Dr. Ashraf joined USF as an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering in Fall 2024. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. After graduation, he worked for Intel Corporation as a Process Technology Development Engineer and afterward performed postdoctoral research at Rutgers University. Most recently, he was an assistant professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), where he received NSF ERI, NSF MRI, and ACS PRF UNI awards. Additionally, due to his research contributions at UTRGV, was endowed with Fred W. and Frances H. Rusteberg Endowed Faculty Fellowship in Science and Technology, 2023. His research interconnects thermal science, surface science, and nanocomposites. He is an inventor of nanocarbon-based composite membranes for high-temperature membrane distillation. Dr. Ashraf utilized different nanomanufacturing techniques to prepare nanocomposites for sensing, separation, energy, and thermal management applications. Additionally, his research interest encompasses nanomaterial-based immunosensors, semiconductor wet processing, and microscale infrared thermographic analysis of nanocomposites and related manufacturing processes using advanced data analytics.