Dr. Narayan .K is working as Dean (R&D), Professor and Head, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at Sai Vidya Institute of Technology, Bangalore.
He did doctorate from the prestigious Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in the year 2012. His research interest includes Photonics and Integrated Optics applications for Lab-on-a-chip Sensor Systems.
He is the recipient of prestigious Start-up Research Grant for Young Scientist under Science and Engineering Research Board DST-SERB, Government of India for FY15-16 and
Seed Money to Young Scientist for Research (SMYSR) by Vision Group on Science and Technology, Department of IT, BT and S&T, Government of Karnataka for FY14-15.
He has been instrumental in guiding and motivating students to conduct research-oriented projects in the area of photonics and presenting the work in top international conferences
held abroad. Under his guidance fifteen UG students have presented their work as papers at top International Conference proceedings held abroad (in USA, Portugal,
Czech Republic and Macau China). Students have received international and national travel grant, under my guidance. Two UG students had received 4000 USD as travel grant from
IEEE Photonics Society. Apart from the technical activities I am extremely student friendly, like to always interact with students, a good motivational speaker and I have also
conducted personality development classes for the students for improving their personality, communication skills apart from career counselling.
Qualifications:
- Doctorate from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore (2012). Specialization: Photonics and MOEMS (Micro-Opto-Electro-Mechanical-Systems).
- M. Tech in Biomedical Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal, Karnataka, (2007) with 9.94 out of 10 CGPA.
- B.E (Electrical & Electronics) from Sir. M. Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology, Bangalore (2004), India (Affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum, Karnataka, India) with First Class with Distinction (FCD) 77.54% Aggregate.