| Dr. Atul Kumar
obtained Master’s Degree from University of
Roorkee in 1991 and Ph.D from IIT, Delhi in
1997. His Doctoral Dissertation topic was
“Soliton properties and their switching dynamics
in optical fiber with saturating nonlinearity”.
Soon after finishing his Ph.D. he was offered
post doctoral research fellowship from Prof.
Y C Chung of Dept. of ECE, Korea Advanced
Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST),
South Korea where he worked on various aspects
of WDM based optical communication systems
including crosstalk effect on system performance.
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| Prior to joining AIT, Dr. Atul
Kumar worked as Assistant Professor in Dept.
of ECE at NIET, Greater Noida and as a Lecturer
in Dept. of Applied Physics at Amity University.
During the period April 2003 to March 2005 Dr.
Atul Kumar was at Research Center of Advanced
Science & Technology (RCAST) in University
of Tokyo (Komaba Campus), Japan working as post
doctoral research fellow. The fellowship (Monbugaku-sho)
was awarded by Government of Japan. Research
efforts during this period include design and
experimental realization of ring and linear
fiber laser and supercontinuum generation.
During the period Jan 2001 to March 2003,
Dr. Atul Kumar was with Renka Inc. Noida,
a Fiber Optics components based Telecom company.
He worked in the capacity of Group Leader
(R&D) responsible for the design, development
and production of fiber coupler, isolator,
patch cords etc. Later he acted as Head (Services)
and developed fiber network business from
Reliance, Bharti, RailTel etc.
Dr. Atul Kumar has published more than 10
research papers in International journals
and conferences. His current research includes
fiber laser & supercontinuum light, DWDM
optical network. He is a life member of ISTE. |
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