I am a faculty member in the Light and Atomic Matter Physics group (LAMP) at the Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India and a Canada Excellence Research Chair at the University of Calgary, Canada. I am also an affiliate member at the Institute for Quantum Computing, Waterloo, Canada as well as a visiting fellow at the Perimeter Institute, Canada. I have been a Homi Bhabha fellow from the year 2017 to 2019 and a Simon’s Emmy Noether Fellow at the Perimeter Institute, from 2020 to 2023.
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Current Position:
Senior Professor at the Raman Research Institute (RRI), Bangalore, India from 2025 onwards
Previous Positions:
Professor I at RRI, 2020-2025
Associate Professor II at RRI, 2015-2019
Associate Professor I at RRI, 2012-2014
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Institute for Quantum Computing, Waterloo, Canada, September 2007 - February 2012.
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 repeater networks - Towards Quantum Internet
Quantum Entanglement studies
Long distance free space Quantum Key Distribution
Single photon sources, Entangled Photon sources based on polarization as well as other novel degrees of freedom