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Convener, Board of Studies (BOS), Department of Applied Sciences, IIIT Allahabad — June 2025 to Present
Secretary, IEEE Photonic Society Uttar Pradesh Chapter— January 2023 to Present.
Warden, Boys’ Hostel-3, IIIT Allahabad — January 2023 to Present
Member, Time Table Committee, Department of Applied Sciences, IIIT Allahabad — January 2022 to Present
Member, Departmental Post-Graduate Committee (DPGC), Department of Applied Sciences, IIIT Allahabad — January 2022 to May 2025
Member, Departmental Purchase Committee, Department of Applied Sciences, IIIT Allahabad — January 2022 to May 2025
Intellectual Property Rights Awareness Programme (NIPAM) @ IIIT-Allahabad under the initiative "Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav" by Govt. of India on 24 January 2022.
One-day national webinar on NanoDCAL Software for Nanoelectronics materials & device simulation at 3 August 2022.
One-week training program on "Advanced Training Program on Experimental and Simulation Techniques for Materials Science", in association with Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan, under the DST-STUTI scheme, Govt. of India, from 21-27 June 2023.
Sixth IEEE International "WORKSHOP ON RECENT ADVANCES IN PHOTONICS", 07-09 December 2023 - IIIT Allahabad.
Self-Finance course on, "Materials Informatics", 16-18 February 2024 at IIIT Allahabad.
ONLINE WORKSHOP ON "NUMERICAL AND ANALYTICAL RELATIVITY (NAR-2024)" MARCH 20-22, 2024 - IIIT Allahabad.
Self-finance Workshop on “COMSOL-a Multiphysics simulation software” on 3rd Sep 2024.
Self-finance Workshop on “Functional Materials and Simulation Techniques” in online mode from 21st -25th October 2024.
8th IEEE Conference on Information Communication Technology 2024 (CICT 2024) https://cict2024.iiita.ac.in/2024/ during December 6-8, 2024.
Symposium on EMERGING TRENDS OF QUANTUM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 14 December 2024, Organized by Department of Applied Sciences, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, Prayagraj-211015, Uttar Pradesh, India
Technical Program Committee member of the International conference, "7th International Conference on Inventive Material Science and Applications," organized by Muthayammal Engineering College, an Autonomous Institution affiliated with Anna University, Chennai, 28-30 May 2025.
Two-Day Symposium and Workshop on "Quantum Science & Technology" under self-finance mode from March 17-18, 2025
ONE DAY FACULTY WORKSHOP ON "Exploring the Role of Electroceramics in Future Communication Landscapes" under SERB SPONSORED SSR ACTIVITY, on 28 June 2025.
5-Day Symposium and Training Workshop on "Quantum Information & Technologies (QIT)" under self-finance mode from July 24-28, 2025, Jointly Organized by IIIT Allahabad and C-DAC Pune.
International Workshop on “Frontiers in Quantum Information and Technologies (FQIT) 2026” Organized by Department of Applied Sciences, IIIT Allahabad, March 26 - 29, 2026.
Workshop on “Machine Learning, Linear Algebra and Natural Language Transformation (MANTRA)” July 20 - 22, 2026 at IIIT Allahabad (Hybrid Mode).
Invited Talk on “Cerium Oxide (CeO₂) Nanostructures: Multifunctional Materials for Energy, Environmental, and Biomedical Applications” at the National Workshop On Nanomaterials: Design, Properties and Application of 2D Nanomaterials (Grephene, MoS2 and Beyond), Scheduled to be held from 11-17 march 2026, Organized by Nehru Gram Bharti (DU) Prayagraj.
Keynote Talk on “Low – Loss Microwave Dielectric Ceramics for High-Frequency Communication: Materials Design and Processing Strategies” at the International Conference on Ultrasonics and Materials Science for Advanced Technology (ICUMSAT-2025), scheduled to be held from 21–23 January 2026, jointly organized by Easwari Engineering College, Chennai, and SRM TRP Engineering College, Tiruchirappalli, in association with the Ultrasonics Society of India (USI).
