Prof. Dr. Shakir Ali

Shakir Ali received his Ph.D. and M. Phil from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aligarh. He is an expert in Algebra, and in particular, in the theory of derivations in Rings and Algebras. He joined the Department of Mathematics, AMU, Aligarh, as a Lecturer in 2004. He was elevated to assistant professor and senior assistant professor in 2006 and 2012. He was promoted to Associate Professor in February 2016. He has been working as a Full Professor since 2019. He also worked as an Associate Professor at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, from 2014 to 2018. He is the recipient of TUBITAK Visiting Professor/Scientists fellowship awards for the years 2019 and 2022, sponsored by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, Government of Turkey. He is a life member of the Indian Mathematical Society (IMS), Mathematical Teachers Association (MTA), Ramanujam Mathematical Society (RMS), Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) and Calcutta Mathematical Society (CMS). He was given the Outstanding Scientist Award for the year 2018 by the IOSRD. He has published more than 150 research articles in highly reputed international journals. His research topics mainly include derivations in rings, near-rings and algebras, functional identities, and additive mappings in rings with applications to Coding Theory, Cryptography, Graph Theory and Information Sciences.