Prof. Ravindra Kumar Sinha

R. K. Sinha received M. Sc. degree in physics from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India, in 1984, and Ph.D. degree in Fiber optics and Optical communication from the IIT, Delhi, India, in 1990. During 1989–1991, he was a Postdoctoral Research Student at Osaka University for Foreign Studies, Osaka, Japan, and Electronics Engineering Department, Kobe University, Japan. He has also held visiting scientist appointments at ICTP-Italy in 1991 and the University of Campinas, Brazil in the year 1995. He had been an academic visitor to leading university of the world which includes, MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Boston, Cambridge, Glasgow, Southampton, Bath, London, Kobe, Osaka, Tokyo, Hokkaido, Singapore, National Tsing Hua University, NTU Taiwan and EPFL Switzerland, etc. for research collaboration, delivering seminar/invited lectures. He had held various research and academic positions at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, BITS Pilani and REC (now NIT) Hamirpur during 1991-1998.He has served as a Director of CSIR-Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (CSIO) Chandigarh, CSIR-CEERI Pilani, and CSIR-IMTECH.
Currently, he is a Professor of Applied Physics Department & Chief Coordinator of TIFAC–Centre of Relevance and Excellence (CORE) in Fiber Optics and Optical Communication at Delhi Technological university (Formerly known as Delhi College of Engineering, University of Delhi), Delhi. He has also served as Head-Applied Physics, Dean(IRD) and Dean ( Academics) of DCE and DTU Delhi.
He is the author or co-author of more than 350 research publications in Journals and Conference Proceedings. He has supervised 18 Ph.D. thesis and over 22 R&D sponsored projects and mentored for 39 technologies transfer.
Prof. R. K. Sinha has been awarded several national and international awards and fellowships for his research work in the area of optics and photonics. His current research interests are Photonic Crystal and Metamaterial-based Devices.