User:Than Singh Saini

Dr. Than Singh Saini was born on 1 May 1984 in a small village of India. Currently, he is working as a post doctoral fellow at Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya, Japan. Dr. Than Singh Saini joined Toyota Technological Institute, Japan as a Post Doctoral Fellow on 01.10.2017. He is the recipient of the prestigious National Postdoctoral Fellowship (SERB, Govt. of India) in 2016. Dr. Saini had worked at Advanced Materials & Sensors Laboratory (Photonics group), CSIR-Central Scientific Instruments Organization (CSIO), Chandigarh, India during 27.07.2016 to 29/09/2017 as a National Post Doctoral Fellow. He received his Ph.D. on the topic ‘Application Specific Specialty Optical Fibers and Waveguides,’ from the Department of Applied Physics, Delhi Technological University, Delhi in June 2016 under the supervision of Dr. Ajeet Kumar and Prof. Ravindra Kumar Sinha. Dr. Saini possesses teaching experience for more than three years during 17.08.2008 to 30.11.2011 as a Lecturer in the Department of Applied Physics, Satya College of Engineering & Technology, Palwal, HR. He has excellent research contribution in terms of research publications in journals of high repute (SCI & SCOPUS) and handling externally funded sponsored research project (SERB-NPDF). His research interest directed towards the development and characterization as well as modelling and optimization study of coherent mid-IR supercontinuum light sources and mode-locked fiber lasers. He has published more than 88 research papers out of which 31 papers are in international journals (SCI & SCOPUS) and more than 57 papers in proceedings of International/National conferences. Dr. Saini is the recipient of the Best Paper Presentation Awards (Three times) on his excellent presentations in the international conferences organized by (i) IISER-Kolkata (2013); (ii) IIT-Kharagpur (2014), and (iii) IRDE- Dehradun (2014). During his Ph.D., he has been awarded by the various International Travel Grants to present his research papers in international conferences in USA. He has also awarded by the “People Choice Award” for the demonstration of home-made optical models; during the Optics and Photonic conference 2013, San Diego, USA. He had served as a Facilitator in SPIE chapter leadership workshop on 8 August 2015, San Diego, USA. Dr. Saini has been the visitor at (i) Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory and Stanford Nano Shared Facilities (SNSF) at Stanford University, USA in 3–8 August 2014; (ii) College of Optical Sciences, The University of Arizona, USA in 19–23 October 2014; and (iii) The International Research Centre for Nanophotonics and Metamaterials, ITMO University (Saint-Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics), Saint Petersburg, Russia, 18–26 March 2017. Dr. Saini has attended various training programmes in India and abroad which includes: (i) "SPIE- Winter School on Photonics," 26 – 29 December 2013; Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) -Kolkata, India. (ii) one-week school on “Siegman Int. School on Lasers” at Stanford University, USA, during 3 – 8 August 2014. (iii) Short term course under Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme-II (TEQIP-II) on "Laser Processing for Manufacturing: Technology & Applications" Course code-2015/TEQIPSTC/22; 11 – 13 September 2015, IIT Delhi, India; (iv) One week Faculty Development Programme under Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme-II (TEQIP-II) on "Environmental Pollution: Monitoring & Control (EPMC-2016)", 24 – 28 October 2016, Department of Environment Engineering, Delhi Technological University, Delhi, India. Dr. Saini is the member of SPIE, IEEE and OSA. He is the member of Optics Advisory Board: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK. He has been the President of SPIE DCE Chapter (2015) & Vice President of OSA DCE Chapter (2014) at Delhi Technological University, Delhi, India. He is an active reviewer of more than 15 internationally reputed journals in the field of Optics & Photonics. He has been the reviewer of international conference IEEE CRALT-2016, Conf. on Recent Advances in Lightwave Technology, Bangalore, Karnataka, 21-23 September 2016. He has been the reviewer of international grant: OSA-Incubic Minton Chang Travel Grant, 2016.