Prof. Ravindra Kumar Sinha (born 15 February 1960) is the Vice Chancellor of Gautam Buddha University, Greater Noida, Gautam Budh Nagar Under UP Government. He was the director of the CSIR-Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (CSIR-CSIO) Sector-30C, Chandigarh-160 030, India. He has been a Professor - Applied Physics, Dean-Academic [UG] & Chief Coordinator: TIFAC-Center of Relevance and Excellence in Fiber Optics and Optical Communication, Mission REACH Program, Technology Vision-2020, Govt. of India Delhi Technological University (formerly Delhi College of Engineering, University of Delhi) Bawana Road, Delhi-110042, India.
Early life
Prof. Sinha graduated with masters in physics (M.Sc Physics) from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur in 1984 and moved to Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi from where he secured a PhD in 1989-90. Topic of his PhD thesis is A Study of the Propagation Characteristics of Rectangular Core Optical Waveguides and Devices under the guidance of Prof Arun Kumar and Prof B.P. Pal in Optical wave guide group headed by Prof. Ajoy Ghatak during the period of 1984-1989.
Professional career
He worked at Osaka University for foreign studies, Osaka and Kobe University in Japan as Japanese government scholar during the period October 1989 - March 1991. Further during April 1991 - December 1992 he has worked as Research Associate in Electrical Communication Engineering Department of Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.
He joined as lecturer at Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani during January 1992 - September 1994.Thereafter he was assistant professor at Regional Engineering College, now known as National Institute of Technology (NIT) at Hamirpur (H.P.), India during October 17, 1994 - December 30, 1998. Then he joined as assistant professor at Delhi College of Engineering-DCE (Faculty of Technology, University of Delhi) during December 31, 1998 to October 17, 2002 .
He was Dean (Industrial Research & Development) at DCE/DTU during August 7, 2008 to August 31, 2010 and Head of Department of Applied Physics Department and Dean (academic-UG) during January 2015 to June 2015 at Delhi Technological University.
He was a Chief Coordinator: TIFAC-Center of Relevance & Excellence (CORE) in Fiber Optics & Optical Communication at Delhi College of Engineering” under the program “Mission Reach”, Technology Vision 2020, Technology Information Forecasting and Assessment Council, Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India since its inception in year 2005.
He has served as a Director, CSIR-Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (CSIO) Chandigarh since July 2, 2015 to February 2020. He has also served as Director, CSIR-Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute (CEERI), Pilani during November 6, 2015 to March 8, 2016 and Director CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH), Chandigarh since April 11, 2016 to January 22, 2017 as additional charge. His major research area is Fiber Optics and Photonics and he is currently working on Nano-photonic Devices for Telecom and Sensing Applications.His recent book on Zero Index Metamterials is published in April 2021 (https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Zero_Index_Metamaterials/h_QkEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover ). He has also published a review paper on Supercontinuum Generation using soft glass specialty optical fiber. He is recipient of Research Excellence Award of DTU in 2021 & 2022, Gold Skoch Award for development of defense technology in 2020, CSIR Technology Award 2018, Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship, Royal Academic Engineering Fellowship, Indo-Swiss Bilateral Research Fellowship, Japan Society for promotion of Science Fellowship, Japanese Govt. Scholarship, National Council of Taiwan Fellowship besides several visiting scientist assignment in several country. He is a fellow of International Society of Optics and Photonics (SPIE), Optical Society of India and IETE(India).