Dr. Tahseen Amin Khan Qasuria

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Dr. Tahseen Amin Khan Qasuria

Assistant Professor

Qualifications: Ph.D Electronic Engineering
Research Interests: Organic Semiconductors, Photovoltaic, Sensors Fabrication, Telemetry Systems.

Research Interest

Organic Electronics, Semiconductors, Photovoltaic, Sensors Fabrication, Telemetry Systems,

Association

  • Dec-2004 – 24 Nov 2020-Registered Engineer, Pakistan Engineering Council
  • 25-Nov 2020- Professional Engineer, Pakistan Engineering Council
  • 12-August-2011 Member IEEE.

 Local Funded Research Projects

  1. Design and Fabrication of Task oriented Sensors for Defense Industry, 17799/KPK/NRPU/R&D/HEC/2022, HEC NRPU, Worth 14.02 Million Rs, 2022. (PI)
  2. Sensor Fabrication through Inkjet Printing Technique, 5548/KPK/NRPU/R&D/HEC/2016, HEC, NRPU Funded Project, Worth 10.8 Million Rs, 2016. (Co-PI)
  3. Pak-China Science Foundation Project, worth 1.5 Million, Fabrication of the Lithium-Ion Batteries, 2017. (Volunteer)
  4. IEEE USA funded FYP Project (Smart Floor Cleaning Robot), worth 500 $, Co-Supervisor. This Project also won the 1st Position in EMCOT, 2015 held at COMSAT Islamabad, May 2015.
    1. It is also Published in IEEE Magazine, (Uman Khalid, Muhammad Faizan Baloch, Haseeb Haider, Muhammad Usman Sardar, Muhammad Faisal Khan, Abdul Basit Zia and Tahseen Amin Khan Qasuria,“Smart Floor Cleaning Robot (CLEAR)”, Student Application Paper, IEEE Standards University E-Magazine, volume 6, issue 1, March 2016.
    2. This Project Won the Innovation Award at 4th Invention to Innovation Summit 2015, Organized by Institute of Research Promotion Pakistan (IRP) in collaboration with (ORIC)-Punjab University, Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF) and IEEE –young Professionals Lahore, 4-5 March 2015.
  5. Got the HEC travel Grant of worth 202125.00 Rs for the conference presentation of my research work in Malaysia, 2013. 
  6.  Got the HEC travel Grant of worth 178506.00 Rs. for the conference presentation of my research work in Turkey, 2015.
  7. Got training Grant from GIK Institute for the “International Training Course on Applied Vacuum Technologies”, worth 8000/00Rs August 26-28, 2014.
  8. Got the Grant for the participation in “National Engineering Robotics Contest, 2014 from GIK Institute, worth 15000/00RS, 2014.  
  9. Got funding from National Grassroots ICT Research Initiative (NGIRI) for the project, “Design and Fabrication of Automated Embroidery Machine”, Project # NGIRI-2020-10166, worth 35000/00Rs., April 2020.
  10. Got funding from National Grassroots ICT Research Initiative (NGIRI) for the project, “Design and Fabrication 6 DoF acoustic robotic Arm”, Project # NGIRI-2021-4350, worth 23000/00Rs., May 2021

International Funded Research Projects

Got International funding in collaboration with Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI), University of Kebangsaan, Malaysia worth 40500 RM as Co-PI, “Title: Realization of Cost-Effective Broad-Band Ternary Blend of Phthalocyanine based Optimized Organic Solar Cell”, Grant No: GGPM-2020-048, 1/10/2020-31/01/2023, (2020).

Publications

Journal

                                 

  1. Murtaza, Kh. S. Karimov, Zubair Ahmad, I. Qazi, M. Mahroof-Tahir, T. A. Khan, T. Amin, “Humidity sensitive field effect transistor” Journal of Semiconductor, Vol. 31, No. 5, 2010. (ISI Indexed)

 

  1. S. Karimov, T. A. Qasuria, Zubair Ahmad, “Impedance Hygrometer based on Cellulose and CuPc” Journal of Semiconductor. Vol. 31, No. 6, 2010. (ISI Indexed)

 

