Department of Applied Sciences

Dr Hukum Singh is currently working as an Associate Professor (Physics) and Departmental Coordinator of Applied Sciences. Dr Singh has also served as Head of Deptt. of Applied Sciences. He has proficiency in making Time Table, using software and actively involved in research. He has a teaching experience of more than 18 years to undergraduate and postgraduate students. He has obtained his PhD degree with major in Physics and minor in Computer Science from Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttaranchal. His Topic of PhD thesis was: Studies of Certain Selected Materials with Photoacoustic Spectroscopy.

Prior to his appointment at NCU, Dr Singh has worked as Lecturer at Bareilly College, Bareilly, and PDM University, Bahadurgarh Haryana. He has worked on a DST funded research project as SRF for about three years. He has 68 research publications in reputed journals and has 72 papers presented in National, International conferences and workshops as well. He has also published one book (A Text Book of Engineering Physics, Icon Publications). He teaches Engineering Physics-I, Physics-II and Fundamental of Physics.

• HukumSingh, has presented research paper in the 24th congress of the International Commission of Optics (ICO-24, Japan Tokyo). The international conference was held from 21-25 August 2017 at the Keio Plaza Hotel, Tokyo, Japan.


• Associate Editor of IET Image Processing Journal https://digital-library.theiet.org/journals/iet-ipr/editorial-board


• Faculty Adviser of The NorthCap University OSA student Chapter


• Dr. Hukum Singh has received prestigious Deokaran Award for “Glass”–2018 on January 09, 2019 at the wave International, during the Society’s 82nd annual session of the Indian Ceramic Society (CSIR-CGCRI).


• He has also received best research paper award as a first author in a year 2014.


• Outstanding reviewer of prestigious Elsevier journal, Optics and Lasers in Engineering.


• Awarded senior membership by The Optical Society (OSA) USA in year 2018.


• Mentor of DST funded project of Rs. 30.3 Lacs (Recently completed)


• Co- PI of DRDO funded research project Rs. 8.1516 lacs (Recently completed)


• Supervising M. Sc. M. Tech and Ph.D. Students

1. Google Scholar Citations:Attained an h-index of 22 , i10-index of 15
   Total citations: 755 (Till  November, 2020) https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=qGHhvJwAAAAJ&hl=en


2. Research Gate Citations: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hukum_Singh


3. Scopus Citations: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=55627877662


4. Mendeley Citations:  https://www.mendeley.com/stats/author?dgcid=raven_md_stats_email&event_id=144115188151652213


5. Services to Research: Reviewer for reputed International journals:
   Optics Lasers & Engg., Optics Express, J. Optical Society of America , Optics and Laser Technology, Optik, IEEE etc

• OSA (The Optical Society of America)


• SPIE (Society of Photo optical Instrumentation Engineers)


• OSI (Optical Society of India)


• ISTE (Indian Society of Technical Education)

Dr Sunita Sharma has more than five years of teaching and fourteen years of research experience. She has done her doctoral studies on “Study of Nonlinear Properties in Materials of Optical Waveguide” in collaboration with Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore. Dr Sharma was selected as DST-JRF, DST & CSIR-SRF and had established z-scan setup in the research lab during her PhD. As a post-doc in different premier research institutes of India, she has worked on “Role of Nanomaterials in Solar Cells”. Dr Sharma has participated in various conferences and ICTP activities throughout India, Singapore and Africa. Dr Sharma has authored 55 research papers and four chapters in edited books. The highest impact factor of her publication is 6.7 with 98 citations.She is a reviewer of many reputed journals in the field of materials science.

At present, she is program co-ordinator of BSc(H)Physics and supervising undergraduate, postgraduate and 2 PhD students for their research work.

Areas of Research: Nanomaterials, Solar cells, Optical limiters, Sensors and Lasers.

Hands on Experience on: Nd:YAG Laser, Copper-vapor laser, DSC, XRD,Diffused reflectance spectrometer, Monochromator, Photodiodes and photomultiplier tubes, UV-VIS absorption spectrometer, Solar Simulator, Raman spectrophotometer, Double Zone Tabulator Furnace, LCR meter, SEM, screen printing and Spin Coater

Membership: International Association of Advanced Materials, Sweden.
Materials Research Society, Singapore.
Photonics Society of India.

