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

He later joined the American University of Sharjah as a faculty member in Design and Manufacturing Engineering, where he also served as the Professional Internship Coordinator, strengthening industry-academia engagement and experiential learning opportunities for students.

Professor Kannan earned his PhD from the University of New Brunswick, Canada, and completed an Industrial Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is a Fellow of Advance HE (UK), a Senior Engineering Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE, UK), a Member of the Global Engineering Deans Council, and a Highly Qualified Personnel (HQP) of AUTO21 Canada.