Guwahati – A nano technology scientist from Assam on a summer tour of five top American universities has garnered interest of the scientific community and harnessed support for research projects as well as collaboration for international conference in January 2017.
Head of the Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering of Assam Don Bosco University (ADBU) Prof. Sunandan Baruah visited Stanford University, North Dakota State University, Minnesota State University, University of Missouri and Columbia University. In each, he gave presentations and had meetings with faculty members and department chairs.
Prof Baruah from Guwahati spent a week at North Dakota State University (NDSU) which has research collaboration with ADBU and spent time with Dr. Achintya Bezbaruah in the Nanotechnology lab learning a few new techniques.
He also gave two presentations at NDSU, one on “Nanotechnology for Environmental Remediation” on June 24 and another on June 17 entitled “Developing Environmental Sensors.”
He also met with Department Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering Dr. Dinesh Katti, Graduate Co-ordinator Prof. Kalpana Katti, Prof. Eakalak Khan, Dr. Halis Simsek, Dr. Ying Huang and Dr. Wei Lin and discussed about possible research collaborations. NDSU has shown interest in participating in the International conference iCAN2017 to be organized by ADBU, scheduled to be held from January 9 – 13, 2017.
The presentation at Stanford University on the June 29 was entitled “Poor Man’s Nanotechnology at Assam Don Bosco University.” Prof. Baruah met Prof. Krishna Saraswat and discussed with him in length regarding Indo US funding for collaborative research. He had a lunch meeting with Prof. Arogyaswami Paulraj, who assured support to ADBU for getting National Research Funding.
At the University of Missouri in Kansas City (UMKC) Prof. Baruah delivered a talk with the title “Poor Man’s Nanotechnology at Assam Don Bosco University,” July 5. It followed a series of meetings with Prof. Deep Medhi, Dr. Masud Chaudhury and Dr. Ahmed Hassan of the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department.
Department Chair of CS & EE Prof. Ghulam Chaudhry lauded the efforts of ADBU for high quality research with limited means.
Prof. Baruah visited Minnesota State University, Moorhead where the College of Education and Human Services showed interest for academic collaboration with the Department of Social Work of ADBU.
At Columbia University, Prof. Baruah had a discussion with the Dean of Engineering who offered ample opportunities for collaboration as they have a strong nanotechnology research team.
Prof. Baruah had a long teleconference with Prof. Barbara Karn, the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization (SNO), Prof. Omowunmi A. Sadik, Director, Center for Advanced Sensors & Environmental Systems (CASE), State University of New York at Binghamton and Dr. Achintya Bezbaruah for collaboration in the International Conference (iCAN2017) scheduled for January 2017. They have agreed to be a part of the conference. A Skype meeting is scheduled for July 24 to finalize conference details.