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Biography

Dr. Murukeshan V Matham graduated from University of Calicut, India with Physics as his major. He obtained his MSc and MPhil degrees in Physics with specialization in Quantum Electronics from the Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), India. He pursued his doctoral degree at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and at the University of Oldenburg, Germany under the DAAD Fellowship award and was awarded Ph.D in 1997. Since 1997 he has been attached to the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore where he is currently working as an Associate Professor. He has published over 200 international journal and conference proceedings papers, 3 Book chapters (2 on Biomedical Optics and one on nanoscale fabrication). He also holds 3 patents in the areas of Applied Optics, Laser speckle and Bio-Optics for Medical and Forensic applications. He is the Associate Editor of International Journal of Optomechatronics, Member Editorial Board of Journal of Holography and Speckle, and has guest edited international optics journal issues apart from being regular reviewer for many leading optics journals such as Optics Express,Optics Letters, Applied Optics, Journal of Biomedical Optics, Optics Communications, Optics & Lasers in Engineering, Optical Engineering, to name a few. He leads a research group on Biomedical Optics, nanoscale optics, Laser based Micro and nanofabrication, and Applied Optics for metrology. He was successful in securing research funding with a total over S$6.4M at the capacity of PI/Co-PI/ Collaborator through various funding agencies. Currently he also serves as the deputy director of The Centre for Optical & Laser Engineering (COLE)

Publications

Journals 115
Conference Papers 97
Book chapters 3
Books/Reports6
Patents 2 US + 1 Singapore

Academic Qualifications

  • Ph. D (Applied Optics): 1997
  • M. Phil (Physics): ( 1991)
  • M. Sc. (Physics with specialization in Quantum Electronics): (1988)

Research Areas

Teaching Interests

  • Optical Engineering
  • Biomedical Optics
  • Precision Engineering
  • Physics- Applied Optics
  • Optical Metrology and Instrumentation

Awards

  • 1993 Senior Research Fellowship, CSIR, INDIA
  • 1990 Junior Research Fellowship, CSIR, INDIA
  • 1993-95 DAAD Research Fellowship, GERMANY;
  • 2001 TEC Challenge Award, PMO, SINGAPORE.
  • 2006 Tan Chin Tuan Exchange Fellowship Award;
  • 2006 Silver award at the international conference ICBPE, 2006.
  • 2008 T65 Tenure Award, NTU
  • Best paper awards in 2008, 2009 at international conferences
  • 2011 Erudite Professor

Major Recent Research Funding

  • Investigations into High Resolution Probe Imaging for Angle Closure Glaucoma.
  • Novel concepts for improved absorption and concversion effciency in thin film solar cells.
  • Opto-digital vision system for imaging and profile mapping of intra cavities.
  • Solid Immersion nanolithography for sub-60nm multi-dimensional patterning and meta- materials.
  • Development of 2D photonic crystal for sensing and optical telecommunications.
  • Specialty micro-structured fibers for integrated multi modality Imaging.
  • Novel Biomedical imaging probes for sub cellular imaging and for early cancer diagnosis.

Supervision of postgraduate research students

  • No. of Ph.D students supervised/On-going : 16 .
  • No. of MEngg students- Supervised/On-Going: 4

Editorial Boards

  • Associate Editor, International Journal of Optomechatronics, Since 2006
  • Member, Editorial board, Journal of Holography and Speckle Since 2006
  • Guest Editor, Special Issue, Fiber Optics in Mechatronics- New trends and challenges, International Journal of Optomechantronics, April 2008
  • Special issue guest editor, International journal of Optics & Lasers in Engineering.(2003)

Reviewer for leading international journals

  • Optics Express, Optics Letters, Journal of nanotechnology, Optics Communications, Optical Engineering, Applied Optics, Optics and Lasers in Engineering, Journal of Biosensors and Bioelectronics, International Journal of Holography and Speckle, Sensors & Actuators, Non-Destructive Testing, Journal of Optics, Experimental Mechanics etc.

Session chairman / (special) session organizer( developed sessions) in International conferences

  • Member, Organizing committee, International conference on Laser Metrology, LM08, 2008.
  • Track Chair, International Conference on Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Engineering (ICBPE), 2006
  • Plenary chair & Special track ( Bio-optics and sensing) chair and organizer, ICBPE, 2006.
  • Publication committee chairman, ICBPE, 2006.
  • Member, organizing committee, ICBPE 2006
  • Member, Organizing committee, Mp4, 2006
  • International Conference on Precision Engineering, ICoPE, 2005
  • ICEM 2004 conference, Publicity chairman and session organizer.
  • Also, chaired sessions at different international conferences such as SPIE Conferences.

Invited talks

   Have given more than 20 invited talks and some of the significant ones are listed below:

  • Two public talks and Four research seminars at Trivandrum/ Kerala University on Biomedical Optics and Nanoscale Optics ( Dec 2011)
  • Frontier lecture at Calicut University on "Natures Nanotechnology and relevance to Nanoscale optics (Dec 2011)
  • Plenary Lecture on "Interfering Interferometrically for nanoscale fabrication" ICN 2012 (Jan 2012)
  • invited Talks on nano optical lithography: Trends and latest challenges at Cochin nano 2009
  • TWO invited talks focusing Biomedical Fiber Optics and On-line health monitoring with a Trimodal NDT platform at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 2007.
  • Invited technical talk on Optical NDT for engineering applications to the Non-Destructive Testing Society, Singapore in November 2006.
  • Invited talk at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, DAVIS on Role of Fiber optics in medical diagnostics in June, 2006.
  • Invited talk on Fiber optics in medical diagnostics at the International Workshop on Photonics and Optics , WOOP 2005, held at NITT, India ( which was sponsored by OSA & SPIE, USA).

Funded Research activities

  • Investigations into High Resolution Probe Imaging for Angle Closure Glaucoma - CO-PI
  • Novel concepts for improved absorption and concversion effciency in thin film solar cells- PI
  • Solid Immersion nanolithography for sub-60nm multi-dimensional patterning - PI
  • Design, Fabrication and Evaluation of broad band waveguide bragg gratings in Silicon - PI
  • Development of IL system for nanofabrication and application - PI
  • Opto-digital vision system for imaging and profile mapping of intra cavities - PI
  • Development of 2D photonic crystal for sensing and optical telecommunications -PI
  • Nanophotonics for metamaterials - PI
  • HyperSpectral High resolution Multi-Dimensional Imaging - PI
  • Tunable Magnetic Composite Transducers for Adaptive Optics applications - Co-PI