Rate My Professor Deepak Jain

Deepak Jain is an Associate Professor at the Optics and Photonics Centre of the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He obtained his PhD in Fiber Lasers from the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton, UK, between 2011 and 2015, and his MTech in Laser Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur between 2009 and 2011. Prior to his current role, he served as a Hans Christian Oersted co-funded Marie-Curie fellow at the Technical University of Denmark and as a research fellow at the University of Sydney in Australia. He also held the position of Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering department at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay from 2021 to 2022 before joining the Optics and Photonics Centre at IIT Delhi as Assistant Professor in 2022, advancing to Associate Professor in 2025.

His research focuses on optical fiber design, fabrication, and devices including lasers, optical communication systems, and sensors. Jain is a senior member of IEEE and Optica, serves as Chair of Optica’s Fiber Modelling and Fabrication technical group, and was an Optica Ambassador in 2020. He has authored numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals on topics such as large-mode-area fibers, supercontinuum sources, and fiber amplifiers.