ADJUNCT FACULTY

Dr. Sathish Kannan

Prior to joining AUS, Sathish Kannan was an engineering program manager at Rolls-Royce plc (UK). He led global program teams responsible for the design and manufacture of aerospace propulsion-related products in support of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and Airbus A380/A350 XWB fleet. His areas of interest are Advanced alloys, Composite Materials, Sustainable Manufacturing, Additive Manufacturing and Finite Element Modelling. A Senior Fellow of the Royal Institution of Mechanical Engineers (UK), he is a senior member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and a Highly Qualified Personnel of AUTO21' Networks of Centres of Excellence (Canada).

Dr. Abid Yahya

Abid Yahya (Senior Member, IEEE) received the bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronic engineering majoring in telecommunication from the University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar, Pakistan, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in wireless and mobile systems from Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia. He began his career on an engineering path, which is rare among other researcher executives. Currently, he is working at the Botswana International University of Science and Technology. He is also a Registered Professional Engineer with the Botswana Engineers Registration Board (ERB). He has many research publications to his credit in numerous reputable journals, conference articles, and book chapters. He has received several awards and grants from various funding agencies and supervised several master’s and Ph.D. candidates. His recent four books, such as Emerging Technologies in Agriculture, Livestock, and Climate (Springer, 2020), Mobile WiMAX Systems: Performance Analysis of Fractional Frequency Reuse (CRC Press | Taylor & Francis, 2019), Steganography Techniques for Digital Images, LTE-A Cellular Networks: Multi-Hop Relay for Coverage, Capacity, and Performance Enhancement (Springer International Publishing, July 2018 and January 2017), and are being followed in national and international universities.  

Dr. Ravi Samikannu

Ravi Samikannu is currently working as an Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering Department in Botswana International University of Science and Technology, Palapye, Botswana. He obtained his Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering, 2012 from Anna University, Chennai, India. He has a total teaching experience of 17 years at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. At present, 4 Ph.D. and 7 Master students are doing research under his supervision. Three Ph.D. students and 17 Master students completed their research work under his supervision. He has published 80 research papers in International Journals. He has presented 60 papers in International and National Conferences and has received the Best Paper Award two times for his presentation. He is presently working on Smart Grid, Power Systems and Power Electronics. He is actively engaged in teaching, research, and academic administration. He has played a significant role in setting up the various laboratories for different electrical engineering courses and prepared the department for accreditation from other quality agencies like NBA, AICTE, and UGC. He is a life member of IE(I), ISTE and IEEE. He has conducted a 4 National Level Symposium and a Science Exhibition. He served as guest editor for SAGE, CMC Press and other publishers. He is the reviewer in IEEE and other reputed Journals and has delivered special guest lecturers in many International and National conferences. He is as an active member in IDDS and participated in different rural community development projects.

Dr. R. Jothi Ramalingam

Dr. R. Jothi Ramalingam received his Bachelor and Master’s degree in the field of chemistry and Analytical chemistry from University of Madras, India. He further received his doctorate of philosophy (Ph.D) degree in chemistry (2005) from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India. He is currently faculty and Associate professor of chemistry department, college of science, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. He is teaching basic inorganic and physical chemistry, nanoscience chemistry courses for bachelours and developing Research methodology and publications related with Nanomaterials role in renewable energy and health care applications. So far he documented 5 United States patent and 150 peer reviewed ISI research articles in impact factor Journals. His research area broadly covers the porous and nano structures for catalysis application, renewable energy research, CO2 reduction, Climate change hydrogen energy programs, electrochemical sensor and wide variety of nanomaterials fabrication from biomass. Presently he is working on functional nanomaterials for pollution control via catalysis, clean energy techniques, perovskites based solar cell and supercapacitor application towards Future Renewable energy applications

Dr. Syed Noeman Taqui

Syed Noeman Taqui has been awarded Ph.D in Chemistry by the University of Malaya, Kaula Lumpur, Malaysia, for his thesis ‘Study on the biodegradation of azo dyes using nutracetical industrial spent and resultant waste as filler materials to fabricate green composite. 

Disciplines

• Physical Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Polymer Chemistry

Skills and expertise

• Analytical Biochemistry, Mass Spectrometry, Chromatographic Method Development, High Pressure Liquid Chromatography, Method Validation, Tandem Mass Spectrometry, Extraction, Solid Phase Extraction, Metabolomics, Analytical Statistics, Agilent, Metabonomics, Biological Mass Spectrometry, Analytical Toxicology, Micellar Electrokinetic Capillary Chromatography, Analytical Research and Development, LCM, Titration, IR Analysis, Pesticide Analysis, Pesticide Chemistry, Validation Studies, Chemstation, FID, Acid-Base Titration, TOF, Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry, Chemicals, Ion Chromatography, Metabolite Identification