Dr. Sk Babar Ali is currently working as Head of the Department of ECE, Aliah University. He received his PhD (Engineering) from Jadavpur University. His research interests include electronic nose and tongue, QCM, MOS and TENG sensor, pattern recognition and signal processing.

Education

• Ph.D (Engineering), Jadavpur University, India 
• M.Tech, Jadavpur University, India 

Teaching Experience

• As Associate Professor at Aliah University, Kolkata, India from February 2021 to till date.
• As Assistant Professor at Future Institute of Engineering and Management, Sonarpur, Kolkata, India from August 2010 to February 2021.

Industrial Experience

As a Sr.Technician at Caldyne Automatics Limited (A Subsidiary of EXIDE Industries Ltd.), Kolkata, India from October 2004 to March 2005.

Field of Specialization

• Embedded System and Signal Communication
• Instrumentation and Signal Conditioning
• Electronic Nose and Tongue
• Sensors and Measurement System

Courses Taught/Teaching

• Microprocessor and Microcontroller
• Embedded System
• Computer Architecture
• Control System
• Electrical & Electronic Measurements
• Analog & Digital Electronics
• Sensors and Industrial Instrumentation
• Signals and Networks

Research Area

• Sensors in Healthcare and Agro-industries.
• Embedded System - development and design.
• Electronic nose and tongue- development and design.
• Instrumentation and Signal Conditioning.
• Energy Harvesting System.
• NIR Spectroscopy Application

Conference Papers Published

[1] Sk Babar Ali, Barnali Ghatak, Nilava Debabhuti, Satyaki Pal, Prolay Sharma, Bipan Tudu, Rajib Bandyopadhyay, "Sensitive Detection of β-Myrcene in Mango Using Ethyl Cellulose Modified Quartz Crystal Microbalance Sensor", proceeding of Materials Today, 18 (2019), pp.1025-1032.

 [2] Barnali Ghatak, Amrita Prasad, Sk Babar Ali, Prolay Sharma, Arunangshu Ghosh, Bipan Tudu, Rajib Bandyopadhyay, “Selective and sensitive detection of fruit aroma using a molecularly imprinted polymer based piezoelectric quartz sensor”, 16th International Symposium on Electronic Nose, Dijon, France (ISOEN-2015), pp. 256-257.

[3] Barnali Ghatak, Sk Babar Ali, Nilava Debabhuti, Prolay Sharma, Bipan Tudu, Prasenjit Kundu,  Rajib Bandyopadhyay. Discrimination of maturity stages of Indian tomato using electronic tongue. International Conference on Emerging Technologies in Agricultural Engineering, IIT Kharagpur. 2016, 1-8. ISBN: 978-81-931974-0-0.

[4] Nilava Debabhuti, Sk Babar Ali, Barnali Ghatak, Vinita Parasrampuria, Sk. Md. Rafiqul Hassan, Pranav Agarwal, Sudipto Dutta Gupta, Prolay Sharma, Bipan Tudu, Rajib Bandyopadhyay. Development of a QCM Sensor for Detection of Trans-2-hexenal in Tomatoes.  2016 International Conference on Intelligent Control Power and Instrumentation. IEEE 2016, 93-97. 

[5] Barnali Ghatak, SK Babar Ali, Prolay Sharma, Bipan Tudu, Panchanan Pramanik, Soumyo Mukherji, Rajib Bandyopadhyay, 2018, “ Selective and sensitive detection of Limonene in mango using molecularly imprinted polymer modified quartz crystal microbalance sensor”,18th International Symposium on Electronic Nose, Dijon, France (ISOEN-2019), IEEE, 2019, DOI: 10.1109/ISOEN.2019.8823318.

[6] Barnali Ghatak, Hamonta Naskar, SK. Babar Ali, Bipan Tudu, Panchanan Pramanik, Soumyo Mukherji, Rajib Bandyopadhyay, “Development of Furaneol Imprinted Polymer Based QCM sensor for Discrimination of Artificially and Naturally Ripened Mango”,18th International Symposium on Electronic Nose, Dijon, France (ISOEN-2019) IEEE, 2019, DOI: 10.1109/ISOEN.2019.8823431.

[7] Nilava Debabhuti, Prolay Sharma, Sk Babar Ali, Bipan Tudu, Rajib Bandyopadhyay, Mousumi Poddar Sarkar,  Nabarun Bhattacharyya. “Discrimination of the maturity stages of Indian mango using QCM based electronic nose”, 18th International Symposium on Electronic Nose, Dijon, France (ISOEN-2019) IEEE, 2019.

