Profile
Prof. Ravindra Kumar Sinha obtained M. Sc. (Physics) from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India, in 1984, and Ph.D. degree in the area of Fiber Optics and Optical Communication Technology from the IIT, Delhi, India, in 1990. He had held research and academic positions at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani, REC (now NIT) Hamirpur H.P., Delhi College of Engineering- DCE, University of Delhi and Delhi Technological University-DTU, Delhi. Currently, he is a Professor of Applied Physics and Chief Coordinator of TIFAC- Center of Relevance and Excellence in Fiber Optics and Optical Communications (Mission REACH Program of Technology Vision 2020, Govt. of India) at Delhi Technological University Delhi since October 2002.
Prof Sinha has served a full tenure of 03 years as Vice Chancellor of Gautam Buddha University- Greater Noida, UP during 2022-2025. He has served as (i) Director of CSIR-Central Scientific Instruments Organization (CSIO) Chandigarh (ii) Director (Additional Charge) of CSIR- CEERI Pilani and (iii) Director (Additional Charge) of CSIR-IMTECH Chandigarh..
He has also served as (i) Dean (Academic) (ii) Dean (Industrial Research and Development) and (iii) Head of Department, Applied Physics Department at DCE- University of Delhi & Delhi Technological University, Delhi. Prof. Sinha has served as an Outstanding Professor in Engineering Sciences, Member of Senate & Board of Studies of Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR, Govt. of India.
He is the author/co-author of over 400 research publications in the leading national and international journals and conference proceedings, 14 Book chapters/Books and originated 07 patents. He has supervised 27 Ph.D. thesis and 22 R&D projects sponsored by Government and Private Organizations.
Prof. R. K. Sinha has been awarded (i) Outstanding Contribution to National Development Award 2025 by IIT Delhi Alumni Association (ii) Distinguished Faculty Award 2025 by DCE-DTU Alumni Association (iii) Research Excellence Award of DTU every year since 2020 (iv) Cumulative Scitation and Impactful research award 2024 (v) Gold-Skoch Award 2020 for Defense Technology (vi) CSIR- Technology Award 2018 (vii) Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) Biman- Behari Sen memorial award for research in 2012 (viii) Emerging Optoelectronics Technology Award [(CEOT-IETE, India)]-2006 (ix) S. K. Mitra Memorial Award for in Best Research Paper in IETE Technical Review 2002 and (x) his coauthored research papers have won several Best Research Paper Awards for his students which includes Swarna Jayanti Puraskar (Gold Medal) from the National Academy of Sciences for the year 2001, Reliance Technology Award 2010, SPIE 2014 award and OSI 2014 award.
Prof. Sinha is a Fulbright Scholar – a recipient of Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship as an International Educational Administrator in 2013. He has also been awarded (i) National Science Council Taiwan Fellowship (ii) Indo-Swiss Bilateral Research fellowship (iii) Royal Academy of Engineering (U.K) Fellowship(iv) the Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) Invited Fellowship (v) UKIERI fellowship from British Council of India (vi) Academic Visitor of Stanford University in 2002 and an Academic Visitor of MIT, Harvard and Boston University in 2005 (vii) Visiting Scientist fellowship-1991 at ICTP Trieste, Italy, (viii) ICTP Visiting Scientist at IROST Fellowship in 1992 (ix) ICTP Visiting Scientist at University of Campinas in Brazil in 1995 (x) Japanese Govt. Scholarship in 1989- 1991 to carry out research at Osaka and Kobe University in Japan.
He is a (i) Fellow of Optica (Optical Society of America-OSA), (ii) Fellow of SPIE- The International Society of Optics and Photonics USA, (iii) Fellow of the IETE (India), and a (iv) Distinguished Fellow of Optical Society of India. Professor Sinha is also Faculty Adviser of SPIE-DCE Chapter and Optica/OSA- DCE Chapter at DTU, Delhi. Professor Sinha has been actively involved in supervising several innovative projects on the design and development of unmanned and autonomous vehicles and in the establishment of Knowledge and Innovation Park with focus on student led innovation and product development at DCE/DTU Delhi. He has successfully mentored technology development and Commercialization of 39 technologies and over 50 MoUs during his stint as Director, CSIR-CSIO Chandigarh and as Vice Chancellor of GBU, Greater Noida, UP.
He is recognized as top 2% influential scientists in the world in Optoelectronics and Photonics based on publications originated by Stanford University Faculty & Elsevier publisher since year 2019 onwards.
His major research area is Fiber Optics and Photonics and currently working on Nano-photonic Devices for Telecom and Sensing Applications.