DR. SADIA SIDDIQA Date of Birth: October 27, 1985 Nationality: Pakistani Mailing Address: Department of Mathematics, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Kamra Road, Attock, Pakistan. Skype: sadiasiddiqa Email: saadiasiddiqa@gmail.com EDUCATION PhD (Mathematics) Institution: Thesis: Advisors: MS (Mathematics) Institution: Thesis: Advisors: BS (Mathematics) Institution: Thesis: Advisor: COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan. On Convection Flow of Viscous Fluid Along a Surface with and without Radiation Effect. Prof. Dr. Md. Anwar Hossain and Prof. Dr. Saleem Asghar 2012 COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan. Blade coating with Oldroyd-B fluid. Prof. Dr. Q. K. Ghori and Prof. Dr. A. M. Siddiqui 2009 COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan. On exact solutions of the unsteady Navier-Stokes equations Dr. Attaullah Kalim 2007 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 1. Position held: Assistant Professor Organization: COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Attock, Pakistan. Duration: November 2012 to present 2. Position held: Visiting Lecturer Organization: International Islamic University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan. Duration: September 2011-December 2011 (Fall Semester 2011) RESEARCH INTEREST External flow: Heat and mass transfer in natural and mixed convection; combined conduction-radiation-convection problem for flow of Newtonian fluid; magnetohydrodynamic convective flow; convective flow of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluid through porous media. 1 RESEARCH COLLABORATION 1. Dr. Md. Anwar Hossain Former Professor University of Dhaka Dhaka, Bangladesh. 2. Dr. Suvash Chandra Saha School of Chemistry, Physics and Mechanical Engineering Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Brisbane, Australia. PUBLICATIONS Journal Publications 1. S. Siddiqa, S. Asghar and M. A. Hossain, Natural convection flow over an inclined flat plate with internal heat generation and variable viscosity, Math. Comput. Modell., 52, 1739-1751, 2010. (IF: 1.346) 2. S. Siddiqa, S. Asghar and M. A. Hossain, Radiation effects on natural convection flow over an inclined flat plate with temperature dependent viscosity, Proc. IJMES: Part C, 225, 407419, 2011. (IF: 0.473) 3. Md. Mamun Molla, Md. Anwar Hossain and Sadia Siddiqa, Radiation effect on free convection laminar flow from an isothermal sphere, Chem. Eng. Commun., 198, 1483-1496, 2011. (IF: 0.946) 4. L. K. Saha, S. Siddiqa and M. A. Hossain, Effect of Hall current on the MHD natural convection flow from a vertical permeable flat plate with uniform surface heat flux, Appl. Math. Mech., 32, 1127-1146, 2011. (IF: 0.558) 5. Sadia Siddiqa, M. A. Hossain and Rama Subba Reddy Gorla, Conduction-radiation effects on periodic magnetohydrodynamic natural convection boundary layer flow along a vertical surface, Int. J. Therm. Sci., 53, 119-129, 2012. (IF: 2.142) 6. S. Siddiqa, S. Asghar and M. A. Hossain, Radiation effect in mixed convection flow of viscous fluid having temperature dependent density along permeable vertical plate, J. Eng. Phys. Thermophys., 85, 339-348, 2012. 7. Suvash C. Saha, YuanTong Gu, Md. M. Molla, Sadia Siddiqa and Md. Anwar Hossain, Natural convection from a vertical plate embedded in a stratified medium with uniform heat source, Desalin.Water Treat., 44, 7-14, 2012. (IF: 0.752) 8. S. Siddiqa and M. A. Hossain, Conduction-convection-radiation effect on the flow of optically dense viscous incompressible fluid on a horizontal circular disk, J. Eng. Phys. Thermophys. 85, 627-636, 2012. 2 9. Sadia Siddiqa, M. A. Hossain and I. Pop, Conjugate thermal and mass diffusion effect on natural convection flow in presence of strong cross magnetic field, Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, 55, 5120-5132, 2012. (IF: 2.407) 10. Sadia Siddiqa and M. A. Hossain, Mixed convection boundary layer flow over a vertical flat plate with thermal radiation from the surface, Appl. Mathematics, 3, 705-716, 2012. 11. Sadia Siddiqa, Md. Anwar Hossain and Suvash C. Saha, Double diffusive magnetoconvection fluid flow in a strong cross magnetic field with uniform surface heat and mass flux, ASME J. Heat Transfer, 134, 114506 (9 pages), 2012. (IF: 1.83) Conference Papers 1. M. A. Rana, Sadia Siddiqa, A. M. Siddiqui, Farkhanda Ikhlaque, and M. Zahid, Solution of fully developed natural convection heat and mass transfer of a micropolar fluid in a vertical channel with asymmetric wall temperatures concentration via homotopy perturbation method, 7th International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences & Technology (IBCAST), Jan 1114, 2010, National Centre for Physics, QAU, Islamabad, Pakistan, Organized by Centre of Excellence in Science & Applied Technologies (CESAT). 2. S. Siddiqa and M. A. Hossain, Thermal radiation effects on periodic MHD natural convection flow along a vertical surface, 9th International Conference on Mechanical Engineering (ICME2011, Dhaka), December 18-20, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2011. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Journals Refereed: 1. The Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering. 2. International Journal of the Physical Sciences. MEMBERSHIPS AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 1. All Pakistan Mathematical Association (APMA), Member. 2. All Pakistan Mathematical Conference 2010, Participant, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, June 22-23, 2010. 3. On convection flow of viscous fluid along a surface with and without radiation effects, Presenter, Seminar at CIIT, Islamabad March 03, 2011. 4. Nonlinear problems in mathematics, Participant, COMSTECH International Workshop, October 9-11, 2012. AWARDS AND HONOR 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Merit scholarship awarded by CIIT for BS. Merit scholarship awarded by CIIT for MS. Merit scholarship awarded by CIIT for Ph.D. Research productivity award from CIIT, April 2011. Graduate Assessment Test (GAT-Subject) Score 69/100. 3 LANGUAGES 1. Urdu: Native Language. 2. English: Intermediate Listener, Advanced Reading and Writing. 3. IELTS Overall Band Score 6.0. COMPUTER SKILLS 1. Programming: Fortran, C++ 2. Applications: MS Office, Latex 3. Platforms: Maple, Mathematica REFERENCES These persons are familiar with my professional qualifications and my character: 1. Dr. Md. Anwar Hossain Former professor Department of Mathematics University of Dhaka, Bangladesh Email: anwar@univdhaka.edu 2. Dr. Noor Muhammad Larik Professor /Advisor Department of Mathematics CIIT, Islamabad, Pakistan Email: nmlarik@hotmail.com 3. Dr. Suvash Chandra Saha School of Chemistry, Physics and Mechanical Engineering Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Brisbane, Australia. Email: suvash.saha@qut.edu.au 4