Academic Experience
Dr Bharti Arora has been associated with the university since July, 2013. She has almost seven years of teaching experience including Hansraj College and Lady Irwin College (University of Delhi) in past. She is actively involved in teaching Engineering Chemistry, Environmental Studies and Green Technology at NCU. She also received an appreciation for excellent classroom teaching by Head, ASIC Accreditation, UK (Prof John Wilson) in 2016 at NCU.

Fellowships/Awards
A meritorious student throughout from University of Delhi, Dr Arora has been awarded “UGC Research Fellowship in Science for Meritorious Students”. She was also selected for the “Jawaharlal Nehru Scholarships for Doctoral Research Studies” in 2008.

Research Areas/ Interest
Biophysical and Biochemical aspects of Nucleic Acids, DNA Polymorphism and Interaction studies, Structural Biology, Biopolymers, Ionic liquids, Bioinformatics.
She is well acquainted with UV-visible & Circular Dichroism (CD) Spectroscopy, Gel Electrophoresis and Bioinformatic software/tools

Dr Aditya Sharma is associated with university since 29th January, 2014 as a Chemistry faculty. She completed her PhD in Chemistry from IIT Delhi. She pursued her doctoral research work in collaboration with National Physical Laboratory, Delhi, as a CSIR-JRF/SRF recipient. She continually qualified UGC-CSIR-NET/JRF exam in Chemistry (Dec. 2007, June 2008, Dec. 2008). She secured first position in Chemistry at her graduation level and was highest scorer in Organic Chemistry at IITD during her PhD.

Aditya has published eight research articles (seven first authored), all in SCI-indexed, peer reviewed international journals (ACS, RSC, AIP and Elsevier publications) having an aggregate SCI impact factor of about 37.5. Her publications carry highest SCI-impact factors at NCU. She has total citations above 230 with h index of 7 and i10 index of 6 for her publications (Google scholar profile). She has presented her work in 12 international conferences and delivered talk on her research work at the international conference organized by IIT-Delhi. The article entitled “Nanopatterned Cadmium Selenide Langmuir–Blodgett Platform for Leukemia Detection” authored by her, was the research highlight of Nature India (doi:10.1038/nindia.2012.60) & IITD website. She is currently guiding one PhD student at NCU.

Dr Aditya is actively involved in research work and has been awarded the project under Young Scientist scheme on her research profile, which is the first project awarded from DST-SERB to NCU. She is the project investigator in ongoing research project since 25th July, 2016 entitled “Lateral flow assay strip sensor development for non–invasive point of care diagnosis of urinary tract infection” worth Rs 42,02000/-.

Electrochemical Biosensor, Lateral flow assay, Cancer and Urinary Tract Infection diagnosis, Nanomaterial synthesis, Langmuir-Blodgett films. Well acquainted with UV-Visible & FTIR spectrometer, Electrochemical analyzer, Langmuir Blodgett trough, Contact angle meter, Zetasizer and Gel Electrophoresis.

She is a Life member of Chemical Research Society of India, The Indian Science Congress Association, Indian Biophysical Society, and Materials Research Society of India.

Dr Tejpal Singh Chundawat obtained his Masters degree (Organic Chemistry) from the Mohan Lal Sukhadia University in 2007. As a Research Associate he spent two years (2007-2009) in R&D Centre at Jubilant Chemsys Ltd., Noida. Dr Tejpal was awarded Doctoral degree (Organic Synthesis) by the Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi in 2014.

He has Six publications in various international journals and has presented eight papers in national and international conferences. His areas of interest are stereo-selective catalysts and chiral catalysts in synthetic chemistry.

Areas of Research: Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Fluorine Chemistry, Metal catalyzed organic synthesis, Stereo-selective catalysts and chiral catalysts for asymmetric synthesis and Green techniques and environment friendly approach for organic synthesis

Research Publications: Publications in International Journals: 13

Projects Completed: DRDO funded project, entitled “Development of Polyurethane Coating for Blast Mitigation”
Rs. 9,99,720/-

Research Guidance: Supervision of Doctoral Thesis, under progress- 06

Dr. Anshu is working as an Assistant Professor (Sr. Scale) in the Department of Applied Sciences since 11th July, 2016. She has 11 years of teaching and 10 years of research experience. She has completed her Ph.D. degree in 2016 from Banasthali University, India in Applied Mathematics under the guidance of Prof. Deepa Sinha, South Asian University. She has done MTech in Computer Science and M.Sc. in Mathematics from Banasthali University in 2007 and 2009 and since then she has been serving several Institutions for graduate courses, particularly Geeta Group of Institutions (2009-2011), Samalkha Group of Institutions and Rameesh Group of Institutions Greater Noida (2011-2012).

