Dr. Davinder Pal Sharma


Head of Department, Senior Lecturer in Electronics

Department of Physics

Natural Sciences Building

Physics Main Office Third Floor

St. Augustine

Trinidad and Tobago

Telephone: 868-662-2002
Ext: 82050 / 83105

Email: davinder.sharma@sta.uwi.edu


Qualification

  • B.Sc.(Electronics), GNDU
  • M. Sc. (Applied Physics), GNDU
  • Ph.D. (Applied Physics), GNDU

Fellowships and Training

  • Project Fellowship, Department of Electronics Technology, Guru Nanak Dev University, India
  • Online Training Program on “Smart grids for sustainable communities: Design, development, operation and maintenance – CAPEV 6” organized by The Latin American Energy Organization OLADE, March 14 – April 17, 2015.
  • Short Term Course on MATLAB at National Institute of Technical Teacher Training & Research, Chandigarh, India, during 10-14 Jan. 2005.
  • Faculty Development Program on Advanced Communication Systems at DAV Institute of Eng. & Tech., Jalandhar, India, during 19-20 Feb. 2004

Research Interests

  • Digital Signal Processing and its applications for Communication, Speech Recognition, Smart Grid Technology, Sensors Development and Medical Devices/Techniques.
  • VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) / DSP (Digital Signal Processor)/ Single Board Computers based implementation of Digital Signal Processing Algorithms/Digital Systems.
  • Design and Modelling of Renewable Energy Systems (Microbial Fuel Cells and Solar Cells).

Professional Experience

  • Head, Department of Physics, The UWI, St. Augustine Campus (3 years)
  • Head, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineeting, ACET,(3 years)
  • Head, Department of Physics, ACET (1 year)

Featured Work

Skills

  • Modelling and Smulation using Matlab, Comsol Mutiphysics, ISE Design Suite, Code Composer Studio, ModelSim, Electronics Workbench
  • Fortran, C, VHDL, Python, Assembly Level Language for DSP and Microprocessors

UWI Service

  • Serving as Head of Physics Department since Aug. 2018
  • Designed BSc with Major In Electronics

Public Service

  • Organized 16 workshops/training programmes/technical festivals/seminars/public forums in collaboration with international and local bodies

Professional Memberships

  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA
  • Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), India
  • Punjab Academy of Sciences (PAS), India
  • Caribbean Academy of Sciences (CAS)
  • The Caribbean Electric Utility Services Corporation (CARILEC) Renewable Energy Community (CAREC)

Courses Taught

  • Physics
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Thermal Science and Engineering
  • Engineering Physics
  • Digital Electronics
  • Digital Circuits and Logic Design
  • Digital Signal Processing
  • VLSI Design &Technology
  • Advance Electronics and Control Theory
  • Microprocessor and Modern Digital Design

Research Projects

  • Smart Grid Technology, http://www.rndrepository.com/smartgriduwi/
  • Automatic Speech Recognition
  • Optimization and Modelling of Microbial Fuel Cell
  • Design of Devices and Techniques for Medical Applications
  • Modelling and Simulation of Thin Film Solar Cell and Gas Sensors
  • DSP/FPGA/Raspberry Pi based digital system design

Graduate Students

  • Jamin Atkins, Ph.D (Graduated)
  • Bryan Hibbert, MPhil
  • Vekash Khan, MPhil

Grants

  • The UWI T&T RDI Fund worth TTD 550000.00 for the project “Capacity Building and Research on Smart Grid Technology in the Caribbean Region”, from Govt. of Trinidad & Tobago, 23rd May 2013.
  • Research and Publications Fund worth TTD 38640.00 from the University of the West Indies for the research Project “Development of Algorithms and Systems for Robust Speech Recognition in Noisy Environments", 2nd May 2011(CRP.4.MAR11.4)
  • Research and Publications Fund worth TTD 22000.00 from the University of the West Indies for the research Project “Development of Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) based Viterbi Decoder”, 17th April 2009 (CRP.3.MAR09.21)
  • Research and Publications Fund worth TTD 46325.00 from the University of the West Indies for the research Project “VLSI Implementation of various Digital Signal Processing Algorithms”, 19th Nov. 2008 (CRP.4.NOV08.1).
  • Grant worth INR 35000.00 from Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India, to conduct Workshop on Patent Awareness at Amritsar College of Eng. & Technology, Amritsar, India, 6th Feb., 2008.
  • Grant worth INR. 70000.00 from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India, to present research work at 9th International Conference on Telecommunication, Beijing, China, 23rd – 26th June 2002 (TG/580/02-HRD).

Publications and Presentations

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS for web site.docx


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