Dr Ravi Kumar
Research Interests:
Optical information processing, digital holography, holographic Imaging, diffractive optics, biomedical optics, optical microscopy, image processing, computational/optical imaging, quantitative phase imaging, optical metrology, optical instrumentation, etc.
Education:
Ph.D. in Physics (June, 2018)
Department of Physics
Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, India
Advisor: Dr. Basanta Bhaduri
Thesis title: Investigations in Optical Image Encryption for Security Enhancement
M.Sc. in Applied Physics (2015)
Department of Applied Physics
Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, India
Formerly Known as: Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, India
Awarded with distinction, CGPA 9.09
Bachelors of Education (B.Ed., 2013)
Maharshi Dayanad university, Rohtak, India
B.Sc. (Hons) in Physics (2012)
Department of Physics
Sri Venkateswara College, New Delhi
University of Delhi, India
Experience:
Assistant Professor (August 2022 - till now)
Department of Physics
SRM University - AP, Andhra Pradesh, India
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, (November 2020-continuing)
Electro-Optics Laboratory
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Supervisor: Prof. Joseph Rosen
Post-doctoral Research Fellow (4th November, 2019 - 4th November, 2020)
Smart Computational Imaging Laboratory
School of Electronic and Optical engineering
Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China
Supervisor: Prof. Chao Zuo
Post-doctoral Research Fellow (July 2018 – July 2019)
Research Engineer (January 2018 – June 2018)
Visiting PhD Student (July 2017 – December 2017)
Department of Mechanical Engineering
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Supervisor: Prof. Chenggen Quan
Awards and Fellowships
Selected for the prestigious PBC fellowship given to the Outstanding Post-Doctoral Researchers provided by the Planning & Budgeting Committee (PBC) of the Council for Higher Education (CHE), Israel, 2020.
India Top Cited Paper Award 2020, for two papers published in Journal of Optics (2017, 2018), as one of the top 1% most-cited papers in physics published over the period of 2017–2019 by IOP Publishing.
Best Poster award at national conference NCLC-2016.
Best Poster award at international conference q-PaCE-2016.
Junior Research Fellowship from IIT(ISM), Dhanbad, July2015-July 2017.
Master’s degree awarded with distinction.
MCM scholarship from ISM Dhanbad.
Qualified CSIR-UGC NET exam (All India Rank 84), December 2014.
CBSE national merit scholarship, 2010.
Professional Activities
Guest Editor for the special issue on "Research in Computational Optics" in the journal Photonics (Q2, IF=2.536), MDPI Publications.
Member of Optica (Formerly known as Optical Society of America (OSA)) and SPIE scientific societies.
Reviewer of the reputed international journals:
OSA Publications: Optics Express, Applied Optics, JOSA-A
IEEE publications: IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE Access
Elsevier Publications: Optics and Lasers in Engineering, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, Computers & Electrical Engineering
IOP Publications: Journal of Optics, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Journal of Physics: Photonics, Physica Scripta
Springer Publications: Applied Physics B, Sadhana (by Indian Academy of Sciences)
Others: Optica Applicata, Recent Advances in Computer Science and Communications etc.
Technical committee member (TCM), International Conference on “Trends in Computational and Cognitive Engineering (TCCE)”, Central University of Haryana, Mahendergarh, India, 28th – 30th November 2019.