FACULTY
Dr. Ramesh Kumar Sonkar received his B.Tech degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee in 2001, M.Tech and Ph.D. degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 2003 and 2011 respectively. He joined IIT Guwahati as an Assistant Professor in 2011. His research areas cover Silicon Photonics, Integrated Photonics, Fiber lasers Optoelectronics Device Characterization and Fabrication, Microelectronics and III-V Compound Semiconductors, Photonics Integrated Circuits, Fiber Optics Communication, Non-invasive measurement of physiological parameters of human blood, Structural health monitoring, Antennas, Vacuum Electron Devices.
Phone: 0361-2582535
Email ID: sonkar@iitg.ac.in
PhD Students
Dept. of EEE, IITG
Soibam Aruna Chanu received her B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from National Institute of Technology Manipur in 2015, M.Tech degree in Microelectronics and VLSI Design from National Institute of Technology Silchar in 2019. She joined IIT Guwahati as a Ph.D research scholar in July 2019. Her research interest includes Optoelectronics, Silicon photonics and Photonic crystals. She is currently working on Photonic Crystal MUX/DEMUX design on silicon photonics platform.
Phone: 0361-2583457
Email ID: s.aruna@iitg.ac.in
Dept. of EEE, IITG
Sidhartha Kumar Sahu completed his B.Tech degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from IIIT Bhubaneswar in 2014. He has earned his M.Tech degree in Communication and Networks specialization from NIT Rourkela in 2019. He joined IIT Guwahati in August 2020 as a Ph.D Research Scholar. Currently he is working on Substrate Integrated Waveguide fed Dielectric Resonator Antenna for Millimeter Wave Applications.
Phone: 0361-2583457
Email ID: ksidhartha@iitg.ac.in
Dept. of EEE, IITG
Shamshad Alam completed his B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology in 2017, and M.Tech in VLSI Design from National Institute of Technology Jalandhar in 2019. He later worked as Project Associate in NIT Jalandhar till 2021. He joined IIT Guwahati as a Ph.D research scholar in July 2021. His research interest includes Optoelectronics and Silicon photonics.
Phone: 0361-2583457
Email ID: a.shamshad@iitg.ac.in
Dept. of EEE, IITG
Anas Ashraf completed his B.Tech degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from United College of Engineering and Research, Prayagraj, in 2016. He pursued his M.Tech course in Electronics and Communication Engineering at Harcourt Butler Technical University, Kanpur, graduating in 2020. In December 2023, he joined IIT Guwahati as a Ph.D. research scholar. His research interests includes silicon photonics, with a focus on advancing photonic technologies for integrated systems and applications.
Phone: 0361-2583457
Email ID: a.anas@iitg.ac.in
Postdoc
November 2024
Institute Post-Doctoral Fellow, IIT Guwahati
2020
Assistant Professor, IIIT Bhopal
PhD Alumni
17th December 2022
Scientist E, SAMEER Centre for High Power Microwave Tube and Component Technology,SAMEER, IIT Guwahati
23rd March 2022
Assistant Professor, IIIT Guwahati
2nd March 2022
Photonic IC Design Engineer, Quanfluence
23rd December 2020
Post Doctorate Fellow, Tyndall National Institute, Cork
18th September 2020
Assitant Professor ,Depatament of Electronics and Communication enginering, Presidency University,Bangalore
M.Tech Students
Thesis: Using Quantum Key Cryptography for Key Management in Defence Encryption Systems
M.Tech Alumni
Digital design engineer, Qualcomm
Techinal lead, HCL Technology
Techinal lead, HCL Technology
Analog design engineer,TI Bangalore
Research Staff, Bharat Electronic Limited Bangalore
Senior Member Technical staff, Broadridge
RF-SW Engineer, Qualcomm
SDO OP Bahadurgarh,UHBVN,Haryana Govt
Junior Engineer ,Indian Railways
Senior Conversational AI Engineer, Quantiphi
Software Products and Platform Engineering Team lead, Accenture solutions private limited
Winter intern
Hanyang University, South Korea