About

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India, 2009

  • Thesis Title: Large-mode area rectangular optical waveguides and fibres

  • Supervisor: Dr. Vipul Rastogi, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India

• M.Sc. in Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee  India, 2004

  • Thesis Title: Fabrication and characterization of Glass Waveguides

  • Supervisor: Dr. Vipul Rastogi, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India

• B.Sc. in Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry, DDU Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, India, 2002

POSITIONS HELD

• Assistant Professor: July, 2010 - Present

          Department of Applied Physics, Delhi Technological University, Delhi, India

• Postdoctoral Researcher: January, 2010 - June, 2010

          Research Institute for Solar and Sustainable Energies, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Korea

• Research Trainee: September, 2007 - December, 2007 (Under exchange program)

          Department of Electrical, Electronics & Information Engineering, School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, City University, London

• PhD Researcher: 2004 to 2009

          Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India

ADMINISTRATIVE BACKGROUND

• Officer Incharge: Computation Lab

• Officer Incharge: Optics Lab

• Officer Incharge: Fiber Optics and Optical Communication lab

• Officer Incharge: Optical Fiber Characterization Lab

• Officer Incharge: Optical Communication Design and Simulation Lab

• Officer Incharge: Applied Physics Lab, B.Tech. Evening

• Member, Student Research Committee

• Coordinator, M.Tech. (MOCE)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• OSA, Member

• OSI, Life Member

• ILA, Life Member

• IEEE, Member

RECENT MEETINGS ATTENDED

• International Conference on Optics and Optoelectronics – ICOL 2005, Dehradun, India, 2005

• International Workshop on Emerging areas of Fiber Optics and Future Applications – IWOP 2005, Kolkata, India, 2005

• Indo-UK Workshop on Recent Advances in Fiber Optics and Photonics – RAFOP 2006, Roorkee, India, 2006

• Workshop on Fiber Sensors and Components, New Delhi, India, 2006

• Eighth International Conference on Optoelectronics, Fiber Optics and Photonics – Photonics 2006, Hyderabad, India, 2006

• Seminar Series On Fiber Optics Photonics and Applications, FOPA – 2006, Roorkee, India, 2006

• 3RD Forum of Indo-Japan Collaboration, Delhi, India, 2007

• Indo-Japan Workshop on Recent Advances in Optics and Photonics, Delhi, India, 2007

• 3RD Uttarakhand State Science and Technology Congress, Roorkee, India, 2008

• International Conference on Fiber and Photonics- Photonics 2008, Delhi, India, 2008

• 17th conference on optoelectronics and optical communications-COOC-2010, South Korea

• 9th international conference on optical internet-COIN-2010, South Korea

• Workshop on MEMS Design using COMSOL, INTELLI SUITE and COVENTOR for Northern Region at BITS Pilani during 19-24 February, 2011

• National Conference on Advances in Physics-NCAP 2012 at IIT Roorkee, 2012