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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

Hassnain Abbas Khan, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Heterogeneous Catalysis

Janardhanraj Subburaj, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Future Fuels, Machine Learning

Khalil Djebbi

Research and Technical Support Engineer

Research Interests: Laser Sensors

Postdoctoral Fellows

Dapeng Liu, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Jiabiao Zou, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Combustion and Atmospheric Chemistry, Laser diagnostics, Theoretical Calculations, Clean Energy

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

Md Zafar Ali Khan

M.Sc | Ph.D. Student

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

Mohamad Abou Daher

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: ​Heterogeneous Catalysts, Clean Fuels, Chemical Kinetics

Mohamed Sy

M.Sc | Ph.D. Student

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

Mohammad Adil

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Chemical Kinetics, Heat Transfer

Mohammed Almomtan

Ph.D. Student​​

Research Interests: Machine Learning, Numerical Optimization

Rayya Bedran

M.Sc | Ph.D. Student

Sk Aman Ali

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Laser Sensors, Clean Energy

Touqeer Anwar Kashif

M.Sc | Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Chemical Kinetics, Fuels and combustion

 

Visiting Students

Ayesha Izzati,
University British Colombia UBC, Canada

Limonene decomposition.

Abdullah Alamoudi,
University of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Cavity-enhanced Raman sensor for hydrogen leak detection.

Alejandro Rodríguez Montes,
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia

Investigations of lube oil effect on hydrogen ignition in RCM.

Iven Marc Dolman,
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

3-Phase water cut meter.

Mohammed Alnawar,
University of California, Irvine, USA

Natural gas analyzer.

Lean Albeshri,
The George Washington University, USA
ML-enhanced nonuniform temperature distribution reconstructions with single-beam laser absorption spectroscopy.
Omar Al Amer,
Pennsylvania state university, USA
Investigating High-Speed flows using a Shock Tube.
Zainab S. Alyousef,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Exploring hydrogen combustion and shockwave dynamics in miniature tubes.