Professor and Head, School of Physics, Gangadhar Meher University, Sambalpur Dr Susanta Kumar Das has been awarded the prestigious Vidyasagar (Iswar Chandra Memorial) Award at 10th International Conference on Computing, Communication and Sensor Networks.
Prof Das has done MTech and PhD from India’s premier institutes like IIT Delhi and IIT Kharagpur respectively. He has more than 18 years of teaching and research experience that includes six years of post doctoral scientist experience at Max Born Institute, Berlin, Germany, 6.5 years of experience from KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, and 4.5 years of experience from NIST, Berhampur. He has published 87 SCOPUS indexed papers in the field of Ultrafast laser, Nonlinear Optics and Optoelectronics material/devices. Out of them 66 are Web of Science-indexed. Prof Das filed one patent on his innovation and published several book chapters with world’s leading publishers like Springer and Wiley.
He has also worked as reviewer for several leading journals of world and organized number of conferences, workshops and symposiums. He has delivered large number of talks in India, Germany and USA. Further, he has worked on development of various cost effective and robust instruments like nanosecond laser, picosecond laser, UV and visible photo catalysis reactor, Laser workstation, Covid-19 sanitizing tunnel, Covid-19 UV sanitizing cabinet, femtosecond pulse diagnostics systems etc. He has got various awards/financial support from several organizations/institutes like Optical Society of America (OSA); Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India; Dept. of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India; Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), Raja Rammana Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT) Indore, IIT Delhi; IIT Kharagpur and National Research Development Corporation (NRDC). His H-index is 19 and i-10 index is 25. He has more than 1300 citations from all over the world.
He has supervised four PhD scholars and several M Tech, M. Sc and BTech projects. Currently, he is supervising six PhD scholars and has a few completed/on-going Government funded projects to his credit.