Academic Career :
2016 - Present
Assist. Professor
Physical Sciences
IISER Mohali, Punjab (India)
About main research area
Our current research focuses on integrating fundamental principles from physics, applied mathematics, engineering, and biology. By combining deep insights from these interdisciplinary domains, we aim to design and develop advanced scientific and engineering tools and instruments for diagnostic applications.
2015 - 2016
Assist. Professor at IIT Hyderabad
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Hyderabad (India)
Research Interest
Bio-Nanophotonics is a prominent interdisciplinary research domain, and our laboratory is actively engaged in designing and developing advanced optical and ultrasound-based tools, sensors, measurement protocols, and computational algorithms within the framework of biophysics and bioengineering. Our research aims to address critical health-related challenges, including angiogenesis in solid tumors, joint-related arthritis, inflammation, and related pathophysiological conditions.
Our work involves the application of partial differential equations (PDEs), inverse problem methodologies, and soft radiation techniques—such as electromagnetic waves, ultrasound, optical signals, and electrical currents—to model tissue functionality for disease diagnosis in living subjects. To support these activities, the laboratory is equipped with state-of-the-art lasers, electronic and RF systems, ultrasound transducers, and high-performance computing facilities for solving complex PDEs and inverse problems.
Researchers and students whose interests and skill sets align with these research directions are encouraged to express their willingness to collaborate by contacting us.
. If your interest and skill sets are aligned with our research activities then please do not hesitate to write to us your willingness. In nutshell the keywords of our research activities are the following:
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1. Algorithms, Soft radiation, and Physics
2. Wavefront shaping for next-generation deep tissue microscopy
3. Engineering Physics and instrumentation & its design
4. Numerical methods for partial differential equations (EM-wave, Sound wave, diffusion equation, Radon transformations, etc)
5. Inverse problem and defect detection
6. RF signal processing
7. MRI
8. Electronics and design for DAQ development
9. 3D printing for multidisciplinary problems
10. Programming language and Machine learning, AI.
11. Multi-channel DAQ with FPGA for Sonar application.
2015 - 2015
Postdoc (hPAM, US)
NUS, Singapore
2012 - 2014
Postdoc (PACT, US)
UT, Netherlands
Education
2006 (Aug) - 2012 (Jan)
PhD (Physics) (jointly with dept of Instrumentation & applied physics and Civil Engi)
Indian Institute of Science, (IISc) Bangalore, India
2004 - 2006
M.S (Physics)
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, India
2001-2004
B.Sc (Physics)
Presidency College, Calcutta, India
Teaching Contribution:
List of courses taught, new courses proposed and new innovative strategies adopted for teaching:
I have taught the following courses in the last eight years:
PHY312 Advance electronics and instrumentation: 2017-219, 2021 to 2022 (Lab set-Up, new Innovative approaches are adopted, designed experiments and manual for lab from scratches )
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IDC211 Workshop Training : 2016-2018, 2021-2023
IDC622: Basis for Medical Diagnostics : 2016,2018.2020, 2022 ( proposed new IDC course)
PHY111: Mechanics Lab: 2022
PHY102: EM theory: 2023-2025
Co-Instructor in the Following labs:
PHY311: Advance Optics Lab 2016-2019, 2022-23
PHY201 : Physics Laboratory III : 2024
PHY411 : Nuclear physics lab: 2022
New innovative strategies and practical approaches are adopted in the PHY312 course where both theory and hands-on experiences are infused. The course curriculum of PHY312 has been designed from scratch to give the full idea and experiences of both electronics, automation and advanced instrumentation for aiding modern day advanced research. A complete design & development of the lab and the procurements of each components are carrried out as per the experiments designed. A detailed lab manual for each experiment is written by me. I tried to teach in a concept-based, hands-on learning-based demonstration manner rather than memorization. As a part of the course, I gave the students both lab based basic building blocks of each experiment that needs to be performed on the workbench and thereafter, evaluated them based on their understanding of the concepts. A theoretical concept based Lecture for the advanced electronics and instrumentation class has been given prior to starting the weekly scheduled experiments so that the students can understand the steps and concepts while doing the hands-on experiments.
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-- Service in administrative positions within IISER Mohali
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Served as the Faculty co-ordinator for the Institute Summer Intern Research program, 2017-2018
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Served as organizing committee member from Physical sciences for monitoring/ arranging Institute Open day in 2017 Sept
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Served as Institute ethic committee of IISERM for one year 2016-2017
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Served as the KVPY Interview Committee Member from 2017-18
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Served as the Zonal ( IISER- Mohali is the nodal head for North Zone) Co-ordinator for all india Joint Entrance Screening Test (JEST) for PhD admission from year 2019- 2025
Served as the Institute Representative (IR) for Joint Entrance Screening Test (JEST) in the years 2017, 2018 and 2019
-- Other services within IISER Mohali (e.g. committee work, set up of central labs, software, network, testing, maintenance and operation of facilities, mentoring startups, service to the senate/faculty, department service, etc.)
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Setup of Advance electronics and Instrumentation Lab, Later upscaling the lab
capacity from 44 students to 80 students
2. Served as the departmental Ph.D and Int-PhD Interview coordinator
from 2017-18
-- Professional service (Professional committee work, conference organization other than that reported above)
A national level workshop on Photonics and Imaging Devices on 09-10, July 2024 at IISER Mohali has been organised by Dr. SK Biswas and his Lab. Both poster sessions and a series of scientific lectures on recents progress in photonics, device and imaging across the multidisciplinary field are delivered. Several renowned faculty from IITs (IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT-Ropar) and CSIR lab have joined the workshop. In this workshop, we have showcased our lab research work and given demonstrations of our developed products.
Website url for the workshop is as follows:
Some of our selected Work:
