Author name: Raktim Haldar
Raktim Haldar was born in Kolkata, India. He is currently an assistant professor at the Electronics and Communication Engineering Department, School of Electrical and Computational Sciences (SECs), Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar (IITBBS). Previously, he was a senior postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Photonics, Leibniz Universität Hannover since 2020, and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the same place since 2021. His present research goal is to bridge the gap between integrated photonics and fundamental physics at the nanoscale. Raktim’s future goal is to develop indigenous experimental quantum photonic technology facilities. His research interests include integrated photonics, fiber optics and optoelectronics, nonlinear optics, integrated quantum photonic technologies, quantum information, quantum neural network, etc. Raktim was an invited speaker in several conferences and Institutes worldwide including Cavendish Laboratory Uni. Of Cambridge (UK), IITs, NITs, Lamar University (USA), tcg Crest, SPIE Photonics West, SPIE Europe, 11th Humboldt Award winning ceremony on quantum technologies to name a few. He was also invited to attend Digital Communication Laboratory organized by the Humboldt Foundation and International Journalist Forum for his contribution to science communication. Previously, he was a visiting scientist at Paris Centre for Quantum Computing, Sorbonne University, France, and a Raman Charpak Fellow at C2N/CNRS, University Paris-Saclay, France in 2018 and 2022, respectively. He obtained his Ph.D. from the E&ECE Department, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2019. He received M. Tech. degree from the same department with a specialization in RF & Microwave Engineering in 2013. He has authored and co-authored about 25 peer-reviewed journals and 40 international conferences. He is also a regular reviewer of several prestigious journals, e.g., Nature Photonics, Nature Communications, Scientific Reports, APS journals like Phys. Rev. Lett., Phys. Rev. Research, Phys. Rev. X., etc., and many Optica, IEEE, SPIE, and MDPI journals. Being a student member of the Optical Society of America (OSA) since 2015 he was actively involved in various activities of the OSA-student chapter, IIT Kharagpur, and was in the organizing committee of Photonics 2014 and IONS 2014. Currently Raktim is a technical group leader/chair (2024-2027) of Optical Metrology Group of Optica and previously he served as the President of the IITKGP OSA Student Chapter for 2018-2019. He is also a lifetime member of SPIE and IEEE. Raktim is a painter, photographer, and science enthusiast. He writes popular science articles, stories, and columns in Bengali and English newspapers and magazines on a regular basis. Further information https://sites.google.com/view/raktim-haldar/home
