Submission to NOPT 2010 is Open.
2010 International  Conference on Nanotechnology, Optoelectronics and Photonics Technologies (NOPT 2010)
Singapore, Feb. 26-28, 2010

Keynote Speakers I

Prof. R. K. Sinha, Head (Applied Physics), Dean (Industrial Research &Development) &
Chief Coordinator-TIFAC - Center of Relevance and Excellence (CORE) in Fiber Optics and Optical Communication (Mission REACH project, Technology Vision-2020, Govt. of India)
Delhi Technological University (Formerly Delhi College of Engineering)
 Bawana Road, Delhi-110042, India

R. K. Sinha received M. Sc. degree in physics from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India, in 1984, and Ph.D. degree in Fiber optics and Optical communication from the IIT, Delhi, India, in 1990. During 1989–1991, he was a Postdoctoral Research Student at Osaka University for Foreign Studies, Osaka, Japan, and Electronics Engineering Department, Kobe University, Japan. He is currently a Professor, Head of Applied Physics Department, Chief Coordinator of the Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC)–Centre of Relevance and Excellence (CORE) in Fiber Optics and Optical Communication and Dean (Industrial Research & Development), Delhi Technological university (Formerly known as Delhi college of Engineering, University of Delhi), Delhi. He is the author or co-author of more than 125 research publications in the leading national and international journals and conference proceedings.  He has also held visiting scientist appointment at ICTP-Italy in 1991 and University of Campinass, Brazil in the year 1995. Prof. R. K. Sinha was awarded the Emerging Optoelectronics Technology Award [ (CEOT-IETE, India)]-2006 for outstanding research work in the area of Nanophotonics, S. K. Mitra Memorial Award for in Best Research Paper in IETE Technical Review 2002 on Nanostructure Electron Waveguides and Devices and Swarna Jayanti Puraskar (Gold Medal) from the National Academy of Science for best co-authored research paper in the area of Nano scale Optical Devices for the year 2001. Professor Sinha had been academic visitor of several universities of USA, UK and Japan.  Later in the year 2006, Professor Sinha was awarded “Project Formulation Grant” from British Council of India to initiate collaborative research between leading university of UK and his organization, DCE (now DTU) Delhi. He has also been awarded the Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) Invited Fellowship- 2007 to carryout research work on Multicore Photonic Crystal Fibers at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan and the Royal Academy of Engineering (U.K.-India short-term exchange) Fellowship-2008 to carry out  research on Photonic Crystal Waveguides and Devices at Glasgow University, UK , Indo Swiss Bilateral Research fellowship-2009 to initiate collaborative research in the area of Nano photonic Devices with EPFL Switzerland and DTU, Delhi, India and National Science Council Taiwan Fellowship-2009 to pursue collaborative research and deliver invited talk on Photonic Crystal based Nano photonic Devices. He is a Fellow of the IETE (India), a member of the International Society of Optical Engineering (SPIE, USA), and a member of the Optical Society of America (OSA, USA). Professor Sinha is also Faculty Adviser of SPIE-DCE Chapter and OSA-DCE Chapter at Delhi Technological University, Delhi. In addition to these, Professor Sinha has been actively involved in supervising several innovative projects on the design and development of unmanned and autonomous vehicles and in the establishment of Knowledge and Innovation Park with focus on student led innovation and product development.

Keynote Speakers II

Dr. Sukhdev Roy, Dayalbagh Educational Institute, India

Sukhdev Roy obtained the B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Physics from Delhi University, in 1986, M.Sc. degree in Physics with specialization in Electronic Science, from Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra, in 1988, and Ph.D. degree in Physics, from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, in 1993.

He was a Senior Research Assistant at the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, from 1988 to 1989. Since 1993, he has been with the Department of Physics and Computer Science, Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra, where he is at present an Associate Professor. He has been a Visiting Scientist for short summer terms at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India, 2002-2004; at Osaka University, 2006, at Harvard University, 2007, 2009 and at Queen Mary, University of London, 2009. His areas of interest are nano-photonics, bio-molecular computing and all-optical information processing.

Dr. Roy is a Member of IEEE, the Optical Society of America, a Fellow of the Optical Society of India and a Life Member of the National Academy of Sciences, India, Indian Science Congress Association, Indian Laser Association and the Biosensor Society, India. He was awarded the 1^st B.B. Sen Memorial Award by the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, India in 2007, the Hari Ohm Ashram Prerit Shri H.C. Shah Research Endowment Prize by Sardar Patel University, India in 2008, Best Paper Presentation Award by the Indian Science Congress Association in 2000 and 2001 and by the Systems Society of India in 1995 and 2008. He was awarded the SERC Visiting Research Fellowship to the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 1998; the Career Award for Young Teachers by the All-India Council for Technical Education, India, in 2001 and the Japan Society for Promotion of Science Invitation Fellowship to Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, in 2004. He is on the Editorial Board of Recent Patents in Signal Processing and is also the Guest Editor of the forthcoming 2010 IET Circuits, Devices and Systems special issue on Optical Computing Circuits, Devices and Systems.