Prof. Siddharth Ramachandran

(BT/MME/1991)

Dr. Siddharth Ramachandran obtained his B. Tech in Metallurgical Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1991 and an MS in Materials Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, in 1993. After obtaining a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1998, he started his career at Bell Labs and then continued with its spin-off, OFS Labs. After a decade in industrial research labs, he returned to academia, where he is currently a Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Boston University, with appointments in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering as well as Physics, and the Division of Materials Science and Engineering. His work on the understanding and development of lightwave devices comprising spatial, vectorial and topological complexity have been applied in the fields of quantum computing, optical networks, brain imaging, as well as laser-based defence systems. For his contributions, he has been named a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at OFS (2003), a fellow of Optica (2010), IEEE (2019), SPIE (2019), APS (2022) and AAAS (2024), an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (2013-2015), a Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the UK Royal Society of Engineering (2016), a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow (2019) and an SPIE G.G. Stokes awardee (2026). He serves the optics, photonics and applied physics communities in several capacities, including, currently, as Editor-in-Chief of Optics Express.

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