Supervisors/Mentors/Colloborators

PhD Supervisor

Dr. SAMIR K MONDAL Website

Dr. SAMIR K MONDAL have completed my PhD in the year 2000 from University of Calcutta after obtaining M.Sc in Physics from the same university. He has pursued PhD research in the area of Optical Fiber and Integrated Optics. He has taught undergraduate physics course for one and half years before moving to USA for pursuing postdoctoral research in 2001. He spent seven years abroad doing advanced research in the field of optics under reputed research universities and laboratories. He was associated with USA universities, University of California, Irvine and University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, as postdoctoral researcher. He has also spent about three years as research scientist in Tyndall Research Institute, Ireland. Since 2012, He is a faculty member in the Department of Advanced Materials and Sensors, CSIR-Central Scientific Instruments Organization, Chandigarh, India. He has research experiences in optical interconnect, photonic crystal materials and devices, laser optics and instrumentation. Currently he is leading a research group with research focus on optical antenna, near-field optics, optical tweezer, surface-plasmon and sensors. Also Currently he is involved in several projects related optical imaging, sensing and trapping. He has more than fifty publications including thirty publications in reputed journals.

He belongs to West-Bengal and born in a picturesque village nearby river Ganga. He is influenced by moderate leftist ideologies.

Mentor

Dr. Umesh Kumar Tiwari (Project Mentor at CSIO) Link

Dr. Umesh Kumar Tiwari received the B. Sc. & M.Sc. (Electronics & Communication) degrees from Bhopal University, and Institute of Physics and Electronics, Bhopal India in 1997 and 1999 respectively. Dr. Tiwari received his M. Tech. degree in Opto-electronics from SGSITS, Indore, India in 2004. He has also received Ph.D degree on "Studies on Hybrid Optical Amplifiers and Gratings for Application in the 1550 nm Wavelength Window" from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India in 2014 under the supervision of Prof. K. Thyagarajan and Prof. M. R. Shenoy. Currently, he is working as a Scientist in the Advanced Materials and Sensors Division at CSIR-Central Scientific Instruments Organisation, Chandigarh, India. Dr. Tiwari is also working as an Assistant Professor in AcSIR: Courses taught at Graduate and Ph.D. level at CSIO.

He has supervised various M.Tech. Thesis and over 06 R&D Projects sponsored from Government Organizations.

He has published more than 58 research articles in journal and conferences proceedings. His various research papers presented in conferences have been selected for the Best Presentation Awards. His current research interests includes: Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) and long period grating (LPG) based sensors, DFG/DBR structures for sensing applications, FBG for precision mechanical components, FBG based accelerometer and acoustic sensing, LPG based bio-sensing (bacteria, pesticides, bio-marker, and antigen). Dr. Tiwari is also recipient of CSIR Young Scientist award in Physical Sciences (2012) by the Government of India. He is member of SPIE, OSA and IEEE. He is the Fellow of IETE, New Delhi, India since 2015.

MTech. Supervisor

Dr. J. T. Andrews Link

Dr. J. T. Andrews obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from SGS Institute of Technology & Science (Engineering Discipline, Devi Ahilya University), Indore in 1994 and 1998 respectively. He held faculty positions at SGSITS, Indore as well as at Birla Institute of Technology, - BITS, Mesra, Ranchi.

He is presently Professor of Applied Physics at SGSITS, Indore. He has also worked at Raja Ramanna Center for Advanced Technology (RRCAT, Indore), Indore as well as at Humboldt University zu Berlin, Germany. He also worked for a short spell at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, and visited major R&D facilities in Europe.

He is a recipient of Dr. K. S. Krishnan Award of Department of Atomic Energy, Mumbai and BOYSCAST Award of Department of Science & Technology, GOI, New Delhi, Young Scientist Award from Department of Biotechnology, GoI, New Delhi and nominated for Dr. N. S. Satyamurthy Award of Indian Physics Association. He has published over 75 peer-reviewed international papers and contributed a chapter each in three books. Eight students have awarded and two are pursuing for Ph.D. under his Guidance. More than 2 crores of rupees have generated through R&D Projects.

Dr. Andrews’ research interests center around Optical Tweezers, Manipulation of nanomaterials, Biomedical Imaging, Non-invasive glucose measurements with Optical coherence tomography, Optical properties of Quantum dots, Quantum Optical Computer, and NDT&E using real-time holography, etc.