List of Publications; Researcher ID profile;
SUJEET K. SINHA
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Present Address:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The National University of Singapore, 9 Engineering Drive 1, Singapore 117576, TEL: (+65) 6516 4825
E-mail:mpesks@nus.edu.sg
Education:
1999 ___________MBA University of British Columbia, Canada
1994 ___________PhD (Chem. Engg.) Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London UK
1991 ___________MSc. (Engg.) (Mech. Engg.) Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
1988 ___________BSc (Engg.) (Met. Engg.) National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur, India (formerly known as Regional Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur)
Work History:
Nov. 2001 to present _____Department of Mechanical Engineering, NUS, Singapore
Jan.-Oct.2001___________Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, AIST, Tsukuba, JAPAN
2000__________________ National Institute of Standards & Technology, Gaithersburg, MD USA
1998-1999 ____________ Ashta Systems Consultants Inc. Vancouver CANADA
1994-1997____________ Department of Chemical Engineering & Chemical Technology, Imperial College, London, UK
1988-1989_____________Usha Alloys Steel Ltd. Jamshedpur INDIA
Visiting Research Positions:
June 2010_____________Surface Science and Tribology Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Tokyo, JAPAN.
July 2007_____________Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engneering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, JAPAN.Lab website
July 2005_____________Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, JAPAN
July 2004_____________Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, JAPAN. Lab website
July 2003_____________National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology, Tsukuba, JAPAN
1996_____________Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, JAPAN
1994_____________Tribology Division, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, Lyon FRANCE.Lab website
Professional Interests:
Research in the fields of Micro-engineering and nano-engineering of materials; Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS); Lubrication, Tribology, Friction and wear studies of polymers, composites and thin-films; Micro-hardness of polymers; Micro-scratch hardness and surface deformation mechanisms of polymers; Nano-scratching of polymers; Nano-tribology; Bio-tribology; Design and fabrication of tribological and material processing equipments for research and industrial applications.
Teaching Interests:
Materials in Engineering Design,Materials Failure,Mechanical Behaviour of Materials, Materials for Engineers
Teaching awards: Commendation List awards (Academic years 2002-2003 and 2007-08), Honours List award (2008-09), Annual Teaching Excellence Award (2008-09)
Outstanding Student Achievements
Professional Membership and commitments:
Professional Engineer (Registration no. 4262) (PEB Singapore)
Associate Editor, Advances in Tribology , Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Member, Editorial Borad, Tribology International , Elsevier
Member, Editorial Borad, Tribology - Materials, Surfaces & Interfaces , Maney Publishing and the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Minning, UK
Member, Editorial Borad, Industrial Lubrication and Tribology , Emerald Group Publishing, UK
Member of the Society of Tribologists & Lubrication Engineers (STLE), USA
Associate member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), USA
Member of (ASM International), USA
Life member of Tribology Society of India
Peer reviewer for technical journals "Wear", "Tribology International", "Tribology Letters", "Materials Science and Engineering A", "Journal of Applied Polymer Science", "Acta Biomaterialia", "Applied Surface Science" and "Langmuir"
Co-Chairman of the 1st International Conference on Advanced Tribology, 1-3 December 2004, Singapore. iCAT2004 Special Issue of Tribology International (only selected papers from this conference)
Member, International Advisory Committee, International Conference on Advances in Materials Processing and Characterization (AMPC2006), 28-30 August, 2006, Chennai, India
Member, Technical Organizing Committee, International Conference on Industrial Tribology - 2006(ICIT-2006), Nov 30-Dec 2, 2006, Bangalore, India
Member, International Advisory Committee, International Conference on Future Trends in Composite Materials and Processing, Dec 12-14, 2007, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
Chair, 2nd International Conference on Advanced Tribology, 3-5 December 2008 Singapore, iCAT 2008
Associate Technical Paper Solicitor, Materials & Surface Engineering Track, World Tribology Congress IV, 6-11 Sept. 2009, Kyoto, Japan
Co-Chair, Workshop on Nano-tribology and related materials issues in MEMS, 13-14 May 2010, Singapore, Workshop Group Photo,
Research Matters:
List of publications/Patent/Editorials...Research Group Photo 2004...2005,...2006...2007...June 2008...Dec 2008...July 09...Jan 2010...June 2010...July 2010...Jan 2011...July 2011...Nov 2011 (with Prof. Takahara, Kyushu University)...Feb 2012 (with Prof. Sanjay K. Biswas, IISc Bangalore)
PhD Graduates & colleagues:
Dr. N. Satyanarayana (PhD 2007); Dr. Nitya Nand Gosvami (PhD 2008); Dr. Mohammed Abdul Samad (PhD 2010); Dr. Myo Minn (PhD 2010)Invited Research Presentations
Invited Talk, organized by the Tribology Society of India & Indian Institute of Metals Ranchi Chapters, held at Steel Authority of India Limited, R&D, Ranchi, India, 20 December 2010.
Invited Talk, ACS Symposium in honour of Dr Kash Mittal at 240th ACS National Meeting, Boston, USA, 22-26 August 2010.
Invited Seminar, 57th Global Center of Excellence for Mechanical Systems Innovation Open Seminar, University of Tokyo, 23 July 2010 (seminar poster)
Invited Talk, Forefront of Tribology, Sendai 2009 (September 12 to 14, 2009, Sendai, Japan).
Keynote Talk, IV World Tribology Congress 2009, 6 to 11 September, 2009, Kyoto, Japan.
Invited paper, 83rd American Chemical Society Colloid and Surface Science Symposium and 13th International Association of Colloid & Interface Scientists? Conference on Surface and Colloid Science, to be held at Columbia University, New York, USA from June 14 to 19, 2009.
Invited Lecture, The Society of Polymer Science, Japan (SPSJ) 58th Annual Meeting, May 27 to May 29, 2009, Kobe, Japan.
Invited talk, Symposium U, Mechanical Behavior of Micro- and Nano- Scale Systems, International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies, ICMAT 2009, Singapore, June 28 - July 3, 2009.
Invited Lecture, IISc Centenary - International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering (IC-ICAME) , 2-4 July 2008, Bangalore, India.
Invited Lecture, The 17th International Symposium on Surfactants in Solution, 17-22 August 2008, Berlin, Germany (organized by Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam-Golm, Germany)
Invited Seminar, 3rd Global-COE Seminar at Kyushu University, 20 July 2007 (seminar poster)
Invited Lecture, The 16th International Symposium on Surfactants in Solution, June 4-9, 2006, Seoul, South Korea
Invited Lecture, International Symposium on Forefront of Tribology 2005, 27-29 May,2005, Kobe, Japan
Invited Oral paper presentation, Asia Pacific Magnetic Recording Conference, 27-29 August 2002, Singapore
Invited presenter as a young tribologist at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London, UK, 1993
World Tribologists:> With Prof. Biswas, Prof. Briscoe, Prof. Kato and Dr. Hsu...During NUS/IISc Tribology Collaboration meeting...With Prof. Briscoe at the Institute of Physics London Oct 2009
My picture gallary:
Mumbai (India), Paris (France), Berlin (Germany), Kyushu (Japan), Bath (England), Seoul (S. Korea), Nagasaki (Japan), Fukuoka (Japan), Matsushima, Sendai (Japan), Horyuji Temple, Nara(Japan)
Students with excellent academic background wishing to pursue postgraduate studies by research (PhD) in the areas of Data Storage Tribology, Nanolubrication, MEMS Tribology, Nano-scale contact/shear phenomena at our laboratories may contact our office.
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