Air Force Office of Scientific Research Summer Fellow in 1996 and 1997. He is the author of Test Yourself: Electric Circuits, published by Test Yourself Books.

He has served on the organizing committee of the 9th and 10th International Conference of Mathematical and Computer Modeling and is on the International Advisory Committee of IEEE International Conference of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Dhaka, Bangladesh.