Somnath Ghosh

Dr. Somnath Ghosh is an Assistant Professor at IIT Jodhpur. He completed his M.Sc. Physics at IIT Kharagpur. He completed his Ph.D in Physics at IIT Delhi.He is Senior Project Scientist, 2013 Sponsored by U. S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, USA. He is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2014 . He is a former Assistant Professor, Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics, University of Calcutta 2015.

Research interest:

• Disordered Optical Systems, Exceptional Points, Mid-Infrared Photonics, Specialty Optical Fibers/structures

Education

• M.Sc. (Physics), IIT Kharagpur
• Ph.D. (Physics), IIT Delhi

Courses Taught

• Optics & Laser Laboratory (M.Sc Physics)
• Computational Physics Laboratory (M.Sc Physics)
• Quantum Mechanics (M.Sc Physics)
• Engineering Optics (M.Sc Physics) Spring 2019
• Computational Physics (B. Tech., M.Tech., M.Sc., Ph.D.), Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019
• EM theory and Optics (B. Tech.), Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Summer 2017, Summer 2018; Summer 2019
• Advanced Engineering Mathematics (M. Tech.), Uni. of Calcutta, Summer 2016
• Guided wave photonics (M. Tech.), Uni. of Calcutta, Summer 2016
• Analytical and numerical methods (B. Tech.), Uni. of Calcutta, Summer 2015
• Computational methods (M. Tech.), Uni. of Calcutta, Summer 2013, 2015
• Physics Laboratory (U.G.), Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Summer 2017
• Optics and Lasers Laboratory (M.Sc. -Physics)

Awards & Medals

• National Scholarship by State Government, West Bengal, India, 1996
• National Scholarship Scheme by MHRD, Govt. of India, 1998
• INSPIRE faculty award by Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, 2012
• Best research paper award by Optical Society of America, Int. conf. Photonics 2008
• Best research paper award by Department of Physics, IIT Delhi, Open House - 2009
• Best research paper award by Optical Society of America, Int. conf. Photonics 2010
• Best research paper award by Organizing comm., Frontiers in optics and photonics 2011
• Best research paper award by Organizing comm., Recent advances in Photonics 2011
• Best paper award by Organizing comm., International Conference of Fiber Optics and Photonics (PHOTONICS-2018) on December 12-15, 2018 at IIT-Delhi, India
• Best Paper award by SPIE, International Conference on Optics & Electro-Optics (ICOL), 19-22 October 2019, IRDE, Dehradun, India
• Best Paper award by Organizing comm., International Symposium on Photonics and Plasmonics (ISSP-2019) on September 23-24, 2019 at Central University of Rajasthan, India
• INSPIRE-Faculty Award 2012, DST-INSA India
• Dr Somnath Ghosh has been awarded "Research Excellence Award 2020" of IIT Jodhpur for the category of researchers below the age of 40 years.