He was the Executive Associate Dean and Chief Diversity Officer[3] at the Carle-Illinois College of Medicine (07/2017 – 12/2018) at UIUC.

Since joining the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in Oct. 2007, he was the Abel Bliss Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering & Bioengineering, Director of the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory (a campus-wide clean room facility), and Co-Director of the campus-wide Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, a "Collaboratory" aimed at facilitating center grants and large initiatives around campus in the area of nanotechnology.

Specifically, his group has made many contributions including but not limited to;[9] Prof. Bashir and his group has developed microscale devices with integrated dielectrophoretic filters for capture of bacteria and label free electrical sensing methods for subsequent detection of bacterial growth.

Most recently, Prof. Bashir's group has had a series of articles (many of them as journal covers) that use 3D stereolithography and printing of hydrogel and polymer structures for applications in tissue engineering and biological machines.

They demonstrated the cells remain viable and that these can be used to generate new blood vessels in-vivo with precise spatial control.

He is Campus Lead on NSF Science and Technology Center on Emergent Behavior of Integrated Cellular Systems (headquartered at MIT, with partners at Georgia Tech and UIUC) and a Member of the Executive Committee of the NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Engineering at Ohio State University.

He is also co-thrust lead in a recently funded MERSEC at UIUC and Co-PI of an NSF Training Grant on Building Miniature Brain Machinery.

He played a foundational role in the development of the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago awarded in 2023 and is on the leadership executive committee.