Curriculum Vitae

Name Dr. SAFIA AKHTAR KAZMI

Department : Electrical Engineering, Z.H.C.E.T, AMU, ALIGARH

Qualifications : Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering)

M.Tech Electrical (Instrumentation and Control) With First

Division (73.3%)

Present Designation : Assistant Professor (Stage3)

Date of Joining AMU : 16 July 2001

Gender : FEMALE

Specialization : Instrumentation, control systems, Process Control,

Nanomaterials, Nanocrystalline solar PV cells.

Courses Taught/ Teaching

: UG

Dynamic system Analysis, Control Systems, Electrical Measurement and Instrumentation PG

Process control Instrumentation

Advance Instrumentation

Dissertation, Seminar, Lab Course.

Publications

(Annexure I)

: 30 papers in International / National Journal and Conferences

Research guidance

(Annexure II)

: 63+ 3(Dissertations under supervision) (21 M.Tech Dissertations + 24 M.Tech Projects + 18 B. Tech Projects)

Invited Talks

(Annexure III)

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Session Chair 03

Recharging Strategies

(Annexure Iv)

50 conferences and workshops/STC attended

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University /Departmental Activities

1. Co-Coordinator NBA accreditation M.Tech (Instrumentation and control).

2. Warden, Indira Gandhi Hall AMU, Aligarh 2017

3. Assistant superintendent Examinations

4. Warden, Bibi Fatima Hall. AMU Aligarh

5. Departmental Coordinator B.E Courses

6. Time table in charge B.E courses

7. Tabulator B.E Courses

8. Treasurer, Systems society of India Aligarh Chapter.

9. Verifying officer Admissions

10. Academic Advisor

11. Member Load Reallocation committee

12. Co-coordinator national symposium on developments in instrumentation and

control

Community Services : program officer NSS

National/ International

Awards/ Recognition received

: Certificate of recognition from International society of Muslim

women in science (USA) on International Women’s Day 2014.

Best paper presentation Award , Jamia Millia Islamia New

Delhi , Aug 2003

Affiliations with Academic

Bodies

Reviewer, IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics 2017

Reviewer, of International Journal of sustainable Energy

Taylor and Francis UK

Professional memberships &

affiliations

: Member IEEE USA

Life member Instrument Society of India

Life member systems society of India (SSI), Treasurer SSI Aligarh Chapter,

Member Board of Studies,

Member Faculty of Engg and Tech.

Member AMUTA

Interaction with other

Institutes

: External Examiner, Jamia Millia Islmia

Paper setter, Integral University Lucknow

Interaction with outside world Educational Tour to Narora Nuclear Power Plant

Educational tour Manali Hydro power plant

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13. Organized Student paper contest as treasurer Systems society of India Aligarh

14. Organized student debate competition as treasurer Systems society of India

Aligarh

15. Associated in Xth Plan proposal development

16. Associated in XIIth Plan proposal development

17. Associated With B.Tech course Booklet Renewal

18. Associated with M.Tech Curriculum Revision

19. Introduced MATLAB based Experiments in Control Lab.

Annexure- I Publications

International Journals

1. Safia A. Kazmi, Salman Hameed ,Arham Shareef Ahmad, Mohammad Arshad,

Ameer Azam “Electrical and optical properties of graphene –TiO2 nanocomposite

and its applications in dye sensitized solar cells (DSSC), Journal of Alloys and

Compounds (Elsevier) Vol. 691,pp 659-665 , 2017 ISSN: 0925-8388,

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2016.08.319 .(impact factor 3.15)

2. Safia A. Kazmi, Salman Hameed , Ameer Azam, “Efficiency enhancement in Dye

Sensitized Solar Cells using Silver nanoparticles and TiCl4”, Energy Sources, Part

A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects, (Taylor and Francis) ,Vol. 39

no. 1, 67–74, 2017, ISSN, 1556-7230 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/ 15567036.

2016.1205682

3. Safia A. Kazmi, Salman Hameed, Ameer Azam, “Synthesis and characterization

of Ag nanowires: Improved performance in dye sensitized solar cells”,

Perspectives in Science, (Elsevier), Vol 8, pp 577-579, 2016, , ISSN 2213-

0209,http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pisc.2016.06.025.

4. Safia A Kazmi, Salman Hameed, “Fabrication of Dye Sensitized Solar Cells Using

ZnO Nanocomposites” , International journal of innovative research in electrical,

electronics, instrumentation and control engineering Vol. 4, Issue 3, 2016 ISSN

(Online) 2321–2004 http://dx.doi.org/10.17148/IJIREEICE 1.