  1. S. Karimov, T. A. Qasuria, “Cellulose and PEPC based Humidity Sensor for Remote Sensing” Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials, Vol. 12, No. 8, p. 1743 – 1746, 2010. (IF=0.412) + ISI Indexed

 

  1. S. Karimov, M. Saleem, T. A. Qasuria, M. Farooq, “Surface type humidity Sensor based on Cellulose-PEPC for Telemetry Systems” Journal of Semiconductor. Vol. 32, No. 1, 2011. (ISI Indexed)

 

  1. S. Karimov, T. A. Qasuria, “Displacement sensitive organic field effect transistor for telemetry systems applications” Measurements, vol. 45, pp. 41-46, 2011. (IF=0.836) + ISI Indexed)

 

  1. S. Karimov, M. Saleem, M. Mahroof-Tahir, T. A. Qasuria, Adam Khan and T.A. Khan, “Displacement-sensitive organic field effect transistor” International journal of Electronics, Vol.99, No.1, pp. 91-95, 2012 (IF=0.440) + ISI Indexed

 

  1. Uman Khalid, Muhammad Faizan Baloch, Haseeb Haider, Muhammad Usman Sardar, Muhammad Faisal Khan, Abdul Basit Zia and Tahseen Amin Khan Qasuria,“Smart Floor Cleaning Robot (CLEAR)”, Student Application Paper, IEEE Standards University E-Magazine, volume 6, issue 1, March 2016.

 

  1. S. Karimov, M. Abid, Dur-e-Zehra Baig, Syed A Moiz, Adam Khan, T. A. Qasuria, Khakim M. Akhmedov, Muhammad Ali and Umair Rao, “Combined Photo-Electric Cell and Thermoelectric Generator for Demonstrative Purposes” Academia Journal of Scientific Research 5(1): 022-033, January 2017 DOI: 10.15413/ajsr.2017.0160, ISSN 2315-7712, 2017.

 

  1. T. A. Qasuria, S. Alam, S. A. Qasuria, N. A. Qureshi, K. Islam, Kh. S. Karimov, “Insitu calibration of humidity with saimultaneous effect of resistance and capacitance at different frequencies” International Journal of Engineering and Applied Science, Vol. 4, No. 8, pp.63-66, 2017. (IF=2.14)

 

  1. Karimov, Kh and Ahmedov, Kh. and Ahmed, N and Qasuria, TA and Saeed, A and Bajwa, BA, Development and testing of a demonstration solar thermoelectric hybrid installation, Reports of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan, Volume 50, Issue 9, pp- 145-150 (2017).

 

  1. Qasuria, T.A.., Alam, S. and Qureshi, N.A., Fabrication of Inverted Perovskite Solar Cell with Cadmium Sulphide As Electron Transport Layer, International Journal Of Applied And Fundamental Research, Vol. 3, 2018. (IF:0.277)

 

  1. Khasan S.Karimov,  Zubair Ahmad, M.Imran Khan, Khalid J.Siddiqui,   A. QasuriaS.Zameer  Abbass , M.Usman, Aziz-Ur Rehman, Elastic layered rubber-graphene composite fabricated by rubbing-in technology for the multi-functional sensors, Heliyon, Volume 5, Issue 1, January 2019. (Cite Score=1.66)  (ISI Indexed)

 

  1. Tahseen Amin Qasuria, Noshin Fatima, Khasan Karimov, and Muhammad Imran Khan. “Poles apart gravity based planar organic multifunctional sensor using cobalt (II) phthalocyanine.” Materials Research Express, Volume 6, Number 9 (2019)  (IF: 1.449). + ISI Indexed

 

  1. T. A. Qasuria, K. Islam, N. A. Qureshi, S. A. Qasuriac, S. Alam, Khasan S. Karimov, “Hybrid thermoelectric photovoltaic cell based on organic-inorganic heterojunction” Journal Of Optoelectronics And Advanced Materials, Vol. 21, No. 7-8, July – August, p. 455 – 458, 2019. (IF=0.588) + ISI Indexed

 

  1. T. A. Qasuria, S. Alam, Kh. S. Karimov, N. Fatima, Y. S. Alharthi, H. F. Alharbi, N. H. Alharthi, N. Amin, Md. Akhtaruzzaman. Stable perovskite based photodetector in impedance and capacitance mode, Results in Physics, Volume 15, December 2019. (IF= 3.042) + ISI Indexed

