Present Positions
- Vice Chancellor: Gautam Buddha University (Established by UP Act No. 9 of 2002)-Greater Noida Gautam Buddha Nagar, U.P.-201312
- Chairman: Noida and Greater Noida Sub Education Committee, IIDD, Govt. of UP
- Secretary: Gautam Buddha Education Society
- Member: Expert Committee for selection of Project Proposal in the areas of Aerospace, Electronics, Instrumentation and Strategic Sectors of CSIR labs since March 2022
- Professor (On lien): Department of Applied Physics, Delhi Technological University, Delhi since October 18, 2002 & Chief Coordinator-TIFAC-Center of Relevance and Excellence in Fiber Optics and Optical Communication at DCE/DTU, Mission REACH, Technology Vision 2020, Govt. of India.
- Chairman: Monitoring Committee of CSIR-NIMTLI (New Millennium Indian Technology Leadership Initiative) project on Design and development of a Portable Personal Air Purifying Respiratory Device.
- Chairman: Review Committee of Design and Development of High Power Liquid Laser Source, CHESS of DRDO September 2021
- Chairman: Selection Committee of Best Ph.D. thesis of AcSIR 2020 across all disciplines of all 38 labs of CSIR.
- Member: Monitoring committee of Mission Projects on Medical devices across 08 labs of CSIR
- Member: Board of Studies-Physical Sciences, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR, India
Positons/Responsibility held in recent (2015-2020) past:
- Director, CSIR Central Scientific Instruments Organisation(CSIO), Sector 30C, Chandigarh during Julu 01, 2015 to February 29, 2020, maintaining lien from the post of Professor of Applied Physics, Delhi Technological University, Delhi.
- Director, CSIR-Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute (CEERI), Pilani during November 06, 2015 to March 09, 2016
- Outstanding Professor- Engineering Sciences: AcSIR, CSIR, Govt. of India
- Director (Additional Charge), CSIR- Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH), Chandigarh during April 11, 2016 to January 22, 2017
- Chairman: Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), Chandigarh Region, Chandigarh (Immediate Past Chaiman 2018-2020)
- Member: Board of Governors, Punjab Engineering College (Deemed to be University), Chandigarh
- Member: Advisory Board of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research(CSIR)
- Member: Research Council, DRDO-LASTECH, Delhi
- Member: Research Council, DRDO-TBRL, Chandigarh
- Member: Research Council, CSIR- Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute (CEERI), Pilani
- Member: Executive Board, High Power Fiber Laser Research Program of LASTECH/DRDO
- Chairman: Review Meetings of R&D on High Power Fiber Laser, LASTECH since 2015 on wards
- Member: Research Council (as DG-CSIR Nominee), CSIR-National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies, New Delhi
- Member: Board of Governors, MRS Punjab Technical University, Bathinda
- Member: Board of Governors, Punjab State Council for Science and Technology, Chandigarh
- Member: Board of Governors, Pushpa Gujral Science City, Jalandhar
- Member: State Higher Educational Council, Union Territory Chandigarh
- Member: Skill Development Initiative, CSIR, Govt. of India
- Member: Skill Development Program and Indian Industry Conclave committee of IETE (India)
- Member: Technology Systems Development Board, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India with effect from December 2016 for a period of three years.
- Member: Publication Committee of IETE Journal of Research and IETE Technical Review Journal, IETE (India) Delhi since 2016
- Member: Governing Council, Center for Consultancy in Engineering, Punjab Engineering College (Deemed to be University), Chandigarh
- Member: CII National Committee on Higher Education
- Chief Coordinator: TePP (Technopreneur Promotion Program) Outreach cum Cluster Innovation Center at CSIO Chandigarh, DSIR, Govt. of India
- Member: Management Council, CSIR-National Physical Laboratory (NPL), Delhi
- Member: Management Council, CSIR-Central Electro-Chemical Research Institute (CECRI), Karaikudi, Tamilnadu (2015-2017)
- Member: Management Council of CSIR-Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute (CGCRI), Kolkata (2015-2017)
- Member: Management Council, CSIR - Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTech), Chandigarh (2015-2017)
- Member: Management Council, CSIR - Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute (CEERI), Pilani, Rajasthan
- Member: Board of Studies, School of Basic and Applied Sciences, GGS Indraprastha University, Delhi
- Member: Steering Committee, Scientific Research Infrastructure and Maintainance Network (SRIMAN), Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India (2018-2019)
- Chairman: Dispute Resolution Committee, Institute of Nan Science and Technology, Mohali for its campus construction
- Principal Investigator/Co PI:
i. BRICS project: “All Dielectric and Hybrid Nano-Antennas for multifunctional Sensors” (ITMO University, Russia, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, China and CSIR-CSIO, Chandigarh, India) through DST, Govt. of India, for the year 2017-2020.
ii. Indo-Russia under DST-RMES program during 2015-2018 on “Optical Nano Antenna”.
iii. “Solid tumor targeting using homing peptides and plasmonic photothermal technique” sponsored by Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, for the period 2018-2021 as Co-PI.
- Chairman: Organization of Training Program on Management of Scientific Research for Value Creation, CSIR, Delhi, India
- Expert Member: Formation of National System on Safety Regulatory Authority/Board, DRDO, Govt. of India
- Expert Member: Faculty of Science, University of Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra
- Member: Governing Council of National Research and Technology Consortium, Parwanoo, Govt. Of H.P.
- Member: Scientific Research and Infrastructure Maintenance and Network (SRIMAN), DST, Govt. Of India
- Chairman: Grievnace Redressel Committee, Institute of Nanoscience and Technology (INST) and Agency for construction of its main campus in Mohali.