Anil Prabhakar

Bio-sketch

Prof. Anil Prabhakar received his PhD in 1997 from Carnegie Mellon University, with a dissertation on the Nonlinear Spin-wave Optical Interactions. He has been with the faculty at the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT-Madras since 2002, and is engaged across multiple laboratories that work on quantum technologies, fibre lasers and opto-fluidics.

He is a member of the Scientific Management Board for LIGO-India, to detect gravity waves, and the India-based Neutrino Observatory. He currently serves as

 Editorial Boards 

• Scientific Reports (Nature), 

• IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 

• J. Magnetism and Magnetic Materials. 

Other

• Chair: BIS Panel on Quantum Computing

• Nominee: Indian representative at IUPAP C.9 panel on Magnetism (2021-2027)

• Member: FICCI ST&I committee on Research

• Member:  Joint Technical Advisory Group (TAG) of the Empower Technology Group, Office of PSA to Govt. of India

• LIGO-India Scientific Management Board

• Member: UGC Expert Committee to frame guidelines for equitable access to quality education for SEDGs

• Senate Member, IIIT - Delhi

His current research interests in the areas of quantum  technologies, have applications in metrology, quantum communication  and quantum computing. As a co-founder of QuNu Labs and of Quanfluence, both incubated by IIT Madras, he focused on quantum communications and photonic quantum computing, respectively. An earlier startup, Unilumen Photonics that focused on fibre lasers was acquired by Jiva Sciences. He is currently the Director of Yali Mobility and Enability Foundation, companies that focus on rehabilitation engineering. He has over 50 research publications, has co-authored a book on Spin Waves, a few book chapters, and has 18 patents on a wide range of devices in areas of photonics, magnonics and assistive devices.