Foreign Assignments
- Visiting Scientist: College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University China during October 03 to October 12, 2018 as Principal Investigator of BRICS Project (India-China and Russia) on Optical Nanoantenna.
- Visiting Scientist at St. Petersburg University of Information Technology, Mechanics and Optics, Russia during March 18 to March 26, 2017 as PI on Indo-Russia (DST-RMES) joint project on “All Dielectric, Plasmonic and Hybrid Photonic Nanostructures”.
- Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship (asInternational Educational Administrator) for acquiring firsthand knowledge and practices of emerging trends in Higher educational institutions (Chicago, Maryland, Nebraska, Northwestern, Illinois, Johns Hopkinson, Virginia University and many more) and university in USA, through International Institution of Education, Washington, USA and United States India Education Foundation (USIEF) in October-November, 2013.
- Keynote Speaker (Title: Photonic Crystal Based Nanophotonic Devices for Telecom and Sensing Applications) in 2010 International Conference on Nanotechnology, Optoelectronics and Photonics Technology (NOPT-2010) held in Singapore during February 26-28, 2010.
- Awarded Visiting fellowship from National Science Council and NTHU, Taiwan to explore joint research in the area of Photonic Crystal Waveguides and Devices at Electrical Engineering Department, NTHU, Taiwan during December 04-December 16, 2009.
- Awarded “EPFL-Switzerland/India Bilateral Invited Fellowship” to carry out joint research project in the area of Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser at Physics Department, EPFL Switzerland during September 29-October 13, 2009.
- Invited Participant in “Engineering Challenges of Solar Energy research in India” at Royal Society London organized by Royal Academy of Engineering, UK during September 25-27, 2009.
- Awarded “Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEngg.) Fellowship” under its Exchange program to carry out joint research project on the fabrication andcharacterization of Photonic Crystal Based waveguides and devices during June/July 2008at Optoelectronic Research Group, Glasgow University, U.K.
- Invited Fellowship from JapanSociety for Promotion of Science (JSPS)to carry out research in the area of “Multicore Photonic Crystal Fiber” for a period of three weeks in the month of January 2008 at Hokkaido University, Japan.
- Recipient of “Project Formulation Grant” as UKIERI Fellowship from British Council, India to formulate research proposal with first hand interaction with professors at Glasgow University, Cambridge University, University of Southampton, University of Bath and City University London, U.K. in the area of “ Fabrication of Photonic Crystal Waveguides for Telecom and Sensing Applications” for the year 2007.Visited these university and project proposal is prepared in the Month of May 2007 and availed in the year 2008 and 2009.
- Visited MIT, Harvard and Boston University (mainly labs related to the activities of Nano Photonics) in October 2005 for delivering invited talks and research collaboration as Academic Visitor in October 2005 including participation in International Conference “SPIE Symposium-Optic East 2005, held at Boston, USA.
- Visited Stanford University (mainly their labs in the area related to Optical Fiber Communication) in USA, as academic visitor in January 2002 during international conference “Photonic West-2002” at San Jose, CA.
- Visiting Scientist at University of Campinass and at Telebrass (Telecom Company of Brazil) in Campinass, Sao Palo, Brazil in the area of Semiconductor Microstructure Devices during January/February 1995.
- Participant and Speaker on Short-term courses on Telematics at Iranian Organization for Science and Technology &Iranian Telecom Research center at Tehran, Iran during November/December 1992.
- Visiting Scientist during Short-term course on Materials for Electronics: Growth Properties and Applications in November/December 1991 at International Centre for Science & High Technology c/ICTP-Trieste, Italy.
- Researcher, at Electronics Engineering Department, Kobe University, Japan for research assignment in the area of Nano Scale Optoelectronic Devices during April 1990-March 1991.
- Japanese Govt. Scholar at Osaka University for Foreign Studies, Osaka, Japan for six months course on Japanese Language, Culture and Business Practice, Visit of Opto-electronic Industries and acquaintance of R& D work in the area of Optical Communication during October 1989-March 1990.