Ramchandra Rao Dasari Distinguished Lecture Series
Late Ramachandra Rao Dasari, worked as a faculty member of Physics department of I.I.T. Kanpur for 16 years. He left IIT Kanpur in 1978. Subsequently, he worked at the National Research Council of Canada, University of British Columbia and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. He passed away in Schererville, IN, U.S.A. on April 12, 2020 at the age of 87. He established the first laser laboratory in India, fabricating the lasers indigenously. This pioneering work later led to the formation of CELT at IITK which has now grown into a vibrant Centre for Lasers and Photonics (CELP) offering interdisciplinary training and research. This lecture series is instituted by the generous support of Dr. Satish Dasari.
Past Speaker
Dr. Naresh Chand
Dr. Naresh Chand delivered a lecture titled "Advances and Opportunities in Optical Communication Networks and Systems" on 25 October 2022. A Life Fellow of IEEE, he has held several leadership roles in the IEEE Photonics Society. He retired in 2019 as Director of the US R&D Center of Huawei Technologies, where he worked on advanced technologies for ultra-broadband optical access networks. Earlier, he worked at BAE Systems, Agere Systems, AT&T/Lucent Bell Laboratories, and the Department of Electronics, Government of India.
Dr. Chand's research spans optical communication systems, fiber-to-the-home technologies, semiconductor lasers, and photonic devices. He has authored over 180 research papers and holds 15 patents. He received his M.Sc. (Tech) in Electronics with a Gold Medal from BITS Pilani and later completed his M.Eng. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Sheffield, UK, followed by postdoctoral research at the University of Illinois, Urbana. He is also the founder of Prakash Bharati, an initiative to promote photonics in India.