Her Ph.D. Dissertation “Excursion of Graph Structures through Algorithms” under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Deepa Sinha. She was selected under ‘Visiting Students Study Program’, (higher mathematics) at Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad. She is also a part of ART of LIVING family since 2009 and actively participating in meditation. She has several research papers to her account in journals of high impact factor.

Consultancy and Other Activities:

Guiding 3 research scholars on Graph theory and Algorithms, Soft Computing and Data Analysis.
Guided 1 research scholar who defended her Phd Thesis on 14th November, 2019.
Guided 6 M. Sc Maths dissertations and several projects based on Graph theory, Soft Computing, Data Analysis, Algorithms etc.
Published high quality research papers in international journals and conferences.
Professional member and Advisor of Professional Society ENACTUS.
One year industrial experience at STMicroelectronics, Greater Noida where she works as an application manager and works on REMEDY and EPM tool by IBM.
Mentor of Mathemactive Society of NCU.
Reviewer and Editor in various reputed International and National Journals.
Area of Expertise: Discrete Mathematics, Graph Theory, Algorithm Development, Computational techniques.

She has brilliant academic record and has been an outstanding student throughout her studies. She secured first position in Post Graduation. She was Topper in Tenth standard in all streams in school. She had won cash prize and Scholarship in Science Scholarship Competition . She Assisted the Food Committee in the ‘International Conference on Operator Theory and Related Areas’ held at the Department of Mathematics, University of Delhi, during January 9-12, 2008. Her research domain includes Algebraic Coding theory ,Information Theory and Cryptography.She earned her doctoral degree at the Department of Mathematics, Delhi University on the topic ‘Generalised Reed-Muller Codes’. She is presently interested in exploring new dimensions in her field . She has presented 3 research papers in national and international conferences.

She has published several research papers in reputed international journals including SCI journals. She is associated with the University since Jan 2017. She is member of various reputed Mathematical Societies including American Mathematical society , Life member of Indian Science Congress Association, Life member of Ramanujan Mathematical Society, Life member of Indian Mathematical Society . She has almost 10 years teaching and 10 years of research experience.

Areas of Research: Algebraic Coding theory ,Information Theory and Cryptography.

Research Records: Publications in International Journals: 9
International Conferences attended : 5
National Conferences attended: 12
Reviewer in reputed journals MATH SciNet and Zentrablatt
Mathematics subject expert in CBSE UDAAN project since 2015

Dr. Rajni holds a very attractive academic record throughout the course of her study. She has done her Ph.D in the field of Numerical Analysis in IIT Roorkee in the year 2018. She completed her graduation and post graduation from CCS university, Meerut. During the period of research work, she has published various research papers in the international journals of repute. She qualified National Eligibility Test (JRF) in 2012. She got DST travel award for presenting a research paper in international conference on applied mathematics ICOME-2017 held in Turkey.

Workshops and Seminars:

Computational Techniques for Differential equations with Matlab (CTDE-2015), July 02-06,2015, Department of Mathematics, IIT Roorkee.

International Conference on Mathematics and Applications (ICMA-2017), D.U. April, 26-28, 2017, presented a paper entitled “A Bernstein Polynomial Differential Quadrature Method for Numerical Solutions of Kawahara Equation”.

Annual Foundation School (AFS-I) organized in IIT Delhi by National Center for Mathematics (A joint center of TIFR and IIT Bombay), December 04-30, 2017.

Areas of Interest: Numerical solutions of PDEs, Numerical Methods, B-spline functions, Berstein Polynomials

Dr. Tarul Garg received her M.Sc. degree in Mathematics from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee in 2013. She completed her Ph.D. degree in Approximation Theory (Pure Mathematics) from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee in September 2018. She joined The NorthCap University, Gurugram in July 2018. Presently, she is serving as Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Sciences.

