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Text Box:  Dr. Debabrata Sikdar (Supervisor)

Dr. Sikdar is a young academic researcher with interests focused mainly on the emerging research areas of plasmonics and metamaterials. He specializes in developing theory, modelling and simulation of novel nano-optical devices and nanoplasmonic systems. He also actively collaborates with many experimental groups from India and abroad (Universities in UK, Australia, China, and Russia).

He has pioneered many novel techniques in theory, modelling and simulation of light interaction with guided and scattering media, proposed new tuneable metadevices, and published over 70 research articles, four patent and one book chapter. He is currently the Principal Investigator of the Sikdar nanoplasmonics and Metamaterial Research Group (SNMG) based at the Department of EEE, IIT Guwahati.

 

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KeSASjMAAAAJ&hl=en

EDUCATION:

2012 - 2015: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from Monash University, Australia

2010 -2012: M.E. Communication Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani, India

2003 - 2008: B.E. (Hons.) Electronics and Instrumentation and M.Sc. (Hons.) Physics from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani, India

 

EXPERIENCE

05/2017 - Present: Assistant Professor, EEE Dept., Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG), India.

07/2018 - 07/2019: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow (MSCA-IF), Imperial College London, United Kingdom (On Academic Leave).

2015 - 2017: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Imperial College London, United Kingdom.

02/2010 - 08/2010: Visiting Lecturer, B. K. Birla Institute of Engineering & Technology, Pilani, India.

07/2008 - 12/2009: Engineer for HMI Automation, General Electric (GE) Energy, Hyderabad, India.

 

 

 

Current Students

 

Current PhD Scholars:

 

Text Box:  Tanmay Bhowmik

Tanmay Bhowmik received the B.E. degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Tripura Institute of Technology, Agartala, India, in 2013 and the M. Tech degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata, India, in 2016. From 2017 to 2018, he was a Project Associate in the Photonics Research Group at Electrical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. Since 2018, he is a full-time Ph.D. Scholar in the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India. His research interest includes the development of electrotunable metamaterials and metadevices for optical modulation using epsilon-near-zero materials.

Google Scholar:  https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rHPs8CQAAAAJ&hl=en

 

 

Text Box:  Jegyasu

Jegyasu received the B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Feroze Gandhi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Rae Bareli, India, in 2017 and the M.Tech. Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Delhi, India, in 2019. Currently, He is a Prime Minister Research Fellow (PMRF) in the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India. His research interests include metamaterial applications in magnetic resonance enhancement, surface plasmon resonance based photonic sensors and two dimensional materials plasmonics.

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ivT6MMMAAAAJ&hl=en

 

 

Text Box:  Dibaskar Biswas

Dibaskar Biswas is a full-time Ph.D. Scholar at IIT Guwahati under Dr. Debabrata Sikdar. He received his B. Tech degree from NIT Silchar in the year 2017. He then worked as a Site Engineer at Rail Vikas Nigam Limited from 2017-2018. He also got selected as a JRF in the DLRL lab of DRDO in 2021. He joined Ph.D. in the year 2021 December. Currently, he is a Prime Minister Research Fellow (PMRF) in the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India. His research interest includes metamaterials and topological photonics in the Terahertz regime.

Google Scholar:https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bpgjbCQAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

 

 

Text Box:  Sourodipto Das

Sourodipto received his B.E degree in Electronics and Tele-communication Engineering from Vidyavardhini's College of Engineering and Technology, Mumbai, India, in 2020. He completed his M.Tech degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of Information and Technology, Jabalpur, India in June 2022. From July 2022, he is a full-time Ph.D Scholar with specialization in Microelectronics, RF & Photonics from the EEE department of Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India. His research interest includes metamaterial and metasurfaces for photonic applications.

 

 

Tushar Shah

Tushar Shah is a full-time Ph.D. Scholar at IIT Guwahati under Dr. Debabrata Sikdar. He completed his B.E. degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Government Engineering College, Jagdalpur, Chhattisgarh, India, in 2016 and MTech. degree in Opto-Electronics & Laser Technology from Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India in 2020. He has qualified GATE 2018 & 2019, UGC-NET 2022 & 2023. He was working as Assistant Professor in GEC, Raipur from 12-10-2021 to 31-01-2023. His area of research interest includes Nano-photonics device fabrication.

 

 

 

Current M.Tech. Students:

 

Text Box:  Taraka Sriram (M.Tech. Thesis Work: from July 2023)

Taraka Sriram received his B.Tech from Gayatri Vidya Parishad College of Engineering (A), Visakhapatnam in Electronics and Communication Engineering in 2021. From 2022 July, he started his masters journey in Microelectronics, RF and Photonics in EEE department IIT Guwahati.

