Experience

Research Experience in Addition to Master’s and Doctoral Research Work

• Presently working as a Post Doctoral Research Associate at INHA University, South Korea in the area applications of electrical discharge plasma since March 2004.
• Invited as a visiting researcher to Cheju National University, Korea during May-August 2002 under Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF) fellowship.
• Research Assistant at Materials Research Center, IISc in the area of electrical properties of glass-ceramics from July 1998 to December 1999 under the fellowship of Department of Science and Technology (DST), India.

Teaching Experience

Offering a couple of courses in the broad area of electrical discharge plasmas; basics and applications to doctoral and master’s students at Inha University, Korea.

Industrial Experience

[1] Working for SEWON, Electro-Circuit Systems, Korea, since April 2005. Two projects are being carried out. First one is to develop surface electrical discharge based ionizer for negative ion generation and indoor air cleaning applications. Reactors have been successfully designed, developed and tested. Some improvements are being made currently. High negative ion concentrations with minimal generation of ozone are the key features of these reactors. Second project is to test run a plasma reactor for NOx removal from diesel engine exhaust. The assignment with the company also includes training their engineers in fundamentals of electrostatics and electrical discharge plasma.

[2] Providing technical consultancy in the area of electrical discharges, high voltage engineering and environmental remediation techniques to some of the industries in Korea.