Brief Profile
Brief Profile
Dr. Aftab Hussain Shah is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Central University of Kashmir. He obtained his M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Mathematics from Aligarh Muslim University, specializing in semigroup theory, category theory and universal algebra. His principal research interests include epimorphisms and dominions, varieties and pseudovarieties of semigroups and posemigroups, automorphism groups, conjugacy, amalgamation and wreath products.
Dr. Shah has more than sixteen years of teaching and research experience and has published 50 research papers in reputed national and international journals, including Semigroup Forum, Communications in Algebra, Algebra Universalis and the International Journal of Algebra and Computation. He is also the author of the book Introduction to Semigroups. He has completed major and minor research projects and is presently working on a SERB-MATRICS project concerning idempotent-fixing automorphisms of semigroups. He has successfully supervised five Ph.D. scholars and four M.Phil. scholars, with one Ph.D. scholar currently pursuing research under his supervision.