Binoy Kumar Saikia

Binoy Kumar Saikia, an eminent scientist and academician at North East Institute of Science and Technology, Jorhat (NEIST), Assam, India. He is also leading the Coal & Energy Research Group of NEIST and a Professor of AcSIR. His research interests span sustainable energy and environment in general and in particular coal-based nanotechnology, carbon and nano-materials, atmospheric chemistry, and energy storage devices. He has developed different chemical processes/technologies towards alternative applications of coal feedstocks presenting a new promising opportunity to reposition coal from a polluting energy source to a value-added material platform in the fight against climate change. He has developed and patented, both in India and the US, a technology for the production of blue-fluorescent carbon quantum dots from Indian coal.

Saikia earned his MSc degree in inorganic chemistry from Gauhati University in 2001 and PhD degree from Dibrugarh University in 2008 for a thesis titled "Some aspects of the structural investigation of Assam coal". Provided by Wikipedia