[8] Samhita Dasgupta,  Barnali Ghatak, Sanjoy Banerjee, Sk Babar Ali, Jyotsna Dei, Bijay Kumar Behera, Runu Banerjee Roy, Bipan Tudu. “Development of Linseed Oil Based Quartz Crystal Microbalance Sensor for Detection of Trimethylamine”, International Conference on Emerging Frontiers in Electrical and Electronic Technologies (ICEFEET)IEEE, 2020.

[9] Sanjoy Banerjee Barnali Ghatak, Hamonto Naskar, Sukanta Ghosh, Milan Dhara, Sk Babar Ali, Nityananda Das Bipan Tudu, Rajib Bandyopadhyay, “Discrimination of Thymoquinone Using Near Infrared Spectroscopy Technique” 2nd International Conference on Emerging Frontiers in Electrical and Electronic Technologies (ICEFEET) IEEE, 2022.

Journal Papers Published

[1] Sk Babar Ali, Barnali Ghatak, Sudipto Dutta Gupta, Nilava Debabhuti, Parthojit Chakraborty, Prolay Sharma, Arunangshu Ghosh, Bipan Tudu, Souvik Mitra, Mousumi Poddar Sarkar, Nabarun Bhattacharyya, Rajib Bandyopadhyay, Detection of 3-Carene in mango using a quartz crystal microbalance sensor, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 230 (2016) 791–800[Impact factor:7.10].

[2] Sk Babar Ali, Barnali Ghatak, Nilava Debabhuti, Prolay Sharma, Arunangshu Ghosh, Bipan Tudu, Nabarun Bhattacharyya, Rajib Bandyopadhyay, Detection of β-Caryophyllene in mango using a quartz crystal microbalance sensor, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 255 (2018) 3064–3073[Impact factor:7.10].

[3] Sk Babar Ali, Barnali Ghatak, Nilava Debabhuti, Satyaki. Pal, Prolay Sharma, Bipan Tudu, Nabarun Bhattacharyya, Rajib Bandyopadhyay. Determination of β-Myrcene Volatile in Mango by Quartz Crystal Microbalance  Sensor. IEEE Sensors Journal, 19  3 (2019)  893-900[Impact factor: 3.076].

[4] Barnali Ghatak, Sk Babar Ali, Amrita Prasad, Arunangshu Ghosh, Prolay Sharma, Bipan Tudu, Prancanan Pramanik, Rajib Bandyopadhyay. Application of Polymethacrylic Acid Imprinted Quartz Crystal Microbalance Sensor for Detection of 3- Carene in Mango, IEEE sensor Journal, 18 (2018) 2697-2704[Impact factor: 3.076 ].

[5] Barnali Ghatak, Sk Babar Ali, Nilava Debabhuti, Arunangshu Ghosh, Prolay Sharma, Bipan Tudu, Rajib Bandyopadhyay. Discrimination of Tomatoes Based on Lycopene Using Cyclic Voltammetry. Sensor Letters, 15 (2017) 1–10[Impact factor: 0.62].

[6] Barnali Ghatak, Sk Babar Ali, Bipan Tudu, Panchanan Pramanik, Soumyo Mukherji, Rajib Bandyopadhyay. Detecting Ocimene in mango using mustard oil based quartz crystal microbalance sensor. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 284(2019) 514 - 524[Impact factor:7.10 ].

[7] Barnali Ghatak, Sanjoy Banerjee, Sk Babar Ali, Nityananda Das,  Bipan Tudu,  Dipankar Mandal, Rajib Bandyopadhyay. Self-Joule Heating Activated Mask for Combatting COVID-19, Journal of Nanomedicine, 3 1 (2020) 1027 [Impact factor:6.50 ].

[8]  Barnali Ghatak, Sanjoy Banerjee, Sk Babar Ali, Rajib Bandyopadhyay, Nityananda Das, Dipankar Mandal, Bipan Tudu. Design of a self-powered triboelectric face mask, Nano Energy 79 (2021) 105387[Impact factor: 16.602].

[9] Barnali Ghatak, Sanjoy Banerjee, Sk Babar Ali, Rajib Bandyopadhyay, Nityananda Das, Dipankar Mandal, Bipan Tudu, Design of a Self-powered Smart Mask for COVID-19, Journal of arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.08305 (2020).

[10] Barnali Ghataka, Sanjoy Banerjee, Sk Babar Ali, Nityananda Das, Bipan Tudu, Panchanan Pramanik, Soumyo Mukherji , Rajib Bandyopadhyay, Development of a low-cost portable aroma sensing system for identifying artificially ripened mango, Sensors and Actuators A: Physical 331 (2021) 112964 [Impact factor: 3.407].