5. Prabhat Kumar, Safia A Kazmi, Nazish Yasmeen, “Comparative study of

automatic generation control in traditional and deregulated power environment”

World Journal of Modelling and Simulation Vol. 6 (2010) No. 3, pp. 189-197

England, UK ISSN 1746733.

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6. Saba Mirza, Chandershekhar, Safia a kazmi, Mode Shape Analysis in Square

Plate using DSPI fringes Journal of Optical Society of America, 2007 OCIS

Codes: 120.7280

National Journals:

7. Prabhat Kumar , Safia A Kazmi, “Design and development of Novel fiber optic

pressure transducer”, Lighting India Vol 4 no.6 Nov-Dec (2009)

International / National conference:

8. Safia A Kazmi , “Development of Perovskite Solar Cell in Ambient conditions”

IEEE International conference on Power, control, Signals and Instrumentation

Engineering,during 21-22 Sept 2017 at Saveetha Engineering college Chennai,

India.

9. Safia A Kazmi, Salman Hameed, Ameer Azam, “Synthesis and characterization of

Methyl Ammonium lead Iodide for Perovskite Solar Cells” International

Conference on Nanotechnology for Better Living, during May 25-29, 2016.

National Institute of Technology Srinagar, India.

10. Safia A Kazmi, Salman Hameed, Ameer Azam, “Synthesis and Characterisation

of Silver Nanowires: Improved Performance in Dye Sensitized Solar Cells”,

International Conference on Recent Trends in Engineering and Material Sciences

(CEMS-2016) March 17-19, 2016 Jaipur National University, Jaipur, India.

11. Safia A Kazmi, Salman Hameed, Ameer Azam, “Effect of CuO nanoparticles on

the performance of Dye Sensitized Solar cells”, International Conference, Aligarh

Nano V’ International, Centre of Excellence in Materials Science

(Nanomaterials) Department of Applied Physics. Z.H. College of Engineering &

Technology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 12-15 March 2016.

12. Safia A Kazmi, Soni Sharma, Alim Kazmi, “Development of Supercapacitor”,

Aligarh Nano V International, Centre of Excellence in Materials Science

(Nanomaterials) Department of Applied Physics. Z.H. College of Engineering &

Technology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 12-15 March 2016.

13. Hashim Raza, Safia A Kazmi, “Fabrication of BiVO4 Inverse Opals for photo

electrochemical (PEC) water splitting”, Aligarh Nano V International, Centre of

Excellence in Materials Science (Nanomaterials) Department of Applied Physics.

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Z.H. College of Engineering & Technology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 12-

15 March 2016

14. Safia A Kazmi, Salman Hameed, Ameer Azam, “Investigation of Electrical and

Optical properties of TiO2- Graphene for Dye sensitized Solar cells” 12th IEEE

India International Conference Electronics, Energy, Environment, Communication,

Computer, Control, 17-20 December 2015 (INDICON 2015) 17-20 December

2015.

15. Salman Hameed ,Safia A Kazmi, Quratulain, Nadeem Ahmad, “Effect of different

dyes on TiO2 based Dye Sensitized Solar Cell”, 12th IEEE India International

Conference Electronics, Energy, Environment, Communication, Computer,

Control, (INDICON 2015) 17-20 December 2015, Jamia Millia Islamia, New

Delhi, INDIA.

16. Safia A Kazmi, Salman Hameed , Hashim Raza, “Fabrication and performance

comparison of CdS and PbS Quantum dot sensitized solar cells” 4th National

symposium on Recent Advances in Analytical Sciences and Applications 9-10 ,

Feb, 2015 Jamia Hamdard , New Delhi

17. Safia A Kazmi, Salman Hameed, “Characterization of TiO2 Graphene Nano

composite for Dye sensitized solar cells”, National conference on Emerging trends

in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (ETEEE-2015) 2-3 Feb , 2015. Jamia

Millia Islamia, New Delhi.

18. Safia A Kazmi, Salman Hameed , “Synthesis and Characterization of Graphene

Nano composite for Dye sensitized Solar Cell (DSSC)”, National conference on “

Innovative research , development and challenges in Engineering & Technology”

30 Aug ,2014 DST, and Jaipur Institute of Technology.

19. Safia A Kazmi, Salman Hameed, Wasi Khan, Nadeem Ahmad, Alim Naqvi,

“Fabrication of dye sensitized solar cells using natural and synthetic dyes”.

