Faculty Area: 2. University faculty

Ms Prachi Mehta is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Engineering Area at NIIT University. She is pursuing her PhD from CTAE, Udaipur where her research is focused on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. She is passionate about exploring the societal impacts of AI technologies and aims to develop solutions that address real-world challenges. After completing her Masters, she worked as a lecturer at Poornima College of Engineering for 2 years. And she was the guest faculty at CTAE, Udaipur for 1 year, from where is pursuing her PhD as well. Currently she is teaching Machine Learning using Python and Artificial Intelligence at NIIT University.

Dr Abhishek Rawat is an Assistant Professor in the Geographic Information Systems area at NIIT University. He completed his PhD from IIT ISM (Dhanbad), with his research focused on seismic hazard assessment in northern Bihar using geospatial techniques. His research interests primarily revolve around environmental hazard assessment and the application of geospatial and image enhancement techniques.

Prof Gautham More, an alumnus of Bangalore University, is a Professor of Practice and Area Director of Educational Technology. With over 36 years of experience in Finance, Technology and ICT Education, he brings to NIIT University a wealth of expertise.
A banker turned education technologist, Prof. More’s passion for education started through several experiments with students in rural Karnataka which involved the use of technology as a tool in learning. From then on, his quest for impacting lives through education led him into various corporate roles in India and Africa.
His tenure at NIIT Ltd was at the Instructional Research & Development Division, then at NIIT Networks and finally NIIT School Learning Solutions. The stint at NIIT was embellished with multiple awards of Excellence that culminated in being a member of the Chairman’s Quality Club when he was Technology Head at School Learning Solutions.
With the intent of touching more young lives with quality education, Prof More moved to RUMI Education which was in the affordable school segment. As General Manager for Technology Initiatives, his solutions won the best Innovation award In Vocational Education & Skills Training at World Education Summit 2011.
His expertise in executing high volume ICT projects was leveraged next by Core Education & Technologies. As Senior Vice President for operations, he ensured that quality computer education was made a reality for more than 5 million students across the country with more than 35000 educators getting trained in ICT.
This capability then extended to the African continent, wherein, as Chief Executive Officer of STPL Global, he leveraged Ed-tech extensively to improve the quality of learning and instruction in schools in Nigeria.
He is currently involved in the Technical and Higher Education domain as well, notably with NIIT University where he is responsible for implementing Pedagogic innovations through an elaborate Learning Engineering framework called the Additive Curriculum. The industry is involved in mentoring students by providing real-industry problems along with the necessary technical tools and insights. This integration of learning and business processes through the Additive Curriculum prepares students to be industry ready.

Dr Zeesha Mishra working as a Assistant Professor in the Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) Area in NIIT University, Neemrana. Her research interests include cryptography, lightweight cryptographic algorithms, and hardware architecture design for digital images. She has primarily worked on lightweight cryptography, a branch of cryptography designed to provide security solutions for environments with constrained resources, such as embedded systems, IoT devices, and smart cards.

Dr Md Abdus Salam Shaik is an Assistant Professor in the area of Mathematics and Basic Sciences at NIIT University (NU). Abdus Salam has earned his PhD in Chemistry with a major in Materials Chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He has received his bachelor’s degree from Calcutta University and completed his MSc degree from Jamia Millia Islamia. He works in the area of synthesizing various carbon nanoparticles and demonstrating their cutting-edge applications in sensing technology. His research also includes the use of ultrafast spectroscopic techniques to study the excited state phenomena involved in the various applications of carbon-based nanomaterials. He has several publications in peer-reviewed journals and has given poster presentations at national as well as international conferences.

Dr Md Abdus Salam Shaik is an Assistant Professor in the area of Mathematics and Basic Sciences at NIIT University (NU). Abdus Salam has earned his PhD in Chemistry with a major in Materials Chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He has received his bachelor’s degree from Calcutta University and completed his MSc degree from Jamia Millia Islamia. He works in the area of synthesizing various carbon nanoparticles and demonstrating their cutting-edge applications in sensing technology. His research also includes the use of ultrafast spectroscopic techniques to study the excited state phenomena involved in the various applications of carbon-based nanomaterials. He has several publications in peer-reviewed journals and has given poster presentations at national as well as international conferences.

Dr Md Abdus Salam Shaik is an Assistant Professor in the area of Mathematics and Basic Sciences at NIIT University (NU). Abdus Salam has earned his PhD in Chemistry with a major in Materials Chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He has received his bachelor’s degree from Calcutta University and completed his MSc degree from Jamia Millia Islamia. He works in the area of synthesizing various carbon nanoparticles and demonstrating their cutting-edge applications in sensing technology. His research also includes the use of ultrafast spectroscopic techniques to study the excited state phenomena involved in the various applications of carbon-based nanomaterials. He has several publications in peer-reviewed journals and has given poster presentations at national as well as international conferences.

Shivani Varshney completed her MTech from the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Punjab, where she focused her research on gene regulation in lung cancer, aiming to target genes for advanced lung cancer treatments. During her tenure at IIT Ropar, she was involved in several significant projects. Her thesis projects include ‘Exploring the non-canonical regulatory roles of TAF1C- a component of RNA Pol I transcription system’ and conducting a systematic review on ‘Wearable sensor-based devices for continuous glucose measurement in diabetes patients’.

Dr Vikash Kumar has earned his MTech and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, India. He specializes in synthesizing nanostructured materials (TiO2, ZnO, Hybrid nanocomposites, Graphene, and Graphene oxide) for the application in Photocatalysis and Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells. In addition to his MTech and PhD research, he also specializes in the bioconversion of lignocellulosic biomass into ethanol. He is well versed in handling instruments like Solar Simulator, I-V testing multimeter, UV-visible spectrophotometer, FTIR, BET Surface Area Analyser. He has comprehensive knowledge in analyzing data obtained from FESEM, XRD, UV-Visible spectrophotometer, EDXS and XPS.

Prof Gopalan’s career spans over 30 years. He has held various faculty and administrative positions at IIT Bombay. He was Director of Thapar Institute of