 

  1. S. Karimov, N. Fatima, T. A. Qasuria, K. J. Siddiqui, M. M. Bashir, Y. S. Alharthi, H. F. Alharbi, N. H. Alharthi, N. Amin, Md. Akhtaruzzaman, Innovative semi-transparent photo-thermoelectric cells based on bismuth antimony telluride alloy, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Volume 816, 5 March 2020. (IF=4.175) + ISI Indexed

 

  1. Fatima, N., Karimov, K.S., Qasuria, T.A. and Ibrahim, M.A., “A novel and stable way for energy harvesting from Bi2Te3Se alloy based semitransparent photo-thermoelectric module. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Volume 849, 156702, 2020. (I.F = 4.621) + ISI Indexed

 

  1. Noshin Fatima, Tahseen Amin Qasuria, Adib Ibrahim, “A brief review on smart grid residential network schemes”, Sains Malaysiana, Vol. 89, Issue. 12, pp-2989-2996, 2020 (IF=1.009) + ISI Indexed

 

  1. T. A. Qasuria, N. Fatima, Kh. S. Karimov, M. A. Ibrahim, “A Novel and Stable Ultraviolet and Infrared Intensity Sensor in Impedance/Capacitance Modes Fabricated from Degraded CH3NH3PbI3-xClx Perovskite Materials“, Journal of Materials Research and Technology, Vol-9, Issue-6, pp 12795-12803, 2020. IF (5.316) + ISI Indexed

 

  1. Iqbal Nadeem, Sajid Memoon, Rahman Khalid, Amin Qasuria Tahseen, Muhammad Shakeel, Ahmad Salman, and Amin Mohsin, “Fabrication of Temperature- and Humidity-Independent Silver Nanoparticle’s Carbon Composite-Based Strain Sensor Through Additive Manufacturing Process”, 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing, https://doi.org/10.1089/3dp.2021.0032, (IF=5.449)

 

Conference

 

  1. Kh. S. Karimov, I. Qazi, M. Mahroof-Tahir, I. Murtaza, T. Amin, “opto Electronic Properties of ITO/CuPc/NiPc/Al and ITO/NiPc/CuPc/Al Double junction Cells” Conference Proceeding, ICEENG, Egypt, p.EE014-1-EE014-13, 2008. 
  2. Kh. S. Karimov, T. A. Qasuria, Zubair Ahmad, “Impedance Hygrometer based on Natural Organic Material” Conference Proceeding, WSEAS Application of Electrical Engineering, Penang, Malaysia, pp. 35-39, 2010.
  3. Kh. S. Karimov, F. A. Khalid, M. Tariq Saeed, T. A. Qasuria, Z. M. Karieva, “Temperature Sensing Properties of Organic-Inorganic Ag/p-CuPc/n-GaAs/Ag Cell” International Symposium on Vacuum Science & Technology, ISVST, Pakistan, pp03-05, 2010.
  4. T. A. Qasuria, Kh. S. Karimov, “Organic-Inorganic Ag/p-CuPc/n-GaAs/Ag         Temperature Sensor for Remote Sensing applications”4th International conference    on functional materials and devices, Penang, Malaysia, 2013.
  5. T. A. Qasuria, Kh. S. Karimov, “Organic-Inorganic Photoconductive Cell for Remote Sensing Applications”, 3rd International conference on nanotechnology, Istanbul, Turkey, 2015.
  6. T. A. Qasuria, “Emerging Trends in the Area of Solar Cell Fabrication”, Summer Webinar Series, IEEE, PAF-KIET, Karachi, Pakistan, 2020.
  7. T. A. Qasuria, Zeeshan Ashraf, Anique Ahmed, “In situ electrical properties of wide range humidity sensor based on PEDOT: PSS/Bi2Te3”, 18th International Bhurban Conference on Applied Science and Technology (IBCAST), Islamabad, Pakistan, 2021.
  8. T. A. Qasuria, “International Seminar on Sustainable technologies in Modern Energy: A Roadmap Towards Green Economy” Invited Speaker, 7th -8th March, Pakistan Academy of Science, COMSAT University, Islamabad, Pakistan, 2022
  9. T. A. Qasuria, “The Future Perspective of Electronic Industry in Pakistan” Summer Webinar Series, IEEE, PAF-KIET, Karachi, Pakistan, 2023.