International conference Aligarh Nano IV, Dept of Physics, ZHCET, AMU, 8-10

March, 2014 AMU, Aligarh

20. Safia A Kazmi, Hashim Raza, Salman Hameed, Alim Naqvi, “Synthesis and

characterization of cadmium sulphide quantum dots for fabrication of Dye

sensitized solar cells”, International conference, Aligarh NanoIV Dept of Physics,

ZHCET, AMU 8-10 March, 2014 AMU, Aligarh

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21. Safia A Kazmi, Saba Mirza, “Suboptimal control of power systems using model

order reduction techniques”, International Journal of Art and Science, Multi-

disciplinary conference, held from 21-24 May 2012 at Ryerson University,

Toronto, CANADA.

22. Prabhat Kumar, Safia A Kazmi, “Application of Hankel Techniques for suboptimal

control of power system “Proceedings of International conference on Electrical

Power and Energy systems Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology

Bhopal India p.p 64-70 , 26-28 August ( 2010).

23. Safia A Kazmi, Rupendra Pachauri, Design and Development of Microcontroller

Based Ultrasonic Flaw Detector” International conference on Business and

Technology Karachi Pakistan Feb (2010) www.iqraisb.edu.pk/icbte .

24. Prabhat Kumar , Safia A Kazmi, Suboptimal controller design of power system

based on model order reduction technique, National conference on Role of

computers and electronics in Power systems Jaipur Engineering college and

research Centre. Jaipur during 13-15 July 2007.

25. Prabhat Kumar , Safia A Kazmi , “Voltage stability study of compensated EHV-AC

Transmission systems”, at National Conference on Information Technology:

Emerging Engineering Perspective and Practices’ ITEEPP, 07 Thapar Institute of

Engineering and Technology Patiala Punjab during 6-7 April 2007.

26. Prabhat Kumar , Safia A Kazmi , “Design of Suboptimal controller for power

systems based on Model order reduction technique”, National systems

conference, NSC, Manipal, Dec 14-16 2007.

27. Prabhat Kumar , Safia A Kazmi , Ibraheem, “Sub optimal control strategies of

linear time invariant systems using Aggregation technique” at All India Jamia

Electrical Engineering Conference during 16-17 Aug 2003. (National Conference)

Awarded BEST PAPER.

28. Prabhat Kumar , Safia A Kazmi , Manoj Fozdar, “Sub optimal control of power

systems using aggregated models” at All India Seminar on Power and Energy for

Sustainable Growth College Murthal during 20-21 Feb 2003 .

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29. Safia A Kazmi, Prabhat Kumar “Design of moisture meter using capacitive

technique” at International conference on Instrumentation at Pune Institute of

Engineering and Technology, Pune during 19-21 Dec 2004.

30. Safia Kazmi, Mahfoozur Rahman, Saba, “Detection and determination of

percentage of Oil content present in Mustard cake by Ultrasonic Technique”, at

National symposium and Exposition on Modern Instrumentation Challenges and

vision by IETE and AMU at AMU Aligarh. During 27-28 Feb 1999.

Annexure - II

S.No Name of Student Title of M.Tech Dissertation

1 ShabanaUrooj Design of Suboptimal controller for linear time invariant

systems incorporating sensitivity considerations. (2003)

2 FarhaDeeba Design and fabrication of moisture meter using capacitive

technique. (2005)

3 Abdul Salam Model order reduction of linear time invariant systems (2006)

4 Durdana Yasmeen Reconfiguration of flight control system under control surface

failure.( 2007)

5 Neelima Gupta Programmable logic controllers in process Automation (2008)

6 Rupendra Pachauri Design and development of Microcontroller based ultrasonic

flaw detector(2009)

7 Amit Kumar Suboptimal control of Linear time invariant systems using

Hankel norm approximation technique. (2009)

8 Gaurav Arya Comparative study of controllers for automatic generation

control of multi area power system. (2012)

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9 Sohrab Ansari Implementation of Image processing techniques for edge

detection and contrast enhancement.( 2013)

10 Mohd. Abdullah Ultrasonic imaging and its applications. (2013)

11 Mohd Kashif Design of Fractional order PID controller (2013)

12 Shailendra Kumar Study of Dye sensitized solar PV cell(2013)

13 Abdul Hafeez Comparative study of suboptimal control strategies for process

control systems. (2013)

14 Quratulain Electrical Characterization of TiO2 – Graphene nano

composite for Dye sensitized solar cells (2014)

15 Nadeem Ahmad High efficiency dye sensitized solar cells exploiting ZnO nano

structures. (2014)

