P. Chakrabarti, Professor of Electronics Engineering and former Head of the Department of Electronics Engineering, IT-BHU, Varanasi has taken over the Charge as the Director of Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad on June 3, 2011. Professor Chakrabarti has made a significant contribution in experimental and theoretical research in the areas of Microelectronics and Photonics. He has been the Coordinator (2005-11) of the Centre for Research in Microelectronics, Department of Electronics Engineering, IT-BHU and developed a dedicated Photonics laboratory in the Centre.  He was the founder Coordinator of the MEMS Design Centre at IT-BHU. Following the tradition of Banaras Hindu University Prof. Chakrabarti established interdisciplinary research linkages involving the School of Material Science and Technology, IT-BHU for developing flexible electronic devices; Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Department of Microbiology, IMS-BHU for exploring the potential of graphene and other composite materials for developing sensors.  During the past one decade Prof. Chakrabarti developed a dedicated research team with his Ph.D. scholars and graduate students working in various areas of microelectronics and nanoelectronics. So far ten scholars have received their Ph.D. degrees under his guidance and an equal number of scholars are currently at various stages of completion of their Ph.D. degrees under his supervision. He has been the Principal Investigator in a number of R & D projects sponsored by DST, CSIR, DRDO and other sponsoring agencies.  He has also established strong collaborations with the Optoelectronics Research group, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK and the Nanomaterials research group, University of New South Wales, Australia. He has published 110 research papers in leading technical journals including IEEE Transactions and IEE (IET) Proceedings and 90 research papers in Conference Proceedings. He has been the Convener of three National Conferences and the International Conference on Emerging Trends in Electronic and Photonic Devices and Systems (ELECTRO-2009) organized at IT-BHU. He has delivered numerous invited talks at various National and International Conferences in the country and abroad. He has authored two text books and edited four Proceedings.  Prof. Chakrabarti earned his B.Tech. and M.Tech. degrees from the University of Calcutta, Kolkata in 1980 and 1982 respectively. He earned his Ph.D. degree in Electronics Engineering from the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University in 1988. He is a recipient of INSA Visiting Fellowship and Senior Visiting Fellowship of EPSRC, UK. Prof. Chakrabarti is a Senior Member of IEEE and Executive Member of IEEE India ED Chapter.

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