PhD open defence held online at Cusat

Kochi: 16.06.2020

The open defence of the first PhD from Advanced Centre for Atmospheric Radar Research (ACARR), Cochin University of Science and Technology (Cusat), was done online with the student defending his thesis from Arizona. The candidate, Titu K Samson is undergoing training as a post-doctoral fellow at Arizona State University, USA. He did his PhD work entitled ‘Design, Development, Calibration and Validation of 205 MHz Wind Profiler Radar’ under the guidance of P Mohanan, professor (retd), department of electronics, Cusat, who is also a founding coordinator of the radar project.

Cusat has been conducting its PhD open defence online through open-source Jitsi-based online meeting facilities in their data centre. TNN