• Ph.D. in Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India, 2009
  • Thesis Title: Large-mode area rectangular optical waveguides and fibres
  • Supervisor: Dr. Vipul Rastogi, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India

• M.Sc. in Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee  India, 2004
  • Thesis Title: Fabrication and characterization of Glass Waveguides
  • Supervisor: Dr. Vipul Rastogi, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India

• B.Sc. (Gold medalist) in Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry, DDU Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, India,  2002

---

• Assistant Professor: July, 2010 - Present, Department of Applied Physics, Delhi Technological University, Delhi, India
• Postdoctoral Researcher: January, 2010 - June, 2010, Research Institute for Solar and Sustainable Energies, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Korea
• Research Trainee: September, 2007 - December, 2007 (Under Indo-UK exchange program), Department of Electrical, Electronics & Information Engineering, School of Engineering and Mathematical  Sciences City University, London        
• PhD Researcher: 2004 to 2009, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India

 

---

COURSES TAUGHT AT DTU

---

THEORY:

• Undergraduate:
  • Applied Physics, 2011
  • Applied Physics (B.Tech. Evening), 2011-13 
  • Introduction to Computing, 2010-till date (Download Tutorial Sheets â–º)
  • Computational Methods, 2010-till date
• Postgraduate:
  • Optoelectronic Devices & Circuits, 2010-2015
  • Optical Communication System, 2012
  • Optical Electronics, 2012-till date
  • Fiber Optics, 2014-till date

• Undergraduate:
  • Applied Physics Lab
  • Introduction To Computing Lab 
  • Optics Lab (Download Manuals â–º)
  • Fiber optics and optical communication lab
• Postgraduate:
  • Optical Fiber Characterization Lab
  • Optical Communication Design and Simulation Lab

---

NEW COURSE/LAB DEVELOPED

---

THEORY:

---

• Faculty Incharge, Team DTU AUV (from 2014 -till date)
• Officer Incharge: Computational Lab
• Officer Incharge: Optics Lab (2010-till date)
• Officer Incharge: Fiber Optics and Optical Communication Lab (2010-2015)
• Officer Incharge: Optical Fiber Characterization Lab (2010-2015)
• Officer Incharge: Optical Communication Design and Simulation Lab (2010-till date) 
• Officer Incharge: Applied Physics Lab, B.Tech. Evening (2011-2015)
• Coordinator, M.Tech. (MOCE) (2010-2015)
• Coordinator, B.Tech. (EP-4th year)
• Co-CID, Department of Applied Physics  
• Departmental Placement Incharge 
• Member, Departmental Attendance Monitaring Committee
• Member, Syllabus revision committee
• Member, TIFAC, Centre of Excellence
• Member, SPIE DCE Chapter
• Member, OSA DCE Chapter

---

HONORS & AWARDS

---

• Session Chair in the One week FDP in the department of applied physics
• Guest Editor of SKIT Research Journal, ISSN 2278-2508.
• Awarded as Outstanding Reviewer by Optical Fiber Technology in June, 2016
• Member (Academic Expert) of the Project Monitoring & Review Committee (PMRC) of ongoing R&D project “Development of Pulsed Fiber Laser Sources-SPUND” DRDO, LASTEC since 2015.
• Member (Academic Expert) of the Project Monitoring & Review Committee (PMRC) of ongoing R&D project “Development of High Power Fiber Lasers -HPFL” DRDO, LASTEC since 2015.
• Member (Academic Expert) of the Project Monitoring & Review Committee (PMRC) of ongoing R&D project “Development of Multi Killowatt Fiber Lasers -MKFL” DRDO, LASTEC since 2015.
• Member, Selection board of JRF selection committee at DRDO LASTEC held on 27-28 Oct, 2015.
• Member, National advisory committee, International Conference on Recent cognizance in wireless communication & image processing-ICRCWIP-2014
• Member, Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Recent cognizance in wireless communication & image processing-ICRCWIP-2014
• Referee: Applied Optics, Optics Letter, Journal of Lightwave Technology, Journal of Infrared Physics & Technology, Optics Communication
• Postdoctoral fellowship by Korean Government in 2010
• Research Associateship by Council for Scientific and Industrial Research(CSIR)-2009 
• Young Scientist Award by Uttarakhand Government in 2008
• IITR –MHRD (Institute) Fellowship IIT Roorkee
• University Gold Medal in Mathematics
• Uttar Pradesh Government National Scholarship Holder

---

---

• OSA, Member
• OSI, Life Member
• ISTE, Life Member

---

SPONSORED RESEARCH PROJECTS

---

International                                                      "TUN-IND Bilateral Project" 

 PI: Dr. Ajeet Kumar, Co-PI: Prof. R. K. Sinha (Indian Side), PI: Dr. Rim Cherif, Co-PI: Dr. Mourad ZGHAL (Tunisian Side)

Title: Design, modeling and characterization of highly nonlinear fibers  for all-optical high bit-rate networks

Funding Agency: Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India, Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research of the Republic of Tunisia              

Amount and Time Period: Rs. 13.5 Lakh for 3 years (2013-2016) duration

National                                                 "Young Scientist Fast Track Project"

 Title: Specialty Large-Mode-Area Rectangular Waveguides and Fibers for High Power Applications

Funding Agency: Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India

Amount and Time Period: Rs. 24.5 Lakh for 3 years duration (2013-2017).

