Dr. S Wazed Ali pursued his B.Tech in Textile Technology from College of Textile Technology, Berhampore, West Bengal and  M.Tech in Fibre Science and Technology from Department of Textile and Fibre Engineering, IIT Delhi. Subsequently he did his PhD in the field of 'Nanotechnology in antibacterial finishing of textile materials' in joint collaboration of University of Bolton, UK and IIT Delhi. Post PhD, he worked as Research Scientist at SABIC Bangalore. He has been working as a faculty member at Department of Textile and Fibre Engineering, IIT Delhi since October, 2014.

Academic accolades :

• SERB Young Scientist Start-up Research Grant Award in 2016.

• Best Poster Award in 12th International Conference on Apparel & Home Textiles, 15th October, 2016, at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi Theme – Innovate, Integrate, Motivate

• Best Poster Award in International Conference ATMP, 19-20 Nov. 2018, Kanpur, India.

• 3rd Prize Award in Poster Presentation in ‘Industry Day- 2019’ in the theme ‘Emerging Nano and Advanced Material’ ‘organized by IIT Delhi’.

• Best Paper Presentation Award in International Conference on Nanomaterials: Synthesis, Characterization and Applications (ICN 2018) 11-13th May 2018, MGU Kottayam, Kerala, India.

• Bronze Award for Above and Beyond Performance at GE India Technology Centre Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore 2013.

• Commonwealth Split-Site Doctoral Fellowship, Commonwealth Fellowship Commission, U.K, 2008 and worked in a highly sophisticated research lab in England for 10 months (Institute for Material Research and Innovations, University of Bolton).

• International Bolton Fellowship, University of Bolton, U.K., (2006) for pursuing PhD at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi.

• Gold Medal, M. Tech in Fibre Science and Technology, 2006, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi (for securing highest CGPA among all the outgoing students in the year 2006).

• First Prize in poster presentation, International Conference on Technical Textiles, 2006.

• Second Prize in poster presentation, Fourth International Conference and Exhibition on Healthcare and Medical Textiles, 2007, UK.

• ‘National Talent Search Scholarship’ by National Council of Educational Research and Training 1994.

Email: wazed@iitd.ac.in 

WARL Laboratory Address: TX-134, New Analytical Laboratory, Department of Textile and Fibre Engineering, IIT Delhi

Office Address: TX 136, Department of Textile and Fibre Engineering, IIT Delhi

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