PhD, Fellow IoP (FInstP), Fellow IET (FIET), Chartered Engineer (CEng), Senior Member IEEE, Senior Member OSA
Senior Lecturer
- About
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- Email Address
- k.nakkeeran@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 272817
- Office Address
369 Fraser Noble Building
School of Engineering
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen AB24 3UE
- School/Department
- School of Engineering
Biography
PostDoc
- Hong Kong (01/2002 - 02/2005) - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- France (11/1999 - 12/2001) - University of Bourgogne
- India (01/1999 - 10/1998) - The Institute of Mathematical Sciences
PhD (1995-1998) - Nonlinear Fibre Optics - Anna University, India
MTech (1993-1995) - Laser & Electro Optical Engineering - Anna University, India
BEng (1989-1993) - Electronics & Communication Engineering - CIT, Bharathiar university, India
External Memberships
Membership of Professional Bodies
- Institute of Physics (IoP) - Fellow IoP (FInstP)
- Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET) - Fellow IET (FIET)
- Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) - Senior Member IEEE (SMIEEE)
- Senior Member of Optica (formally Optical Society of America OSA) - Senior Member Optica (SMOptica)
- Chartered Engineer (CEng) - IET
- Research
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Research Overview
- Optical fibre sensors
- Modelling & simulations of soft robotics
- Optical fibre communications
- Solitons in nonlinear fiber optics
- Optical pulse compression
- Fibre lasers
- Supercontinuum generation
- Design of photonic crystal fibres
- Dispersion-managed solitons
- Modelling of semiconductor lasers
- Integrability aspects of nonlinear partial differential equations
Funding and Grants
Santander Mobility Awards 2018
Title: Multimode Nonlinear Optics in Photonic Crystal Fibres
Amount: £ 980 (Travel & Subsistence)
Period of award: 6 months (Jun '18 – Dec '18)The Research Grants Council (RGC) Hong Kong project PolyU 152173/17E (co-PI)
Title: Multimode Nonlinear Optics in Photonic Crystal Fibers
Amount: HK$ 495,846
Period of award: 3 years (Jan '18 – Dec '20)The Research Grants Council (RGC) Hong Kong project PolyU 152144/15E (co-PI)
Title: Generation of Few-Cycle Pulses in Fiber Lasers by Using Passive Similaritons in Anomalous Dispersion Fibers
Amount: HK$ 696,029
Period of award: 3 years (Jan '16 – Dec '18)The Research Grants Council (RGC) Hong Kong project PolyU 5263/13E (co-PI)
Title: Frequency Domain Mode-Locked Lasers
Amount: HK$605,300
Period of award: 3 years (Jan '14 – Dec '16)UK India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI) Exchange Project (co-PI)
Title: Development of Optical Fibre based devices for Sensing Applications
Amount: £30,010 (Travel & Subsistence)
Period of project: 2 years (July '13 - June '15)Northern Research Partnership PhD Studentship Project (co-PI)
Title: Development of non-invasive blood glucose monitoring system
Amount: £31,000 (PhD Studentship)
Period of project: 3 years (Dec '12 - Nov '15)Hydro-Aluminium Consultancy Project (PI)
Title: Non-destructive techniques for identification and quantification of elemental changes in extruded aluminium
Amount: £11,800 (consultancy)
Period of project: 15 March – 30 June 2011The Royal Society Short Visit (UK-Japan) (PI)
Title: Optical Pulse Compression Using Chirped Solitons
Amount: £2,580 (Travel & Subsistence)
Period of visit: 2 weeks in Jan '10The Research Grants Council (RGC) Hong Kong project PolyU 5289/07E (co-PI)
Title: Design and Analysis of a Novel Non-uniform Fiber Bragg Grating Pulse Compressor
Amount: HK$462,000
Period of award: 2 years (Jan '08 – Dec '09)The Research Grants Council (RGC) Hong Kong project HKU 7118/07E (co-PI)
Title: The NLS models with novel nonlinearities: their applications in capillarity and optics
Amount: HK$497,750
Period of award: 2 years (Jan '08 – Dec '09)The Royal Society International Joint Project Grants Programme (UK-Brazil) (PI)
Title: Design and Simulation of Terrestrial Dispersion-Managed Optical Fibre Systems
Amount: £12,000 (Travel & Subsistence)
Period of award: 3 years (Nov '07 – Oct '10)Scottish Funding Council (co-PI)
Title: Innovation Instrumentation Technologies for 21st Century Oil and Gas Industries in Scotland
Amount: £57,299
Period of award: 6 months (Jan '07 – June '07)The Nuffield Foundation Newly Appointed Lecturer Award (PI)
Title: Design and simulation of DM optical fibre transmission systems
Amount: £5000 (Computer, Software, Travel & Subsistence)
Period of award: 2 years (May '06 – Apr '08)The Libyan Cultural Affairs studentship & project (PI)
Title: Analytical design of WDM-DM optical fibre transmission systems
Amount: £2650 (Computer, Software & Subsistence) + PhD studentship
Period of award: 3 years (May '06 – Apr '09)The Royal Society of Edinburgh International Exchange Programme (PI)
Title: Optical fibre communications
Amount: £800 (Travel)
Period of visit: 27 Mar '06 – 07 Apr '06The Royal Society International Joint Project Grants Programme (UK-HK) (PI)
Title: Dynamics of optical pulses in averaged, dispersion-managed fibres
Amount: £6,000 (Travel & Subsistence)
Period of award: 2 years (Oct '05 – Sep '07)The Sixth Century Studentship (University of Aberdeen) (PI)
Title: Transmission performance improvement of DM fibre systems using NOLM
Amount: PhD studentship
Period of Award: 3 years (Dec '05 – Nov '08) - Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
Lectures: C/C++ Programming (MEng/BEng)
Electronics Design (MEng/BEng)
Optical Systems & Sensing (MEng)
Laboratories: Electrical & Electronics Circuits (MEng/BEng)
C/C++ Programming (MEng/BEng)
Supervision: PhD study
MEng/BEng Honours degree projects
MSc projects