Mahaboobbatcha's career interest includes MEMS-based gas and electrochemical sensor design, Solar Cell, Semiconductors, Gas/Bio Sensors, Superhydrophobic Material Development and Coating Technologies and fabrication. He is interested in designing and fabrication of NEMS/MEMS devices, material development for energy applications, Advanced metallization schemes for solar cells, and lithography techniques such as maskless writer, mask aligner, and nano imprint lithography.

He has worked on developing Silicon Nitride (SiN), Silicon di-oxide (SiO2), and Silicon Oxynitride (SiON) dielectric layer coatings for solar cells, sensors, and transistors using the Inductive Coupled Plasma Chemical Vapor Deposition (ICP-CVD) method. He had designed and developed semi-automated electroless and electroplating equipment, infrared-based rapid thermal annealing system, and Nano-imprint lithography tool. At PSG-IAS, IIT-Bombay, and the Advanced Science Research Centre at City College of New York, he has sufficient experience working in Class 10,000, Class 1,000, and Class 100 Cleanrooms. He had used both wet and dry etching (plasma etching) techniques to remove polymers and dielectrics. 

As an interdisciplinary researcher, he also worked on the development of chemiresistive type gas sensor devices based on metal oxides, thin films, and other materials. The research mainly focused on surface structural enhancements of defect engineered metal oxides and their surface reactive sensing platforms for flexible, temperature-independent, and low-power MEMS gas sensors. He published seven publications in reputable international journals like Advanced Engineering Materials, Nanoscale Advances, Materials Advances, Superlattices and Microstructures (Citations 220+ h-index 4). He also filed a patent for Superhydrophobic material development and coating process. A number of my key findings are also in the process of being communicated. Additionally, he presented research at national and international conferences.

Throughout his doctoral studies, he gained teaching experience at PSG's physics department. My training and knowledge give me the ability to capture the attention of students while teaching. He believes in practical examples which involves implementation of the concepts and ideas. 

Currently employed as a Postdoctoral Fellow at The City University of New York in the field of MEMS-based gas and electrochemical sensor design and fabrication.