Experience

Institute of Space Technology (IST)

• Pakistan
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Professor

  • Sep 2017 - Present

  Teaching specialized courses in Materials Science to graduate and post graduate students including Phase Transformations, Aerospace Materials, Nuclear Materials, High Temperature Materials, Extraction of Materials, Failure Analysis.Supervising Ph.D. , Masters research and final year projects of undergrad students in the field of energy beam- material interaction, high temperature coatings, aerospace materials, establishment of quality control criteria for high tech products.Submitted proposals for research projects of national significance.Organized workshops on ‘Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope’ , ‘Advanced Aerospace Materials’, ‘Lasers in Materials Processing’.



Govt Metallurgical Research Laboratories

• Senior Engineer to Managing Director

  • Feb 1987 - Oct 2017

  Managed Mega Projects from Concepts to Production in the fields of special steels, high technology magnetic materials, extruded products of aluminum alloys, conversion of Pakistani mineral reserves into Rare Earth Metals, SONAR Refurbishment and Calibration FacilityJoint projects / Coordination with major engineering concerns of Pakistan PSM, PAEC, HMC, HIT, PAF, PN, PMTF, POF for projectsInteraction with Academia – establishment of higher education policy for major organizations, developed curricula, designed laboratories, supervised /Reviewed PhD and MS research projects, assessed progress of PSF funding to Universities.Major Research Projects - Synthesis of Protective Coating on high purity high strength steels, electron beam and laser interaction with materials, specialty metals development facility, development of high purity vacuum melting furnace.A wide variety of short term research materials’ projects of wide variety.More than ninety international publications and patents.



University of Connecticut

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral Research Associate

  • Mar 1986 - Feb 1987

  Projects in Synthesis of chalcogenide glass optical coatings, laser chemical vapor deposition of organo-metallics, rapidly solidified surfaces on plasma sprayed coatings and high speed steels, effect of heat flow and fluid flow in molten metal on macro & microstructural features, dev of mathematical models for heat flow and fluid flow in molten surfaces in metals produced by focused energy beams. Projects in Synthesis of chalcogenide glass optical coatings, laser chemical vapor deposition of organo-metallics, rapidly solidified surfaces on plasma sprayed coatings and high speed steels, effect of heat flow and fluid flow in molten metal on macro & microstructural features, dev of mathematical models for heat flow and fluid flow in molten surfaces in metals produced by focused energy beams.