Areas of Interest:

Packaging of Optoelectronic Devices and Systems such as Fiber Optic Receivers, Fiber Bragg Gratings, Optical Interconnects, Optical Sensors and Optical Computers.

Design and Fabrication of Low-Cost Optical Sensors, Optical Sensing and Measurements for Industrial Applications, Optoelectronic Instrumentation.

Measurement of Dielectric Constant or Refractive Index of Biological and Organic Materials.

Modeling and CAD of Optoelectronic Systems and MEMS Devices.

Optical Signal Processing and Computing

Academic Background:

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, April 1984. (GPA 4.0/4.0)

Carnegie-Mellon University , Pittsburgh , PA.

M.S. in Electrical Sciences, May 1980. (GPA 4.0/4.0)

State University of New York , Stony Brook , NY .

B. Tech., Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, June 1979. (1st class, 83.83%)

Indian Institute of Technology , Kharagpur , India .

Higher Secondary (Science), March 1974. (91.4%, 1st out of 143,000 candidates).Ballygunge Govt. High School , Calcutta , West Bengal Board of Secondary Education.

Professional Profile & Experience

Head of Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur (Jan. 2003 - present).

Professor of Department of Electrical Engineering , IIT Kanpur (Dec. 1995 - present). Also associated with the Interdisciplinary Centres of Laser Technology and Mechatronics , IIT Kanpur.

Head of Centre for Laser Technology and Laser Technology Programme, IIT Kanpur (Jan. 1995 - Apr. 1998).

Associate Professor of Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur (Aug. 1993 - Dec. 1995).Main Activities in IIT Kanpur

Senior Fellow in School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Division of Communication Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (July 2000 - July 2001).

Senior Fellow in School of Mechanical and Production Engineering, Div. of Engineering Mechanics, Nanyang Technological University , Singapore (July 1999 - June 2000).

Activities in NTU

Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iowa , Iowa City (June 1986 - Aug. 1993).

Research performed in Univ. of Iowa

Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Allentown (May 1984-May 1986). R & D in Bell Labs.

Research Assistant, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Eng. , Carnegie-Mellon University , Pittsburgh (Sept. 1980 - April 1984).