16 Hashim Raza Design and characterization of quantum dot solar photovoltaic

cells (2014)

17 Mohammad

Waseem

Efficiency Enhancement of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells using

Silver nanowires (2015)

18 Deepanshu bansal Metal nano particle , synthesis and characterization for DSSC

(2016)

19 Soni sharma Design and development of Super capacitors (2016)

20 Harivansh kuntal Fabrication of DSSC using ZnO (2017)

21 Sonu Kumar Development of Super capacitor (2017)

22 Dabir Alam Electrical characterization of Sn Doped TiO2 (ongoing)

23 Saddam Husain Development of Perovskite solar PV cells (ongoing)

24 Nawed Alam Extraction of maximum power from a PV array under non

uniform irradiation conditions (ongoing)

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Annexure III

Invited Lectures

1 Invited talk on “Ultrasound in Medicine” Teachers reorientation program,

Department of Ayush Ministry of Health Govt of India , and AMU Aligarh27 Jan

2009 to 4 Feb (2009) (National)

2 Invited talk on “Ultrasonography” Work shop on research methodology, Central

council for research in Unani Medicine 27-29 March (2011)

Session Chair

1 Session Chair in Technical Session , IEEE International conference on Power,

control, Signals and Instrumentation Engineering, during 21-22 Sept 2017 at

Saveetha Engineering college Chennai, India

2 Session Chair in Technical session, National conference on Emerging trends in

Electrical and Electronics Engineering (ETEEE-2015) 2-3 Feb, 2015. Jamia Millia

Islamia, New Delhi.

3 Session Chair in Scientific session, National seminar on maternal and child health

AKTC , AMU Aligarh 27-29 March (2011)

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Annexure IV

Participation in Seminar, Symposia, Workshops, Refresher Courses, Summer Institutes

Name of Seminar/conference Name of sponsoring

agency and Place.

Duration

1. IEEE International conference on Power,

control, Signals and Instrumentation

Engineering

Saveetha Engineering

College Chennai,

India

21-22 Sept 2017

2. International Seminar on Solar Photovoltaic:

Clean and Green Source of Energy.

ZHCET, AMU 26 April 2017

3. Publishing in high Impact

Journals

ZHCET,AMU, Aligarh 25 April 2017

4. Nature Inspired optimization techniques and

research paper writing using LATEX software

EED, AMU 16-22 March

2017

5. Chemometrics: Application in chemistry

Nanotechnology and Industry

AMU, Aligarh 9-11 Dec, 2016

6. workshop on Research Tools and Technique TEQIP-II , ZHCET

AMU Aligarh

27-31 August,

2016

7. International Conference on Nanotechnology

for Better Living, 2016, during.

National Institute of

Technology Srinagar,

25-29 May, 2016

8. One Day Workshop on Make in India:

Opportunities and Challenges for Engineers

(MIOCE-2016).

AMU, Aligarh 28th March 2016

9. International Conference On Recent Trends

In Engineering and Material Sciences

(ICEMS-2016)

Jaipur National

University

17-19 March,

2016

10. Aligarh Nano V International, Centre of

Excellence in Materials Science

(Nanomaterials)

AMU, Aligarh, 12-15 March

2016,

11. IEEE India International conference

Electronics, Energy, Environment,

Communication, Computer, Control

IEEE, Jamia Millia

Islamia, New Delhi

17-20 Dec-15 ,

IEEE,

12. 4th National symposium on Recent Advances

in Analytical Sciences and Applications.

Jamia Hamdard New

Delhi.

9-10, Feb, 2015

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13. National conference on Emerging trends in

Electrical and Electronics Engineering

(ETEEE-2015)

Jamia Millia Islamia,

New Delhi.

2-3 Feb, 2015.

14. National conference Innovative research ,

development and challenges in Engineering

& Technology

Jaipur Institute of

Technology. Jaipur

30 Aug, 2014

15. Authorship workshop, How to publish

technical paper with IEEE

IEEE and , IIT Delhi 11 Aug 2014,

16. Short term course, Academic paper writing

skills

UGC Academic Staff

College , AMU Aligarh

26March- 2April,

2014

17. International conference , Aligarh Nano IV ,

Dept of Physics, ZHCET, AMU

AMU, Aligarh 8-10 March, 2014

18. Short term course "Nanomaterials:

Characterization & Application"

NITTTR Chandigarh 18-22 November

2013

19. CE and QIP course on C-Si solar cells and

modules, NCPRE Bombay

IIT Bombay 11-13 Sept 2013

20. Short term course “ health well being

awareness”

