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I am a faculty member in the Light and Atomic Matter Physics group (LAMP) at the Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India. I am also an affiliate member at the Institute for Quantum Computing, Waterloo, Canada as well as the Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Computing at the University of Toronto. I have been a Homi Bhabha fellow from the year 2017 to 2019 and a Simon’s Emmy Noether Fellow at the Perimeter Institute, Canada from 2020 onwards.

Current Position:

Professor at the Raman Research Institute (RRI), Bangalore, India from 2020 onwards

Previous Positions:

1.Associate Professor II at RRI, 2015-2019

2.Associate Professor I at RRI, 2012-2014

3.Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Institute for Quantum Computing, Waterloo, Canada, September 2007 - February 2012.

4.Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Cavendish Laboratories, University of Cambridge, UK, 2006-2007.

Brief academic background

*PhD, University of Cambridge, U.K.

*BA, MA, University of Cambridge, U.K.

*BSc (Physics Hons.), Jadavpur University, India.

Current Research Interests

  • Experimental Quantum Information and Quantum Computing

  • Experimental Quantum Cryptography

  • Quantum Entanglement studies

  • Quantum Key Distribution using satellites- Towards Quantum Internet

  • Single photon sources, Entangled Photon sources based on polarization as well as other novel degrees of freedom