Area of research of Dr Farooqi is polymer colloids and smart polymer microgels for biomedical, nano-technological and catalytic applications. He has published 84 journal articles with accumulative impact factor of 211.694 which have attracted 1197 citations with H-index of 22 and i-10 index of 39 (Google Scholar). He has presented more than 40 research papers as poster/oral presentations in International and National Conferences.