UGC Academic Staff

College , AMU Aligarh

02-07 Sept, 2013

21. Workshop on “Recent trends in

Measurement & control”

ZHCET, AMU,

Aligarh

20 - 21 April,

2013

22. National Symposium on “Nano

Technology for chemical applications”

ZHCET, AMU Aligarh 27 Feb 2013,

23. Workshop on “Advances in Gas Insulated

system”

ZHCET, AMU,

Aligarh

28- 29, January

2013,

24. Workshop on “ Fuel Cell as backup Power

for Telecommunication Networks

ZHCET, AMU, Aligarh 22,Dec. 2012

25. International Journal of Art and Science,

Multi-disciplinary conference.

Ryerson University,

Toronto, Canada.

21-24 May 2012

26. National Workshop on “Capacity building of

women managers in Higher education”

UGC, and Delhi

University

3-7 Jan, 2012

27. National Symposium on “Developments in

Instrumentation & Control Engineering (Dice

-2012)”

EED, ZHCET, A.M.U.,

Aligarh

March 17-18,

2012

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28. Short term course Future of Electrical Energy

(Trends and Innovations).

TEQIP ZHCET, AMU 12-15 March

2012

29. Short term course “Developments in

Instrumentation and control (DICE)”

TEQIP ZHCET, AMU 17-18 march

2012,

30. National work shop on” Wide area monitoring

and control using Synchro phasors

Technology”

IIT ,Kanpur 13-14 April 2012,

31. Orientation course Academic staff college. UGC, AMU Aligarh 1st Feb to 1st

March 2011,

32. International conference on Electrical Power

and Energy system

Maulana Azad

National Institute of

Technology Bhopal

26-28 Aug 2010

33. Two week training program on “Electrical

Insulation systems”

ZHCET, AMU, Aligarh 16 - 28 Feb 2009

34. Short term training program on “Modeling

and simulation of high performance AC

drives”

ZHCET, AMU, Aligarh 7 -12 Jan 2008

35. National Conference on Information

Technology: Emerging Engineering

Perspective and Practices’

Thapar Institute of

Engineering and

Technology Patiala

6-7 April 2007.

36. Short Term Training Program on ‘Automation

in Industries’

National Institute of

Technical Teachers

training and Research

(NITTTR) Chandigarh

5- 19 Jan 2007

37. Training Program On “Recent trends in

Renewable Energy and Management”

(RTREM)

EED, AMU Aligarh 16-21 March

2006

38. National conference on Mobile

communication

ZHCET AMU Aligarh 2006,

39. QIP Short term course on “Intelligent

Sensors and Control”

IIT Kanpur 04 -10 May 2005

40. International conference on Instrumentation Pune Institute of

Engineering and

Technology , Pune

19-21 Dec 2004.

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41. All India symposium on Recent trends in

Power generation Transmission and

Distribution Systems”

Administrative block ,

AMU Aligarh

18, 19 April 2004

42. “Academic Writing Course” Academic Staff

College AMU Aligarh

10 - 19 March

2004.

43. All India Jamia Electrical Engineering

Conference

Jamia Millia Islamia

New Delhi

16-17 Aug 2003,

44. One day “Patent Awareness Workshop” Govt. of India Patent

office, and ZHCET

AMU Aligarh

22 July 2003.

45. All India Seminar on Power and Energy for

Sustainable Growth

C.R State College

Murthal Haryana

20-21 Feb 2003

46. Training program on “Recent trends in

Insulation Technology”

ZHCET AMU Aligarh 20 Jan 2003 to

02 Feb 2003.

47. National symposium on Acoustics Dept. of Physics AMU

Aligarh

22-24 Oct 2002.

48. Short Term Training Program on “Institutional

Management for Faculty of Engineering

Colleges”

TTTI Chandigarh 23 - 27 Sept.

2002.

49. UGC Sponsored Refresher Course “Recent

trends in the field of Electronics and

computers”

Academic Staff

College and ZHCET

AMU Aligarh

31 Dec 2001 to

19 Jan 2002,

50. National symposium and Exposition on

Modern Instrumentation Challenges and

vision

IETE, ELED AMU

Aligarh.

27-28 Feb 1999.

Computer proficiency:

Window based operating system

Mendeley desktop, MATLAB, VISIO, Origin, Powder X, Lab View, Softwares

Contact: sa.kazmi.ee@amu.ac.in, safiakazmi@gmail.com

4/81, Kabir colony, Anoopshahar Road, Aligarh

Ph: 09258893888