Work Experience
Since Aug 2021 - Researcher (Optical Team Lead), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia.
(2019-2021) - Postdoctoral Research Fellow, National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU), Taipei, Taiwan.
(Aug 2019) - Visiting Researcher, Warsaw University of Technology (WUT), Poland.
(2016-2019) - Research Assistant, National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU), Taipei, Taiwan.
(2013-2015) - R&D Engineer, Appasamy Associates, Chennai, India.
Education
(2015-2019) - PhD from Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering, National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU), Taipei, Taiwan.
(2011-2013) - Masters of Technology (MTech) from Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IITM), India.
(2005-2009) - Bachelors of Engineering (B.E) in Electronics and Communication under Anna University, Chennai, India.
Awards and Honors
2019 - ‘Outstanding Graduate Award’ from Ministry of Education-Taiwan, for outstanding academic and competition achievements while studying in Taiwan.
2019 - Supporting Grant from CTCI group for excellence in research.
2019 - Won funding from Government of Poland under PROM Programme to visit Warsaw University of Technology, Poland.
2018 - Received prestigious Taiwanese award ‘CTCI Research Scholar Award 2018’ to honor my outstanding performance and excellence in Research.
2018 - ‘Excellence in Oral Presentation’ award in The International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, PHOTONICS2018, India.
2017 - ‘Best Student Paper Award’ in Optics and Photonics Taiwan, International conference (OPTIC 2017).
2016 - ‘NTNU Outstanding Studentship Award’ for the spring semester of 2015-16.
(2015-2019) - India-Taiwan merit scholarship ‘National Taiwan Scholarship 2015-19’ to pursue Doctoral studies.
2011 - Secured 97.7 percentile in ‘Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE)’.
Position and Responsibilities
2023 - Guest Editor, Special Issue on Research in Computational Optics, Photonics.
2023 - Chair, International Conference on Holography Meets Advanced Manufacturing. Feb (20-22), 2023.
2021 - Guest Editor, Special Issue on Digital Holography: Development and Applications, Journal of Imaging.
2020 - Session chair Presider, International Conference on Information Photonics 2020 (IP'20).
(2018-2021) - Served as a Coordinator for Taiwan Educational Experience Program (TEEP).
2019 - Organizing head for ‘Taiwan-Japan joint international workshop – 2019’
2019 - Organizing head for ‘Taiwan-Poland joint international workshop – 2019’