Anuj Dhawan

ABOUT

Prof. Anuj Dhawan received his B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi and the Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from North Carolina State University (NCSU), Raleigh, NC, U.S.A. He worked as a National Research Council (NRC) Research Associate in the Electronics Division of the U. S. Army Research Office (ARO), Durham, NC, USA from 2007 to 2009 and as a Research Scientist in the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics at Duke University, NC, USA from 2009 to 2011. Since 2011 he has been with the department of Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, where he was an Assistant Professor from 2011 to 2016 and an Associate Professor from 2017 to May 2021. Since May 2021, he is a Professor in the department of Electrical Engineering. Since August 2021, he has also been the Head of SeNSE (Centre for Sensors, Instrumentation, and Cyber Physical System Engineering). His research interests lie in the areas of Plasmonics, Optoelectronic Devices, Chemical and Biological Sensors, SPR and SERS based Sensors, Nanofabrication, Flexible Electronic and Photonic Devices, Integrated nano-scale systems, Integrated Photonic Devices, and Computational Electromagnetics.

EDUCATION

• North Carolina State University (NCSU), Raleigh, NC, USA, Doctor of Philosophy (January 2002 - February 2007)
• North Carolina State University (NCSU), Raleigh, NC, USA, Master of Science (August 1999 - December 2001)
• Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bachelor of Technology, New Delhi, India (August 1995 - August 1999)

POSITIONS HELD

• Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India (May 2021 - Present)

  • Became Pillay Chair Professor in 2023

• Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India (December 2016 - May 2021)

• Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, May-July 2014

• Visiting Assistant Professor, ASSIST Nano Engineering Research Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, May-July 2013

• Visiting Research Scientist, Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA, May-July 2012

• Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India (October 2011 - December 2016)

• Research Scientist, Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC (September 2009 - Present)

• National Research Council (NRC) Research Associate, Electronics Division, U. S. Army Research Office (ARO), Durham, NC (May 2007 - September 2009)

  • Prestigious research associateship from NRC, which is a part of the National Academies of Science and Engineering of the United States of America.
  • Research Advisors: Dr. Michael Gerhold (Program Manager, U. S. Army Research Office) and Dr. Tuan Vo-Dinh (Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University).

• Research Assistant and Ph.D. student, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering NC State University, Raleigh, NC (August 2003 - May 2007)