Expert Talk on “Fuel Cells as the Next-Generation Renewable Energy Technology” in Two-Day AICTE Sponsored Workshop on “Hydrogen Energy: Towards a Sustainable and Self-Reliant Future” under the emerging field Hydrogen Energy on 20th–21st November 2025, organized by Shri Vishwakarma Skill University (SVSU), Palwal, Haryana.
Expert Talk on “Explore Microwave Dielectric properties of Sr2SnO4 Ceramics for mm-wave Communication Application” in Five days Short Term Course (STC) on “Cutting Edge Technologies: The Next Wave (CET-2025)” from 17th November to 21st November, 2025, organized by Department of Electronics Engineering, REC Sonbhadra.
Invited Talk on "Exploring Ruddlesden-Popper Oxide Ceramics: Composition, Charge Compensation, and Technological Applications" in International Conference on “Photonics and Emerging Materials for Futuristic Technology (PEMFT)”, scheduled from 13-15 November, 2025, organised by Department of Physics, Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut.
Delivered a keynote talk on "Fuel Cells as the Next-Generation Renewable Energy Technology" at a One-day National Seminar on Advanced Functional Materials for Energy Applications, scheduled on 13th October 2025, organised by Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University, Jaunpur.
Deliver a lecture on "Introduction to Quantum Gates and Quantum circuit" at the five-day symposium and Workshop on "Quantum Science and Technology" (QST-2025), July 24-28, 2025, jointly organised by IIIT Allahabad and C-DAC Pune.
Keynote Talk on "X-ray Diffraction and Its Application in Materials Characterisation" Five-Day Faculty Development Program (FDP) on "Recent Trends in Science and Engineering", scheduled from 19th to 23rd May 2025, at Anand International College of Engineering, Jaipur.
Deliver a lecture on "Introduction to Quantum Gates" at the two-day symposium and Workshop on "Quantum Information and Technologies" (QIT-2025), scheduled for 17-18 March 2025.
Keynote Talk on "Ruddlesden Popper Oxide as Functional Material for Multifunctional Applications" at the International Conference on “Frontiers in Materials Science and Technology: Energy, Environment, and Sustainable Development” (ICFMST–2024), scheduled for December 5th and 6th, 2024.
A series of talks in "Faculty Development Program (FDP) on Data Analysis and Instrumentation Techniques for Translational Research", from 15th July 2024 to 20th July 2024 at Invertis University, Bareilly, U.P.
Delivered the Hands-On training on “WIEN2k code” & Lecture entitled by “Electronic Properties of Cubic Fluorite CeO2” on “Quantum Leap: DFT Code Mastery”, organized by the Association of Indian Physicists (AIP), held on May 11-12, 2024.
Ruddlesden Popper oxide-based ceramics as multifunctional materials, "International Conference on Advancement in Functional Materials," during February 8–10, 2024, at the VBS Purvanchal University Jaunpur campus.
Layered Perovskite Oxide as Functional Material for Multifunctional Applications in Seven day International Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on Advanced Functional Materials: Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development towards the National Science Day Celebration from February 28 to March 9, 2023.
Ruddlesden Popper oxide ceramics and its application, “International Conference on Emerging Trends in Nanomaterials and Devices (ICONMD-23)” to be conducted by the Department of Physics during 02.03.2023 & 03.03.2023
Research career opportunities in National Workshop on Career Counselling, Personality Development & Interaction Sessions (CCPDIS-2023) organised by Mahila Mahavidyalaya, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India from 6-10 Feb 2023.
L-C-R meter instrumentation and characterization techniques in "Advanced Training Program on Experimental and Simulation Techniques for Materials Science", in association with Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan, under the DST-STUTI scheme, Govt. of India, from 21-27 June 2023.
X-ray diffraction and its application, in One-week "Advanced Training Program on Experimental and Simulation Techniques for Materials Science", in association with Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan, under the DST-STUTI scheme, Govt. of India, from 21-27 June 2023.
