Prof. Anil Prabhakar

Prof. Anil Prabhakar received his Ph.D. in 1997 from Carnegie Mellon University, with a dissertation on Nonlinear Spin-wave Optical Interactions. He has been with the faculty at the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT-Madras, since 2002 and is engaged across multiple laboratories that work on quantum technologies, fiber lasers, and opto-fluidics.

He is a member of the Scientific Management Board for LIGO-India, to detect gravity waves and the India-based Neutrino Observatory. He currently serves on the Editorial Boards for Scientific Reports (Nature) and the IEEE Transactions on Magnetics.