Education & Work Experience

• Jan 2022 - Present Assistant Professor, SeNSE, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India

• Aug 2016 - Dec 2021 Post-doc, Dept. of Neurobiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

• Jan 2015 - Jul 2016 Post-doc, EECS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

• Aug 2012 - Sep 2012 Visiting Scholar, EIIRIS, Toyohshi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Aichi, Japan

• Jun 2011 - Feb 2016 Ph.D. Physics (Optics)*, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India

• Jul 2009 - May 2011 M.Tech. Applied Optics, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India

• Jun 2007 - Apr 2009 M.Sc. Physics, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, AP, India

• Jun 2004 - Apr 2007 B.Sc. Physics, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, AP, India

*Ph.D. thesis title: Optical realization and micro-fabrication of defect embedded and spatially variant photonic lattice structures.

Awards / Fellowships

• Young Faculty Incentive Fellowship, IIT Delhi, 2022-2024

• Senior Research Fellowship (SRF), CSIR , Govt. of India, 2011-2014

• Junior Research Fellowship (JRF), CSIR , Govt. of India, 2009-2011

• MHRD Fellowship, Govt. of India, 2009

Invited Talks

• March, 2022: "Crossbill: a single objective light-sheet microscopy platform for everyone", Practical Technologies: Workshop Series, University of Cambridge, UK https://www.engbio.cam.ac.uk/practical-technologies

• May, 2020: "Light-sheet microscopy goes single objective", Emerging Imaging Technology in Biomedical Research – Mini Symposium, Evanston, IL, USA

• February, 2020: "Scanned Oblique Plane Illumination Microscopy", Cell & Developmental Biology Department at Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA

• June, 2019: "Scanned Oblique Plane Illumination Microscopy" Sculpted Light in the Brain Conference, The Royal Society, London, UK

• March, 2019: "Fast 3D imaging with single objective light-sheet microscopy", Midwest Microscopy and Microanalysis Society Spring Meeting, Evanston, IL, USA

Reviewing Experience

• Optica publishing group: Applied Optics, Optics Letters, Optics Express, Biomedical Optics Express, Optics Continuum

• Elsevier: Optics Communications

• Nature publishing group: Scientific Reports, Nature Methods