Ir. Dr. Ahmad Syahrin Idris B. Eng (Hons), M. Phil, Dr. Eng.
Assistant Professor , Electrical and Electronic Engineering Lecturer
Ir. Dr. Ahmad Syahrin Idris is an Electrical and Electronic Engineering Lecturer at the University of Southampton Malaysia. Ir. Dr. Ahmad Syahrin Idris joined the University of Southampton Malaysia as a Lecturer in 2019 after completing his PhD degree in Opto-electronics at Kyushu University, Japan.
His research interest encompasses fabrication and characterization of new materials for optical waveguides for future photonic integrated circuits and design-for-test methodologies (DFT) for integrated circuits. He was also a research staff at the University of Sheffield where he developed fabrication recipes and characterization of III-V and II-IV materials for photodetector applications. He has extensive industrial experience where he was a Product Development Engineer specializing in structural DFT for Intel and was a Senior Test Development Engineer at Freescale Semiconductor developing test solutions for automotive and industrial microcontrollers. Currently, he is teaching Electrical Materials and Fields (ELEC1206) and Electromagnetism for Electrical and Electronic Engineering (ELEC2219). Ir. Dr. Ahmad Syahrin Idris is also a Professional Engineer registered with the Board of Engineers Malaysia and the Institute of Engineers Malaysia.