Educator & Researcher
Dr. Neetu Prasad is a proactive lecturer and researcher with 8 years of experience in teaching electronics courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and 3 years of postdoctoral research experience at IIT Bombay. She is an experimental device physicist with interdisciplinary background in physics, electronics, material science, optical spectroscopy, device engineering and mathematical modelling using Machine learning approach. She authored over 12 scientific research articles published in reputed peer-reviewed journals & conference proceeding and two books entitled “Graphene: The wonder material shaping our future” and "Nanoelectronics: Pioneering the Future of Healthcare".
Doctor of Philosphy (PhD), Department of Electronic Science, University of Delhi, India (2011 to 2015)
Thesis Title : Electronic and Optical Characterization of Graphene and its Application
Advisor : Prof. P.K. Bhatnagar and Late Prof. P.C. Mathur
Masters of Science in Electronics, Department of Electronic Science, University of Delhi, India (2007 to 2009)
Project-1 : Use of Spur Line Resonator in design of high performance microstrip line low pass filter using high frequency structural simulator. (Advisor : Prof. A.K Verma)
Project-2 : 89C51 based microcontroller copier (Copy program from one microcontroller to another without use of PC interfacing), at Excel Technologies , Noida. (Advisor : Mr. Sunil Piplani)
Bachelors of Science in Electronics (Honours), Zakir Hussain College, University of Delhi, India (2004 to 2007)
Project: Microprocessor controlled temperature measurement system (Advisor : Dr. Anshu Rastogi)
Project Research Associate, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India (March, 2017 to Dec, 2018)
Project : Development of Lab-on-chip Platforms for Efficient and Automated Farming (LEAF) Agricultural Sensors (Funded by NanoMission, DST, Govt. of India)
PI : Prof. Tapanendu Kundu
Project Research Scientist, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India (Dec, 2015 to March, 2017)
Project : Prototype development of quantitaive measuement of Nitrogen, Phosphorous and Potassium (NPK) in soil by Multivariate analysis of diffused reflectance spectra of soil samples in NIR range (1100 - 2500 nm) (Funded by DST, Govt. of India)
PI : Prof V. Ramgopal Rao and Prof. Tapanendu Kundu
Visiting Faculty, (ECE), School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Bennett University, India
(Sept 2023 to May 2024)
Guest Faculty, Department of Electronic Science, University of Delhi, India
(Dec 2020 to May 2023)
Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics, Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi, India
(Sept 2019 to March 2020 )
Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics, Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi, India
(Feb 2015 to May 2015)
Assistant professor, Department of Electronics, SGBT Khalsa College, University of Delhi India
(Jan 2014 to May 2014)
Assistant professor, Department of Electronics, DDU College, University of Delhi, India
(Aug 2014 to Nov 2014)
(Aug 2009 to Nov 2010)
Fundamentals of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (B.Tech. CSE)
Digital Signal Processing
Mathematical and Computational Techniques (M.Sc. Electronics)
MATLAB (M.Sc. Electronics)
Specialisation in App Development and Mathematical modelling in MATLAB
Data Science (Bachelors mixed course)
Electronic Instrumentation (B.Sc. Electronics Honours)
Network Analysis (B.Sc. Electronics Honours)
Engineering Materials (B.Sc. Electronics Honours)
Electromagnetics (B.Sc. Electronics Honours)
Fundamentals of Programming Languages (B.Sc. Electronics Honours)
Electronic Fundamentals (Aircraft Maintainence Engineering)
Electrical Fundamentals (Aircraft Maintainence Engineering)
Supervised various MATLAB based GUI projects of M.Sc. Electronics Students based on audio signal processing (Published of MATLAB file exchange): Satellite-Debris Conjunction Predictive Analysis, Speaker Identification by Voice Recognition, Digital Musical Signal Generation, Digital Audio Equaliser, Gender recognition by speech signal processing etc. (2023)
Supervised six Embedded system/IOT/Robotics based projects of M.Sc. Electronics Students: Direct Laser writer, Smart Attendance system, AI based smart traffic light, Smart geofencing device, APP based smart ECG system, Home automation. (2022)
Supervised fifteen MATLAB based GUI projects of M.Sc. Electronics Students: Data Fitting, RLC Calculator, Mixing Problem Solver, System of Linear Algebraic Equation Solver, Planet Position Predictor, Semiconductor Device Parameter Calculator etc. (2021)
Mentored a Ph.D. student on "Studies on role of Grapphene in improving the performance of orgainic photovoltaic devices" at Department of Electronic Science, University of Delhi. (2015-2019)
Mentored two M.Sc. Physics students on their project work based on “Graphene Oxide-Based Device Fabrication and Its Characterisation” at Department of Physics, IIT Bombay, India. (2017-2018)
Lead the team of three researchers during my postdoc at IIT Bombay in project “Prototype Development for Quantitative Measurement of NPK by Multivariate Analysis of Diffused Reflectance Spectra of Soil”. (2016-2018)
Mentored two M.Sc. Electronics Students in project work on “Graphene Based Vapour Sensor” at Department of Electronic Science, University of Delhi, India. (2014)
Device Fabrication: MBURAN glovebox coupled Thermal Evaporator and spin coater, Oxygen Plasma Asher, Electron Beam Lithography (RAITH-150), Photolithography (Double-sided Aligner: EVG-620).
Electrical Device Characterisation: Probe station with Keithley 4200 and switch matrix system for FET and J-V measurements, Physical Property Measurement System
Opto-Electronic Device Characterisation: Solar Simulator, solar cell External quantum efficiency measurement (EQE) setup, Electro-Luminiscence,
“I indigenously Developed an optoelectronic measurement system for in-situ measurement of optical absorption (in reflection and transmittance mode) of the Graphene Oxide thin film based device during electric field induced reduction process”.
Material Characterisation: Shimadzu UV-Vis Spectrophotometer, Shimadzu Spectro-flouro- photometer, UV-Vis and NIR Spectrometer, Raman Spectroscopy, Olympus Optical Microscope, Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Atomic Force Microscope (AFM), Scanning Tunnelling Spectroscopy (STS)
Programming & software Skills: C, C++, Python, MATLAB, Origin, Unscrambler (Multivariate data analysis software), Machine Learning
Received " Excellence in Teaching Award" at School of Aeronautics (Aircraft Maintainence Engineering Institute), Neemrana, Rajasthaan, India (2010)
Received Junior research Fellowship, University Grants Commission, Govt. of India (2013)
Qualified National Eligibility Test for Assistant Professorship, University Grants Commission, Govt. of India (2013)
My project entitled "Study of electrical transport properties of single layer grpahene" received complete funding for experimental research (Fabrication & Characterization) at Center of Excellence in Nanoelectronics (CEN), IIT Bombay under Indian Nanoelectronics Users Programme (INUP), Govt. of India (2012)
Received financial assistance from IIT Bombay for attending and presenting my research work at International conference "Imagine Nano 2018: Graphin 2018", Bilbao, Spain (2018)