Awanish Pandey completed his under-graduation (B .Tech.) in Electronics and Communication from Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur in 2013. As a B. Tech. student, he worked in the field of designing optical frequency antenna on Insulator-Metal-Insulator (IMI) material platform. He was a recipient of Indian Academy of Science internship at Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and also worked as project staff at National Institute of Science Education and Research from 2013-2014. In 2014, he joined Photonics Research Laboratory at IISc as a Ph.D. student. His research areas include exploring/fabricating novel on-chip wavelength selective device designs for various optical signal processing applications.

Additional Info: He has been an active member of IEEE and has constantly volunteered for IEEE-IISc activities. He served as Vice-president of IEEE-IISc chapter from 2016-2017. Apart from academics, Awanish has represented his district in state athletics competition and is an active participant in various athletics activities going on in and around Bengaluru. Contact details: awanish.iisc@gmail.com; awanish@cense.iisc.ernet.in; 8762262341

Research:

Optical signal processing is continuously progressing towards overcoming the limitations posed by electronics in high capacity networks for future communication. Wavelength selective devices form key components of photonic integrated circuits to carry out on-chip linear and non-linear signal processing. In our research, we explore novel designs based on microring resonators, arrayed waveguide gratings, planar/concave gratings and hybrids of aforementioned geometries for various wavelength selective applications. In particular, we are currently exploring the application of the devices in fields like microwave signal processing, sensor interrogation, (de)multiplexers and wavelength multi-casting.