Dr. Sathish Kannan is the Dean of School of Engineering, Architecture and Interior Design at Amity University Dubai, where he also serves as the Chairman of the University Research Committee. Before joining Amity University Dubai, he held the position of Engineering Program Manager at Rolls-Royce plc (UK), leading global programme teams responsible for aerospace propulsion-related products supporting the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and Airbus A380/A350 XWB fleet. 

Following this, Dr. Kannan was appointed as Design and Manufacturing Engineering faculty at the American University of Sharjah where he also served as a professional internship coordinator.

Dr. Kannan earned a doctoral degree from the University of New Brunswick, Canada, and completed an industrial post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is a senior engineering fellow of the Royal Institution of Mechanical Engineers (UK), member of the Global Engineering Deans Council, and highly qualified personnel of AUTO 21 Canada.

Publications:

• Bupesh Raja V. K, Gururaj Parande, Sathish Kannan, Puskaraj D Sonawwanay, Selvarani V, Ramasubramanian S, Ramachandran D, Abishek Jeremiah, Akash Sundaraeswar K, Satheeshwaran S, Manoj Gupta, (2023), Influence of Ablation Medium on the Surface Topography Characteristics of Laser Surface Modified Resorbable Mg3Zn Alloy and Mg3Zn1HA Nanocomposite, Metals-MDPI. Metals 2023, 13(5), 850; https://doi.org/10.3390/met13050850. 
• Thomas, K., Kannan, S., Pervaiz S., Nazzal, M., Karthikeyan, R.,  (2023) ‘Computational Analysis of Machining Induced Stress Distribution during Dry and Cryogenic Orthogonal Cutting of 7075 Aluminium Closed Cell Syntactic Foams., Micromachines - 14, 174. https://doi.org/10.3390/mi14010174 (Impact Factor: 3.523, MDPI Publishers).
• Vavanan, M., Kannan, S., Karthikeyan, R., Rajiv Selvam, (2022) ‘Sliding wear maps for AZ31 magnesium alloy reinforced with thin walled hollow alumina microspheres’ Journal of Bio and Tribocorrosion, (Publisher: Springer Nature). 8(4) DOI:10.1007/s40735-022-00707-8.
• Abdalla Mohammed , Sathish Kannan, Salman Pervaiz,  Shafahat Ali  , Kevin K. Thomas  and Ramanujam Karthikeyan  (2022) ‘Sustainable Machining of Mg-9Al-1.4Zn Foam Used for Temporary Biomedical Implant using Liquid Nitrogen’, Materials-(Impact Factor:3.748, MDPI Publishers). Materials 2022, 15(19), 6678; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma15196678. 
• Pervaiz, S., Subramaniam, A. & Kannan, S. (2023) Multi-objective optimization of cortical bone machining using numerical and statistical approaches. Int J Interact Des Manuf . https://doi.org/10.1007/s12008-023-01296-7.