Prof. Shankar Kumar Selvaraja is Prof. Ramakrishna Rao chair professor at the Centre for Nano Science and Engineering in the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. He is also the Chair of the National Nano fabrication Centre (NNfC) at IISc. Before joining IISc in 2014, he was with imec Belgium. He received his PhD for his work on wafer-scale fabrication technology for Silicon photonic integrated circuits from Ghent university-imec Belgium. He is an alma mater of Bharathiar University, College of Engineering Guindy and University of Twenty the Netherlands. He has spent over 15 years in Silicon and integrated photonic developing state-of-the-art CMOS process and device technology for high-speed optical interconnect and sensing application. He has published over 200 research articles in international journals and conferences and six international patents. He is a recipient of the DST-SERB Early Carrier Researcher Award and Visvesvaraya young faculty research fellowship award from the ministry of electronics and information technology. His current area of research includes silicon photonic IC enabled high-speed optical connectivity technology, integrated photonic based on-chip sensors, neuromorphic photonics and quantum photonic integrated circuit.

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