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Group Leader (Supervisor)
 Dr. Debabrata Sikdar
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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Academic
Collaborations
Overseas
Collaborations
Advanced
Computing and Simulation Laboratory (Monash University, Australia)
CHENG NanoBionics
Group (Monash University, Australia)
Theoretical
Nanophotonics Group (Imperial College London, UK)
Edel Group (Imperial College
London, UK)
Indian
Collaborators
Prof. Parameswar K. Iyer,
Iyer Research Group (Department of Chemistry, IIT Guwahati)
Dr. Gagan Kumar, Terahertz Photonics and
Plasmonics Laboratory (Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati)
Dr. Prithwijit Guha (Department
of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, IIT Guwahati)
Dr. D. Pamu (Department of Physics, IIT
Guwahati)
Prof. Ratnajit Bhattacharjee (Department of Electrical and Electronic
Engineering, IIT Guwahati)
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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
Dr. Amit 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 14 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.
 Gulshan
Gulshan obtained his B.Tech and
M.Tech. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Rajasthan
Technical University, Kota, Rajasthan. He began his career as a Junior
Research Fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. There, he
contributed to the project titled Next
Generation Wireless Research and Standardization on 5G and Beyond within
the Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology and Management. Following
this, he worked at the Indian Institute of Technology, Patna, as a Junior
Research Fellow on the project 6G: THz
Test Bed with OAM. Currently, Gulshan is serving as an Associate Project
Engineer on a project focused on the Development
of Thin Flexible Metamaterials as Add-ons to MRI Scanners for Enhancing MRI
Efficiency, Affordability, and Accessibility. His research interests
include 5G millimeter-wave technology, Terahertz communication, Substrate
Integrated Waveguide (SIW) and Substrate Integrated Circuit Line (SICL)
antennas, and Planar Horn antennas.
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
Current Affiliation: Presently
she is an Assistant Professor in the School of Electronics Engineering
at Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai.
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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