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Farooq's group for Advanced Sensing Technology & Energy Research 
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Principal Investigator

Aamir Farooq, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator, Professor, Mechanical Engineering​​​​

Research Interests: Fuels and combustion, Laser Sensors, Spectroscopy, Catalysis, Chemical Kinetics, Clean Energy, Dual Comb Spectroscopy

Research Group Staff

Janardhanraj Subburaj, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Future Fuels, Machine Learning

Khalil Djebbi

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Laser Sensors

Zyad Mohammad

Prototype Engineer (Research Specialist)

Postdoctoral Fellows

Dapeng Liu, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Mohamed Sy, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Machine Learning, Laser Sensing, Laser diagnostics, Laser Absorption Spectroscopy

Touqeer Anwar Kashif, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Chemical Kinetics, Fuels and combustion

Viacheslav Meshcherinov, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Waleed Ahmad, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: ​Heterogeneous Catalysts

Zhenhai Wang, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Laser Sensors, Spectroscopy, Laser Sensing

PhD Students

Ahmad Alsewailem

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Fuels, Clean Energy, Laser Sensors

Bilal Rinchi

M.Sc | Ph.D. Student

Fakhrianda Aswin Luthfia Zufar

M.Sc | Ph.D. Student

Jiuzhou Zhao (Adam)

M.Sc | Ph.D. Student

Md Zafar Ali Khan

M.Sc | Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Clean Combustion, Machine Learning, Optimization, Decarbonization

Mohamed Farhat Benkaroui

M.Sc | Ph.D. Student

Mohammad Adil

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Chemical Kinetics, Heat Transfer

Muhammad Shoaib Ijaz

Ph.D. Student

Mustafa Al Salman

Ph.D. Student

Rayya Bedran

M.Sc | Ph.D. Student

Sanskar Maddi

Ph.D. Student

Sk Aman Ali

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Laser Sensors, Clean Energy

 

Visiting Students

Shaker Alshehri,
Duke University, USA
Open-path Multi-species Leak Detection Using Cavity-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
Sobia Raza,
Amity University Noida, India
Property Prediction for SAFs
Mohamed Dridi,
Ecole Polytechnique de Tunisie, Tunisia
High Altitude Platform Stations (HAPS) for Environmental Monitoring
Mohamed Ali Kammoun,
Ecole Polytechnique de Tunisie, Tunisia
Three Phase Water Cut Meter