---

INNOVATIVE PROJECTS

---

NIDHI Prayas Scheme (iCreate Incubation Centre)

Faculty advisor: Dr. Ajeet Kumar

Students team:  Mr. Nishnat Singh Rana and Mr. Rudrev Dave

Mr. Nishnat Singh Rana and Mr. Rudrev Dave has been selected for support under the NIDHI Prayas Scheme of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India (March 2017) at iCreate. The team is working towards making an indigenous MULTI UTILITY SINGLE PLATFORM UNMANNED AERIAL PLATFORM and will be working on prototype development. The team will be working in Gujarat for 18 months with a funding of Rs. 10 lakhs. 

 

Spark-Up Idea (iCreate Incubation Centre)

Faculty advisor: Dr. Ajeet Kumar

Students team:  Mr. Nishnat Singh Rana and Mr. Rudrev Dave

Mr. Nishnat Singh Rana and Mr. Rudrev Dave have been selected for “​Multi Utility Single Platform Unmanned Aerial System” funding from iCreate (International Centre for Entrepreneurship and Technology) under Spark-Up Idea Fund Program at iCreate.

 

Team DTU-AUV

Faculty advisor: Dr. Ajeet Kumar

Students team leader:  Mr. Subham Sharma

For detailed information please visit the official webpage of Team DTU-AUV â–º

---

RESEARCH PUBLICATION

---

                                    Journal            Conference 

   International                                     38                                    53

   

     National                                            00                                    14

---

STUDENTS SUPERVISED

---

                                           Completed                             Ongoing                

   PhD                                        03                                                       04

   M. Tech                                  11                                                       04

   B. Tech                                   10                                                       03     

---

STUDENT'S ACHIEVEMENTS

---

• Mr. Nishant Singh Rana and Mr. Rudrev Dave have received support under the NIDHI Prayas Scheme of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India (March 2017) at iCreate. The team is working towards making an indigenous MULTI UTILITY SINGLE PLATFORM UNMANNED AERIAL PLATFORM and will be working on prototype development. The team will be working in Gujarat for 18 months with a funding of Rs. 10 lakhs.
• Mr. Nishant Singh Rana and Mr. Rudrev Dave have been selected for  Spark-Up Idea Fund Program at iCreate. 
• Mr. A.G.N Chaitanya has received Best Oral presentation award in OSA Young Student Congress on Photonic Technology, MNIT, Jaipur, India, April 16 – 17, (2016).
• Ms. Purniya Jamatia has received Best Poster presentation award in OSA Young Student Congress on Photonic Technology, MNIT, Jaipur, India, April 16 – 17, (2016).
• Mr. Than Singh Saini has presented research paper in IONS ASIA-6 during 12th International conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, IIT Kharagpur, December 13-16, 2014 and has received Best Paper Presentation award.
• Mr. Than Singh Saini  has presented research paper in SPIE Winter School on Photonics (WSP-2013) at IISER-Kolkata, 26^th – 29^th Dec. 2013 and won Best poster presentation award
• Ms. Vinita Dahiya  has been awarded by SPIE, an SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship in the amount of $2000 in 2013.
• Ms. Vinita Dahiya has been awarded by SPIE, Student Author Travel Grant Award  for SPIE Optics + Photonics in the amount of $700 in 2013.
• Mr. Than Singh Saini has been awarded by SPIE, Travel Grant Award  for SPIE Optics + Photonics in the amount of $2500 in 2013.
• Ms. Vinita Dahiya and Mr. Than Singh Saini participated in  Optics Outreach Games 2013 organized by SPIE at San Diego, CA, USA and received "Visitor's Choice Award".
• PHOTONICS 2012Awards: Mr. Akshit Peer & Mr. Gautam Prabhakar, Delhi  Technological University won the PHOTONICS 2012 Best Paper Award (second prize) for the paper entitled “A Microstructured Dual-Core Dispersion Compensating Fiber Design for Large-Mode-Area High-Negative Dispersion” at the International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics (PHOTONICS 2012) held at IIT Madras. The award consists of a Citation and Rs. 5000 cash. The co-authors of the paper are Dr. Vipul Rastogi and Dr. Ajeet Kumar.
• Mr. Akshit Peer & Mr. Gautam Prabhakar presented a paper titled “Finite Element Analysis of Solid-Core Photonic Crystal Fiber" in IEEE-Students Conference on Engineering and Systems (SCES 2012) at Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad and won the Best Paper Award.
•  Mr. Akshit Peer & Mr. Gautam Prabhakar presented a micro-talk on “Analysis of Solid Core Photonic Crystal Fiber using FEM” at IONS Conference (December 1-2, 2011) in Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and won the first prize.
•  Mr. Akshit Peer & Mr. Gautam Prabhakar presented a paper on “Analysis of Solid Core Photonic Crystal Fiber using FEM” at ENCOMIUM, the annual technical festival of Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi on January 28, 2012 and won the first prize.