SONA has added yet again to its list of high-profile visits. Recently, Prof. Simarjeet Singh Saini, a distinguished professor from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada, visited the SONA Campus. A 1996 graduate of IIT-Kharagpur, Prof. Saini attained his PhD from University of Maryland, USA in 2001. After an exciting, eventful and greatly successful period of design and development of new technology and new products for industry in Maryland until 2007, Prof. Saini joined the University of Waterloo. Prof Saini’s rich and diverse research experience over the years has culminated in outstanding publications in Optoelectronics, Nano Photonics, Optical Networks, Lasers, Photonic Devices and Chem-Bio Sensors and also earned him many international patents, some of which have been commercialised.
Prof. Saini had very significant and fruitful interaction with SONA faculty and students on 19-12-2014. He visited various Research and Development Centres at SONA and evinced keen interest in the ongoing research. In his view, SONA has acquired a potentially advanced research capability and has established very good infrastructures to support quality higher education. SONA College of Technology, Salem and University of Waterloo, Canada will work collaboratively to take R&D to the next level for advanced research that is mutually beneficial. The possible areas include DC motors for space applications, photonic devices for solar cells, Nano particles for engineering applications, Power electronics, Electronic Nose for medical applications, Nano composite materials and Nano mineral oils for high voltage transformer applications, image processing for agricultural and medical applications, spectrometers for computer colour matching, OLED, Plastic Electronics and Chem-Bio Sensors, Multimedia learning resources, Data mining and Network Security.
SONA has taken a quantum step ahead in research at the international level and is truly proud to be associated with University of Waterloo, Canada.
