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July
2021-present: |
Director and Senior Professor, BITS-Pilani,
Dubai Campus |
| Aug. 2016-June 2021: |
Associate
Dean, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering, RMIT
University, Melbourne, Australia. |
| 2015-present: |
Professor
of Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne,
Australia. |
| 2001-2015: |
Associate
Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National
University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore |
| 2000-2001: |
Visiting
Scientist, CPIMA (Center for Polymer Interfaces and Macromolecular Assemblies),
University of California at Davis and Stanford University, USA |
| 1997-2000: |
Senior
Lecturer, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, NUS |
| 1998-2001: |
Visiting
Scientist, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo Japan, with JSPS
Fellowship (Japan Society for Promotion of Science) |
| 1993-1997: |
Lecturer,
Department of Chemical Engineering, NUS |
| 1991-1993: |
Research
Scientist, Materials Research Institute, University of Texas, El Paso, Texas,
USA.
Areas
of research: thin films, molecular
assembly, molecular optics and photochromic materials.
|
| 1989-1991: |
Manager, West Coast, CTC Technologies, Inc., California/Arizona, USA.
- Consultant,
thin film fabrication and characterization
- Contract
research in molecular assembly
- West
Coast representative for marketing and sales
|
| 1988-89: |
Post-Doctoral Fellow,
Department of Chemical Engineering, UC Davis (with Professors B.J. McCoy and
J.M. Smith).
Research:
- Supercritical
fluid / environmentally benign processing
- Re-generation of
spent activated carbon
- Equilibrium and
kinetic studies for ethyl acetate sorption on activated carbon
- Extraction of
natural materials – b-carotene, essential oils
- Decaffeination of
coffee beans with supercritical CO2
Solvent-free
cleaning of microelectronic devices and equipment
|
| 1985-89: |
Graduate Research
Assistant, USAFOSR (United States Air Force Office of
Scientific Research) and GE (General Electric) contracts:PhD Research (Thesis advisors:Professors P. Stroeve and B. Higgins (Chemical Engineering) and S. T. Kowel
(Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- Online diagnostics
in Langmuir-Blodgett films
- Non-centrosymmetric
molecular assembly
- Organic-hybrid
nano-structured thin films for nonlinear optics
- Microelectronic
device fabrication and application for film diagnostics
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Chemical Engineering
- Fluid
mechanics, process control courses and laboratory
|
| 1983-85: |
Graduate Research Assistant,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Davis
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Research
in shear-induced flocculation for water treatment systems
|
| 1982-83: |
Undergraduate Research Intern (University
of Madras)
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Fluidized
bed combustion for power plants
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