[11] B Ghatak, H Naskar, Sk Babar Ali, S Banerjee, A K Chakroborty, N Das, B Tudu, S Mukherjee, R Bandyopadhyay, Dysprosium particles decorated Ambroxol imprinted polymer sensor to detect carbide-treated mango, Sensor and Actuator: A. Physical, 331 (2021).

[12] M Dhara, S Banerjee, H Naskar, B Ghatak, Sk Babar Ali, N Das, R Bandyopadhyay, B Tudu, Electrochemical Detection of Aloe Emodin using Platinum Electrode Based Voltammetry Technique, Journal of Material Sciences & Manufacturing Research,(2023) ISSN: 2754-4915.

[13] S Banerjee, M Dhara, H Naskar, B Ghatak, Sk Babar Ali, N Das, D K Das, R Bandyopadhyay, B Tudu, Selective Electrochemical Detection of Thymoquinone in Black Cumin Using Titanium Oxide-Modified Graphite Paste Electrode, Journal of Nano LIFE, vol. 14 no. 02, (2024).

Books Published

1.  Sanjoy Banerjee, Debangana Das, Anwesha Sengupta, NilavaDebabhuti, Barnali Ghatak, Prolay Sharma, Sk Babar Ali, Saurabh Pal, Nityananda Das, Prabal Patra, Chitresh Kundu, Arunangshu Ghosh, Rajib Bandyopadhyay, Dipankar Mandal, Bipan Tudu, SmartCovSens: A Multimodal Approach for Detection of COVID-19, Book: Healthcare Informatics for Fighting COVID-19 and Future Epidemics, Publisher: Springer.

2. Sanjay Banerjee, Barnali Ghatak, Babar Ali, Krittish Roy, Kuntal Maity, Nityananda Das, Rajib Bandyopadhyay, Dipankar Mandal, Bipan Tudu, Towards the Development of Triboelectricity-Based Virus Killer Face Mask for COVID-19: Role of Different Inputs, Book: Healthcare Informatics for Fighting COVID-19 and Future Epidemics, Publisher: Springer.

3. B Tudu, H Naskar, B Ghatak, S Banerjee, M Dhara, S Ghosh, SK Babar Ali, N Das, R Banerjee Roy, R Bandyopadhyay, Recent trends in polymer nanocomposites with molecular imprints and their electrochemical applications: An overview, Journal of comprehensive Material Processing, vol. 4, pp. 326-339, (2024).

Awards

MASTER Thesis Guidance

Patents

[1] Bipan Tudu, Rajib Bandyopadhyay, Nityananda Das, Sk Babar Ali, Barnali Ghatak, Sanjoy Banerjee. A Novel Self-Powered Triboelectric Mask. Application no: 202031025622, Date: 18/06/2020.

[2] Barnali Ghatak, Sanjoy Banerjee, Hamonto Naskar, Sk Babar Ali, Nityananda Das Bipan Tudu, Rajib Bandyopadhyay. A formulation of eco e-paint for flexible electronics, Patent No: 519310, Date of Grant: 04/03/2024.

[3] Barnali Ghatak, Sanjoy Banerjee, Hamonto Naskar, Sk Babar Ali, Nityananda DasBipan Tudu, Rajib Bandyopadhyay.A portable sensing device to detect carbide-treated mango based on Ambroxol-imprinted polymer electrode, Application reference number-202231051735, 2021.

[4] Barnali Ghatak, Sanjoy Banerjee, Sk Babar Ali, Nityananda Das Bipan Tudu, Rajib Bandyopadhyay, Dipankar Mandal, Self-Charging Multi-Layer Triboelectric PPE, International Publication Number: US20230223870A1, Publication date 13 July 2023.

Invited Lectures

[1] Invited FDP lectured on developing a low-cost sensing system to detect the quality of fruit and vegetables in IEM Kolkata. 

[2] Invited talk on the Applications of Electronics in Agriculture for the Institute Induction Program Cell (IIPC) of Aliah University.

Membership Of Learned Societies

Institute of Engineers (India): Associate Member.

Other Notable Activities

• Member Board of Studies (BOS) in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering , Aliah University.
• Chairman/Member in various committees like DRC/DSC of ECE, BOS in ECE & CSE, DPC of ECE.
• Convenor of Anti-Ragging Committee from 26.05.2022 to till date.
• Reviewer of Sensors Journal: (ISSN No: 1558-1748): IEEE
• Nodal Officer of AISHE (All India Servey of Higher Education).
• Nodal Officer of UGC 
• HoD, Dept. of ECE, Aliah University from 05.08.2024 to till date.