Saurabh Mani Tripathi


Saurabh Mani Tripathi

Dr. Saurabh Mani Tripathi is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur), India. He carried out his post-doctoral work under the mentorship of Prof. Wojtek J. Bock at the Photonics Research Center during 2011-2013; and was the team leader for LPG based sensor development platform. He has been instrumental in developing the first fiber-optic sensor for the real time quantitative detection of E. coli bacteria in liquid phase.

Prior to joining the Photonics Research Center, Dr. Tripathi obtained his Ph.D. degree on Fiber and Integrated Optics from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi), India, in 2010, where he was a Senior Research Fellow since 2007. He carried out part of his research work at Laboratory Hubert Curien, St-Etienne, France, during 2007-2009 where he was an Eiffel Excellence Fellow during 2008-2009.

His research interests include biological and chemical sensors, optical waveguide gratings and modal interference based guided wave devices, integrated optical devices, and surface Plasmon polariton based sensors. Dr. Tripathi is a member of the Optical Society of America, and the IEEE Photonics Society.


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E-mail: smt [at] iitk.ac.in