MTP Title: Reconfigurable metasurfaces and metamaterial-based devices

 

 

Research Assistant (Post-Doc Fellow: Project)

 

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Project Staff/ JRF

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Alumni

 

Former PhD Scholars:

 

Text Box:  Dr. Ashish Kumar Chowdhary

Dr. Chowdhary received the B.Tech. degree from the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India, in 2015. He worked in the telecom industry as a Solution Integration engineer with Ericsson India Global Services Pvt. Ltd. from 2015-2017. He joined Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India, in 2017, as a dual degree (MS + Ph.D.) research scholar in the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering and graduated on Jun-2022 with Best Thesis Award. His research interests include the development of smart optical devices and energy harvesting using plasmonic metamaterial absorber.

Current Affiliation: Presently he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. Previously, he was working as a Post-Doctoral fellow (with Prof. Ranjan Singh) at the Center for Disruptive Photonic Technologies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Google Scholar:  https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=l-jMHTUAAAAJ&hl=en#

Webpage: https://akcnitdgp.wixsite.com/dr-ashish-chowdhary

 

 

Research Assistant (Post-Doc Fellow: Project)

 

Dr. Priyanka Das

Dr. Priyanka received her B. Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata and M. Tech in RF and Microwave Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, India. She completed her doctoral research at the Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics, University of Calcutta, India in 2022. Her research areas include microstrip antenna design, RF passive circuit design, metamaterials and frequency selective Surfaces. From March 2022 to Dec 2022, she was working in a project at IIT Guwahati under the mentorship of Dr. Debabrata Sikdar.

Google Scholar Profile- https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=N1pwa9EAAAAJ&hl=en

 

Former M.Tech. Students

 

 

Text Box:  Bodhan Chakraborty (M.Tech. Thesis Work: from 2022-2023 onwards).

Bodhan received his B.Tech Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering in 2020 from the Institute of Radiophysics and Electronics, University of Calcutta. He completed his M.Tech with specialization in RF & Photonics from EEE Department of IIT Guwahati in July 2023.

MTP title: Nanophotonics-enabled metamaterial absorbers and all-optical modulators.

 

Text Box:  Aakash Kumar (M.Tech. Thesis Work: 2020-2021)

Aakash recieved his B.Tech Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering in 2019 from University of Engineering & Management Kolkata. He completed his M.Tech with specialization in RF & Photonics from EEE Department of IIT Guwahati in July 2021.

MTP title: Polarization-insensitive Broadband Plasmonic Metamaterial Absorber for Solar Cell Application and Optical Modulation.

 

Current Affiliation: Engineer-1 (Radio Model Development), Qualcomm Technologies, India.

 

 

Text Box:  Veluri Anurag Reddy (M.Tech. Thesis Work: 2020-2021)

Anurag received his B. Tech degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering in 2019 from VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad. He completed his M.Tech with specialization in RF & Photonics from EEE Department of IIT Guwahati in July 2021 .

MTP title: Design of broadband Plasmonic Metamaterial Absorber for Waste Heat Management.

Current Affiliation: Engineer (Trainee - Connected Devices), Innominds Software Pvt. Ltd., India.

 

 

Text Box:  Taru Dev Tewari (M.Tech. Thesis Work: 2021-2022)

Taru completed his M.Tech with specialization in RF & Photonics from EEE Department of IIT Guwahati in July 2022.

MTP topic: All-Optical Switching based on Nonlinear Phenomena of Epsilon-near-zero Materials.

Current Affiliation: MathWorks.

 

 

Text Box:  Ajay Kumar Gautam (M.Tech. Thesis Work: 2021-2022)

Ajay recieved his B.Tech Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering in 2018 from Feroze Gandhi Institute Of Engg And Technology, Raebareli. He completed his M.Tech with specialization in Signal Processing and Machine Learning from EEE Department of IIT Guwahati in July 2022.

MTP topic: Deep learning for photonic nano structure design.

Current Affiliation: Business Analyst at Tiger Analytics.

 

 

Project Staff

 

Text Box:  Bappaditya Shome

Bappaditya recieved his B.Tech Degree in Electrical Engineering in 2020 from Siliguri Institute of Technology, West Bengal.

From June 2021 to June 2022, he was working as a JRF(GATE) for the sponsored project entitled iDT-NaPaMeGs: Inverse design tool for nanoparticle meta-grid based photonic devices using computational electromagnetics and deep learning.

 

 

Undergraduate International Student (Interns)

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Jun is pursuing his bachelor's degree in engineering from Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea. His major is Electronics Engineering.

In January 2023, he has done his final year internship in optoelectronics devices in IIT Guwahati with Dr. Debabrata Sikdar.

 

 

 

Gallery

 

 

(Mr. Jegyasu was awarded with Best Paper Award in International Electrical Engineering Congress-iEECON2023)

 

 

 

(PhD Thesis Defense Dinner Party of Dr. Ashish Kumar Chowdhary)

 

 

(17 Jun, 2022: Dr. Ashish Kumar Chowdhary is the first PhD student graduated from the SNMG group with best thesis award)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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