Shankar Kumar Selvaraja

About Shankar Kumar Selvaraja

Dr Shankar Kumar Selvaraja is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair at the Centre for Nano Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He is the Project Director of the thematic hub for NQM quantum computing hub at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. His current area of research includes high-speed integrated photonic devices, the development of photonic materials, and device platforms for on-chip photonic sensors. He obtained B.E. ECE from Bharathiar University, M.E. Optical Communication from College of Engineering, Anna University, Chennai, MSc. Microelectronics and Microsystems from University of Twente, The Netherlands and Ph.D. in Photonics Engineering from Ghent University, Belgium in 2011. His doctoral thesis was carried out at imec, Leuven, Belgium on wafer-scale fabrication technology for silicon photonic integrated circuits. Between 2011 and 2013, he works as a post-doctoral researcher at imec and between 2013 and 2014, he works at the same place as a silicon photonics-integration engineer. He has spent a decade in the area of silicon photonic to develop stat-of-the-art process and device technology for CMOS compatible photonic integrated circuit for high-speed optical interconnect. He has published over 150 research articles in international journals and conferences. He has 5 US and European patents. He is senior member of and member of SPIE and Optical Society of America.

Experience

1. Co-founder

   Agnit Semiconductors

   Jul 2019 — Present

Education

• College of Engineering, Guindy

  M. E, Optical communication

  2002 — 2004

• University of Twente

  M.Sc, Micoelectronics and Micosystems - Integrated optical Devices

  2004 — 2005

• Ghent University

  PhD, Silicon photonics circuits

  2006 — 2010

• Bharathiar University

  B. E, Electronics and Communication Engineering

  1998 — 2002

Skills

• Python
• Photonic Integrated Circuits
• Optics
• Photonics
• Silicon Photonics
• Optical Communications
• Design of Experiments
• Silicon
• Nanophotonics
• Process Integration
• Materials Science
• Fabrication
• Lithography