    International / Local Workshops                                                       

    1. Attended a 5 days workshop on “ Research Capacity Building Program for PI”,  Organized by HEC and British Council, Karachi, Pakistan,  23rd to 27th May, 2022.
    2. Attended a 1 day IEEE workshop on “Research Management with IEEE Xplore: Tips & Practices, Organizers IEEE, 11 May, 2022.
    3. Attended a 4 days Workshop on “Workshop on Project Management Principles” Held at Institute of space Technologies, Islamabad, 27-30 Dec, 2022
    4. Attended a two days Workshop on “OBE & Redefining the Teaching-learning Process to Incorporative learning strategies – Designing and Assessing Complex Engineering Problems, Open Ended Labs and CQI, Organized by GIK Institute, 4th to 5th March, 2022. 
    5. Attended workshop on “Effective Communication Skills” organized by National Productivity Organization, under the Ministry of Industries and Production, March 2019.
    6. Attended Workshop on Quality Assurance of MS/PhD Program from Internal and External Quality Assurance Perspective, GIK Institute, Topi, Pakistan, 2018.
    7. Conducted a Workshop on Photolithography at GIK Institute, December 2108.
    8. Attended National Workshop on Applied Vacuum Technologies, Islamabad, 22-24 December 2014.
Master Thesis Supervised
  1. Fabrication and Characterization of Thermoelectric Thin Films of n-type Bi2Te3 Using Thermal Evaporation, 2014. (Mr. Mustufa Haider)
  2. Fabrication and Characterization of Thermoelectric Based Heterojunction Solar Cells, 2016. (Mr. Kashif Islam)
  3. Fabrication of Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells with Cadmium Sulphide as Electron Transport Layer, 2018. (Mr. Shahid Ahmad)
  4. Fabrication of cost-effective Perovskite solar cells using carbon counter electrodes, 2018. (Mr. Nabeel Qureshi)
  5. Fabrication and Characterization of Stable Surface Type Sensors for Room and Harsh Environmental Conditions,  Jan 2021 (Mr. Zeeshan Ahmad)
  6. Fabrication and Characterization of Highly Sensitive Dual Band UV/ IR Optical Sensors, Mr. Aneeq Ahmad, June 2021.

Master Thesis Co-Supervised

  1. Fabrication of Chemical Sensor from meta materials, 2017. (Mr. Usman Ahmad from Faulty of Electronics Engineering (FEE), GIK Institute)
  2. Fabrication and Characterization of AgNPs-Carbon Composite Based Self Temperature Compensated Strain Sensor through Additive Manufacturing, 2019. (Mr. Nadeem Iqbal from Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (FME), GIK Institute)

 MS Thesis Evaluated at National / International level

  1. Evaluated MS Thesis Title “To study the effects of Antimony in (Tin Antimony Sulphide) Thin Films Solar Cells, Ms. Saima Jamal, Institute of Physics and Electronics, University of Peshawar, 2014.
  2. Evaluated MS thesis Title, Fabrication And Characterization Of Furfurylidine Acetone Based Hetrojunction Schottky Diodes, Ehtaramul Haq, University of Peshawar, 2016 Viva-Voce 2017.
  3. Evaluated MS thesis of Mr. Nouman Khan Title, Structural, Optical and Impedance Spectroscopy study of Thin Film of Polyaniline (PANI)/ZnO Nano composite, University of Peshawar, 2018.
  4. Evaluated MS Thesis of Mr. Masood Khan Title “Fabrication and Electrical Characterization of Silicon / Polyanilne + Zinc Oxide Heterostructure Schottky Diode”, University of Peshawar, 2018.
  5. Evaluated MS thesis Title, Fabrication And Characterization Of Multifunctional Sensor Based On Dptp Dye Thin Film, Asad Ullah, University of Peshawar, 2019.
  6. Evaluated MS thesis Title, Fabrication And Electrical Characterization Of Silicon/Polyanilne+Zinc Oxide Heterostructure Schottky Diode, Shah Khan, University of Peshawar, 2018. Viva conducted 2019
  7. Evaluated MS thesis Title, Fabrication And Electrical Characterization Of Silicon/Polyanilne + Zinc Oxide Heterostructure Schottky Diode, Shahid Zaman, University of Peshawar, 2019.