Layered Perovskite Oxide as Functional Material for Multifunctional Applications, in Seven day International Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on Advanced Functional Materials: Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development towards the National Science Day Celebration during February 28, to March 9, 2023.
Ruddlesden Popper oxide ceramics and its application, “International Conference on Emerging Trends in Nanomaterials and Devices (ICONMD-23)” to be conducted by the Department of Physics during 02.03.2023 & 03.03.2023
Research career opportunities, in National Workshop on Career Counselling, Personality Development & Interaction Sessions (CCPDIS-2023) organised by Mahila Mahavidyalaya, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India from 6-10 Feb 2023.
Defect assisted Dielectric, Optical and Magnetic properties of undoped and doped Sr2SnO4 Ruddlesden Popper Oxide, International e-Conference on Advanced Functional Materials and Optoelectronic Devices-2020, 13th to 15th June 2020 organized by VBSPU Jaunpur.
Energy Storage devices, National Science Day, 27th to 28th February 2020, organized by the Department of Physical Sciences, Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan.
Served as Session Chair in International Conference on “Advancement in Functional Materials” scheduled on 13th October 2025, organized by Prof. Rajendra Singh (Rajju Bhaiya) Institute of Physical Science for study and Research, Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University, Jaunpur, U.P., India.
Served as Session Chair in 12th International Conference on Nano and Materials Science (ICNMS2024) organized by Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand during January 12-15, 2024.
Serving as a Session Chair in 6th IEEE International Workshop on Recent Advances in Photonics (WRAP-2023) held during 07-09 December 2023.
Ruddlesden Popper Oxide ceramics and its application, IEEE-FDP-2022, 21st to 25th September 2022, Organized by E&ICT Roorkee and IIIT Allahabad.
One Week Online Faculty Development program on CASEMA (Current Advances in Science for Engineering & Medical applications: An Interdisciplinary approach) 2020 from 3rd -7th July 2020, organized by Kakatya Institute of Technology & Science, Warangal.
5 Days International Faculty Development Program entitled "Experimental Teaching - Corporate Cognizance" from 9 August 2021 to 13 August 2021, organized by Sri Ramakrishna College of Arts and Science, Nava Coimbatore.
FDP on Research Planning and Business Development Using IPR on 3 July 2021, organized by the Department of Physics, SRM TRP Engineering College, Trichy.
Participated in International Conference on Next-Gen Materials for Sustainable Future (ICNMSF-2026), and presented an oral presentation titled "Investigation of the dielectric and electrical properties of Sr1-xPrxTiO3 synthesized via solid state reaction”, during 04–06 May 2026 at Akal University, Punjab, India.
Participated in International Conference on Materials and Thermophysical Properties (ICMTP- 2024) under the auspices of RUSA 2.0 Programme and Thermophysical Society of India (TPSI), and presented an oral presentation titled “Enhanced mixed ionic and electronic conductivity of Cr-modified SrTiO3 perovskite ceramic as a solid electrolyte for IT-SOFC application”, during 21-23 November 2024 at University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India.
Participation in technical meet “Anveshan - 2019” organized by Department of Metallurgical Engineering, IIT (BHU) Varanasi, and presented an Oral Presentation titled “A detailed thermal analysis, structural and electrical properties of La-doped Sr2SnO4” on 31st March 2019, and received second prize in Best Oral Presentation.
Participated in International Symposium on “Materials & Technologies for Energy Conversion and Storage (M-TECS 2018)” organized by BARC and BRNS and presented a Poster and Oral presentation titled “A detailed thermal analysis, structural and electrical properties of La-doped Sr2SnO4” during 25th -29th September 2018.
Participated in the 20th symposia and workshop on Thermans-2016 organized by DAE and BRNS, and presented an oral presentation titled “Synthesis and characterization of BaSnO3 prepared using Sol-Gel Method” during 18-20 January 2016.
