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Research Group
 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.
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Current Students
Current
PhD Scholars:
 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
 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
 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
Personal Webpage: https://dbiswas2.odoo.com/
 Sourodipto Das
Sourodipto Das 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 smart window design for photonic
applications.
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SPkCfXwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
 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.
 Barun Dhabal
Barun Dhabal is a full-time Ph.D. Scholar at IIT Guwahati
under Dr. Debabrata Sikdar. He received his B. Tech
degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Techno Engineering
College Banipur, North 24 Parganas, India, under
the university of MAKAUT in the year 2020 with Tuition Fee Waiver (AICTE) and
the M.Tech. Degree in Communication and Signal
Processing Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Silchar, India, in 2022 with MHRD GATE Fellowship. He has
worked as an Antenna Design Engineering Intern at iSync-iLogitron
Technologies, Agartala, Tripura, India with effect from 01-09-2021 to
30-11-2021. His research interests include Microstrip Patch antenna design,
Radar cross section reduction, metamaterials and metasurfaces
are transforming photonics with their innovative applications.
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/barun
Current M.Tech. Students:
 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
Project Engineer
 Dr. Amit Baran Dey
Dr. Amit Baran Dey received his B.Tech. degree from the Electronics
and Telecommunication Engineering Department, Assam University, Silchar, in 2015, and the M.Tech.
degree from the Electronics and Communication Engineering Department,
National Institute of Technology Silchar, in 2017.
He also completed his Ph.D. degree in Computation Electromagnetics from
Electronics and Communication Engineering Department, National Institute of
Technology Silchar, 2022 and has been awarded with IEEE ComSoc
Graduate Congress, GraTE-7 Award for getting recognized
as the TOP THESIS work for the
year 2022. He has published over 12 research papers including conferences and
reputed journals. His current research interests include, metamaterial based
wearable antennas, metamaterials for enhancing SNR of MRI machines, multiband
and quad-port MIMO antenna systems, machine learning and deep learning
algorithms assisted for disease detection, design and application of
microwave sensors for medical diagnosis. Dr. Dey is currently associated as a
Regular Reviewer of the IEEE
TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNA AND PROPAGATION, IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL,
Wireless Personal Communication, Qeios, Optical and
Quantum Electronics, Journal of Infrared, Millimeter,
and Terahertz Waves etc. Currently he is working on metamaterial-based
applications in magnetic resonance enhancement and machine learning based
metamaterial designs.
Google Scholar: - https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=poLRroYAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Project
Staff/ JRF
Nil
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Alumni
Former PhD
Scholars:
 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
Former 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
 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.
Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0xfZjb8AAAAJ&hl=en
Current Affiliation: He is currently working as a PhD scholar
(with Prof.
Ranjan Singh) at the Centre for
Disruptive Photonic Technologies, Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore.
 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.
 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 at Innominds Software.
 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.
 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
 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)
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.
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