PhD Thesis Evaluated at National / International level

  1. Research Committee member for PhD program of Mr. Nouman Ali, Reg No-11-UET-PhD-CP-23, Committee was formulated by Vice Chancellor of UET Taxila, 2012.
  2. Instructor of PhD Qualifying Exam of Mr. Mehran Bashir, EE-1739, Faculty of Electronics Engineering, GIK Institute, 2018.
  3. Instructor of PhD Qualifying Exam of Mr. Umair Asghar, Faculty of Electronics Engineering, GIK Institute, 2018.
  4. Member of the PhD Research Title Defense committee of Mr. Muhammad Riaz, Reg. No. ES-1632, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, GIK Institute, 2018.
  5. Member of the PhD. Qualifying Examination Committee as Expert External Examiner of Mr. Muhammad Shakeel, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, GIK Institute, 2019.
  6. Member of the PhD Qualifying Examination Committee, Mr. Adul Muneem, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, GIK Institute, 2019.
  7. Member of the Faculty Graduate Research Committee, Evaluated the PhD thesis of Mr. Riaz Ahmad to assess his research work, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, GIK Institute, 2019.
  8. Got invited for the Final Defense of the PhD thesis title, Fabrication and Characterization of Graphene Based Nanocomposite Thin Film Electronic Devices, Ishrat Rahim, University of Peshawar, 2019.
  9. Member of the PhD Qualifying Examination Committee of Ahsan Nadeem, Reg. No. EE-1805, Faculty of Electronics Engineering, GIK Institute, 2020.
  10. Evaluated PhD Thesis of Mr. Ahsan Nadeem, Reg. No. EE-1805, Faculty of Electronics Engineering, GIK Institute, 2022

Courses Developed at MS and PhD Level

  • Thin Film Technology (Offered this course for the first time in FES for graduate students in 2014)
  • Organic Solar Cells: Materials and Devices. (Offered this course for the first time in FES for graduate Students in 2021.

Courses Developed at Undergraduate level

  • Prepared a summary to add a new course in the undergraduate curriculum with the name Engineering Economy.  2016 
  • Microelectronics Manufacturing Engineering ES-466 (A new course has been added to the semiconductor stream, 2016.

Developed / Refurbished / Repaired Research Lab 

  1. Functionalize the Photolithography Lab, 2012-2015 (Time Taken To develop the Lab) and Incharge to till date.
  2. Prepared, Monitored and Supervised the Service, repair and up-gradation of FES Research lab Equipment, 2012.
  3. Drafted a Three-Year Plan for the purchase of Lab. Equipment for FES Faculty. 2013
  4. Functionalized the Vibrating Sample Magnetometer Lab, 2016.

New Undergraduate Lab Development 

  • Designed a new lab for the Undergrad students of Engineering Sciences with the title, (ES-463 Characterization of Materials Lab), 2017.
Undergraduate Final Year Projects
  1. Design and Implementation of a Physical Organic Sensor for Telemetry System Applications, 2013.
  2. Maximum Power Point Tracking in Solar System (Load Optimization Technique), 2013.
  3. Design and Fabrication of the Humidity Sensors, 2013.
  4. Design of the Burner Management System for industrial application 2014.
  5. GRASP (Gesture controlled Robotic Arm for Special Purposes), 2014.
  6. Design of chip by using Photolithographic process, 2015.
  7. Design of a thin film transparent solar cell, 2015.
  8. Autonomous Phantom Quad copter, 2015.
  9. Artificial Nerve Impulse Simulator, 2016.
  10. Cost Effective Solution for the Grid Tie Inverter, 2016.
  11.  3-D Laser Scanner for the Archeological and Architectural Purposes, 2017.
  12. Energy Harvesting Flooring, 2018.
  13. Hybrid Solar–wind energy System, 2018.
  14. Design and Fabrication of autonomous drone flight controller, 2019.
  15. Design and Fabrication of automated embroidery machine, 2020. (Funded Project by Ignite)
  16. Design and Fabrication of the IOT base Smart Irrigation System, 2022.
Patents

· Khasan S. Karimov, Kh.M.Akhmedov , Tahseen Amin Khan Qasuria et.al.” Hybrid solar thermoelectric collector”, registered in Patent Department of the Republic of Tajikistan, 2016.