Participated in International conference on “Solid State Physics Symposium-2019” organized by BARC Mumbai and present a paper titled “Dielectric and Impedance Spectroscopy studies of Ba0.90Y0.10SnO3” during 18th – 22nd December 2019 in IIT Jodhpur.
Participated in International conference on “Solid State Physics Symposium-2018” organized by BARC Mumbai and present a paper titled “Structural and Optical properties of Eu doped at the site of Sr and Sn in Sr2SnO4 Layered Perovskite” during 18th – 22nd December 2018 in Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology.
Participated in National conference on “Recent Trends in Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science (CMPMS-2018)” organized by Department of Physics, Institute of Science BHU Varanasi India and present a poster on titled “Effect of Eu-doping at Sr-site and Sn-site of Sr2SnO4 layered perovskite” during 15th-16th Sept 2018.
Participated in National conference on “Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology (AMN-2018)” organized by Jaypee Institute of Information Technology (JIIT) Noida, India and delivered a talk on titled “Structural and magnetic properties of Nd-doped Sr2SnO4 layered perovskite” during 15th-17th March 2018.
Contribution paper is presented in International conference “5th International conference on Nanotechnology, Nanoscience and Advanced materials (ICNNAM)” organized by ICONTES Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with paper titled “Structural and Electrical Characterization of SrCeO3 and Sr2CeO4: A comparative study” during 01-02 February 2018.
Participated in International conference on “Solid State Physics Symposium-2017” organized by BARC Mumbai and present a paper titled “Structural, microstructural and electrical characterization of BaSnO3 and Ba0.90Y0.10SnO3 synthesized by solution combustion method” during 26th – 30th December 2017.
Participated in National Conference on National Seminar on Crystallography “NSC-46” and present a paper titled “Correlation between structural and optical properties of Eu-doped Sr2SnO4 phosphor material” during 9th-12th July 2017 in organized by School of Materials Science and Technology IIT (BHU) Varanasi.
Participated in International conference on Advances in Biological Systems and Materials Science in Nano-World “ABSMSNW” and present a paper titled “Effect of Eu doping on structure and optical properties of Sr2SnO4 phosphor material” during 19th-23rd February 2017 organized by Department of Physics, IIT (BHU) Varanasi.
Participated in Asian Conference on Solid State Ionics-2016 (ACSSI-2016) organized by IIT PATNA and present a paper titled “Synthesis and electrical characterization of Barium orthostannate” during 27-30 November 2016.
Participate in International Conference “Nanotechnology for better living” organized by IIT Kanpur and NIT Srinagar and present a paper titled “Synthesis and characterization of BaSnO3 and Ba0.90M0.10SnO3 (M: La, Y, Gd)” during 25-30 May 2016.
Participated in Workshop on Advance Ceramics and Nanotechnology (Theme Electroceramics), 4-5 Dec 2015 Dept. of Ceramic IIT (BHU) Varanasi-221005, presented Poster with titled “Low-Temperature Synthesis and Characterization of Nickel doped Barium Stannate.”
Participated in GIAN program on “Fuel Cell Technology” organized by IIT Gandhinagar in the collaboration of IIT Kharagpur and MHRD during 5-9 December 2016.
Participate in Workshop and Training program on “Latex and other useful software” organized by Institute of Agricultural Science BHU and Department of Statistics Institute of Science Varanasi during 09-24 November 2016
Participate in International school on “Ion beam in Material Science” organized by IUAC New Delhi during 22-27 September 2016.
Participated in Training and Workshop on “Advanced Microscopy and Imaging Techniques” jointly organized by DSS Imagetech Pvt. Ltd. and Olympus Medical System India Pvt. Ltd. and photometrics USA along with IIT BHU from 7th-8th August 2015.
Participated in Workshop on “Characterization and Functionalization of Nanomaterial” (CFN-2015) organized by Department of Physics Banaras Hindu University Varanasi during March 12-15, 2015.
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