She was awarded with “Best Presentation Award” in the “ICMAA 2018: 20th International Conference on Mathematical Analysis and Applications” held in London, United Kingdom during January 18-19, 2018. She plays a role of teaching assistant for the course of Numerical Linear Algebra in NPTEL online certification course January-April, 2018. She has six months experience of teaching in the Applied Science department of Krishna Institute of Engineering and Technology (KIET), Ghaziabad from July, 2013 to December, 2013. She got a National Board of Higher Mathematics (NBHM) Fellowship from National Board of Higher Mathematics from July, 2011 to June, 2013. She did her summer internship at IISER Mohali sponsored by Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore during May-July, 2012.

Research Gate link: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tarul_Garg2

Research Publications till now:

Publications in International Journals: 3

Paper presented in International Conferences (India and Abroad): 2

Attended International Workshop and Conferences (India): 3

Dr. Sanjay yadav received his M.Sc. degree in mathematics from C.C.S.University Uttar Pradesh India. He completed his PhD degree from IIT Roorkee in October 2015. Presently, he is working as an assistant professor in the department of Applied Sciences, The NorthCap University.

Dr.Yadav had 5 years of teaching experience and published 5 research papers in international peer reviewed journals. He has actively participated in more than 8 International/National conferences to present his work.

Dr. Neha Gupta received her M.Sc. degree in Mathematics from Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut in 2014. She completed her PhD degree from IIT Roorkee in July 2019. She joined The NorthCap University, Gurugram in July 2019. Presently, she is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Sciences.

Her doctoral thesis entitled ‘Numerical Investigation of Ventilation Problems with Discrete Heat and Contaminant Sources’ is related to the numerical investigation of various aspects of fluid flow, heat and mass transfer within ventilated enclosures equipped with different types of thermal and boundary conditions. This area is of her primary interest because of its wide range of applications in various industrial and commercial heating or cooling applications like cooling of electronic devices, thermal comfort, drying technologies, space heating/cooling, smoke control in tunnels, pollutant removing and thermal design of buildings. Dr. Neha has published 10 research papers in international peer reviewed journals. She has actively participated in 5 International/National conferences to present her research work. Dr. Neha Gupta was awarded with “Student Travel Grant from Department of Science and Technology (DST), India for attending ‘3rd Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference (TFEC-2018)’ from 4-7 March 2018 held at Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.

Area of Expertise: Computational Fluid Dynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Numerical Analysis, Ventilation problems, Finite Volume method, Modelling and Simulation.

Research Publications: 10

Paper presented in conferences National/International – 4

Dr Arjun Singh received M.Sc degree in Physics from University of Delhi in 2007. He completed M.Tech. from Thapar University Patiala followed by PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 2016. After two year of postdoctoral experience from India and abroad, he joined as assistant professor of physics in the Dept. of Applied Science, North Cap University, Gurugram India.

He is an experimental physicist and his research interest include printable and flexible semiconductor devices such as polymer solar cell, perovskite solar cell and thin film transistors. Dr Singh has published 13 research papers in internal peer reviewed journals. He has actively participated in 7- national and international conferences to present his work.

Area of expertise:

Semiconductor devices (polymer Solar cell, perovskite solar cell, OLEDs Thin film transistors (TFT’s) )

Research Publications-13

Research work presented in Conferences – 07

Dr. Anubhav Raghav is working as an Assistant Professor at North Cap University, Gurugram, Haryana. He has obtained graduation degree from Rohilkhand University and Post graduation degree from Aligarh Muslim University in year 2010 and 2012 subsequently. He has qualified Gate, NET, JEST. He has worked in Inter University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi. He has completed his Ph.D. from IIT Roorkee in October 2018. During his Ph.D. he has worked on DST-DAAD project (Jointly with IITR and University of Bayreuth, Germany). He has published various research articles in peer reviewed Journal. https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=PtkslREAAAAJ&hl=en. He has worked in National Physical Laboratory as a research associate from October 2018 to September 2019.

Area of Interest:-

Perovskite Solar Cell, Quantum Dots, Polymer Solar Cells, Dye Sensitized Solar Cell
Nanomaterials Synthesis, Charecterization and applications, Nanofibers