Funded Research Projects
  1. Design and Fabrication of Task oriented Sensors for Defense Industry, 17799/KPK/NRPU/R&D/HEC/2022, HEC NRPU, Worth 14.02 Million Rs, 2022. (PI)
  2. Sensor Fabrication through Inkjet Printing Technique, 5548/KPK/NRPU/R&D/HEC/2016, HEC, NRPU Funded Project, Worth 10.8 Million Rs, 2016. (Co-PI)
  3. Pak-China Science Foundation Project, worth 1.5 Million, Fabrication of the Lithium-Ion Batteries, 2017. (Volunteer)
  4. IEEE USA funded FYP Project (Smart Floor Cleaning Robot), worth 500 $, Co-Supervisor. This Project also won the 1st Position in EMCOT, 2015 held at COMSAT Islamabad, May 2015.
    1. It is also Published in IEEE Magazine, (Uman Khalid, Muhammad Faizan Baloch, Haseeb Haider, Muhammad Usman Sardar, Muhammad Faisal Khan, Abdul Basit Zia and Tahseen Amin Khan Qasuria,“Smart Floor Cleaning Robot (CLEAR)”, Student Application Paper, IEEE Standards University E-Magazine, volume 6, issue 1, March 2016.
    2. This Project Won the Innovation Award at 4th Invention to Innovation Summit 2015, Organized by Institute of Research Promotion Pakistan (IRP) in collaboration with (ORIC)-Punjab University, Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF) and IEEE –young Professionals Lahore, 4-5 March 2015.
  5. Got the HEC travel Grant of worth 202125.00 Rs for the conference presentation of my research work in Malaysia, 2013. 
  6.  Got the HEC travel Grant of worth 178506.00 Rs. for the conference presentation of my research work in Turkey, 2015.
  7. Got training Grant from GIK Institute for the “International Training Course on Applied Vacuum Technologies”, worth 8000/00Rs August 26-28, 2014.
  8. Got the Grant for the participation in “National Engineering Robotics Contest, 2014 from GIK Institute, worth 15000/00RS, 2014.  
  9. Got funding from National Grassroots ICT Research Initiative (NGIRI) for the project, “Design and Fabrication of Automated Embroidery Machine”, Project # NGIRI-2020-10166, worth 35000/00Rs., April 2020.
  10. Got funding from National Grassroots ICT Research Initiative (NGIRI) for the project, “Design and Fabrication 6 DoF acoustic robotic Arm”, Project # NGIRI-2021-4350, worth 23000/00Rs., May 2021

International Funded Research Projects

  1. Got International funding in collaboration with Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI), University of Kebangsaan, Malaysia worth 40500 RM as Co-PI, “Title: Realization of Cost-Effective Broad-Band Ternary Blend of Phthalocyanine based Optimized Organic Solar Cell”, Grant No: GGPM-2020-048, 1/10/2020-31/01/2023, (2020).Conducted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) Activities
    1. CPD Activity of point 1“Workshop on Photolithography”, 2015.
    2. CPD activity of Point 1 “Workshop on IC Design and Fabrication”, 2016.
    3. CPD activity of Point 1 “Workshop on Semiconductor Device Fabrication”, 2017.
    4. CPD activity of Point 1 “Workshop on Photolithography”, 2018.
    5. CPD activity of Point 1 “Workshop on IC Fabrication”, 2019.
    6. CPD Activity of point 1“Workshop on Photolithography”, 2020.
    7. CPD activity of Point 1 “Workshop on IC Design and Fabrication”, 2021.
    8. CPD activity of Point 1 “Workshop on Semiconductor Device Fabrication”, 2022

University-Industry Linkage Program

· Currently working on the research Project of University-Industry Linkage Program between GIK Institute and one of the Leading Defense Organization of Pakistan.