Originally Posted by
hamendra
Adding Prof. R.S. Sirohi,
Prof. R.S. Sirohi took over as the Director, IIT Delhi in December 2000. He did his Masters in Physics in 1964 from Agra University and Post M.Sc. in Applied Optics and Ph. D. in Physics from Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi in 1965 and 1970 respectively. Prof. Sirohi was Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department at Indian Institute of Technology Madras during 1971-1979. He became Professor in the Physics Department of the same Institute in 1979.
Prof. Sirohi worked as Humboldt Fellow at Physikalische -Technische Bundesanstalt Braunschweig, Germany. He was a Senior Research Associate at Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, USA. Prof. Sirohi was an Associate Professor at Rose Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, USA. He was ICTP (International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste Italy) Consultant to Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Malaya, Malaysia and was Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore.
Prof. Sirohi is Fellow of several important academies in India including Indian National Academy of Engineering; Optical Society of America; Optical Society of India; SPIE (The International Society for Optical Engineering). He is member of several other scientific societies, and founding member of India Laser Association. Prof. Sirohi is also the Chair for SPIE-INDIA Chapter, which he established with co-operation from SPIE in 1995 at IIT Madras. He was invited as JSPS Fellow and JITA Fellow to Japan. He was a member of the Education Committee of SPIE.
Prof. Sirohi was awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research Award by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Bonn, Germany in 1995 for his outstanding contributions to Optical Metrology. The International Commission of Optics (ICO) also chose him for the 1995 Galileo Award. The Optical Society of India awarded him the Amita De Award for his contributions to optics. He also received 13th Khwarizmi International Award IROST (2000) from the President of Iran. During this occasion UNESCO also gave him Albert Einstein Silver Medal (2000) for his contributions to science.
Prof. Sirohi is a member on several Boards and Committees in India. He was the President of the Optical Society of India during 1994-1996. He is on the International Advisory Board of the Journal of Modern Optics, UK and on the editorial Boards of the Journal of Optics (India) and Optik (Germany) and Associate Editor of the International Journal Optical Engineering. He was a Guest Editor to the Journals Optical Engineering. He was also a Guest Editor to the Journals "Optics and Lasers in Engineering" and "Optical Engineering".
Prof. Sirohi has published 225 papers in national and international journals, 56 papers in Proceedings of the conferences and has authored/co-authored/edited twelve books including four milestones for SPIE. He has participated in numerous international and national conferences and presented over 140 papers. He was Principal co-ordinator for over 25 projects sponsored by Government Funding Agencies and Industries. He has supervised 21 Ph.D. theses, 7 M.S. theses and numerous B.Tech., M.Sc. and M.Tech. theses.
Prof. Sirohi's research areas are Optical Metrology, Optical Instrumentation and Holography.
Presentations and publications:
Hololens in speckle and speckle shear interferometry, C. Joenathan, R.K.Mohanty and R.S.Sirohi, Applied Optics, 24, 1294-98 [1985]
Holographic grating in speckle shear interferometry, C. Joenathan and R.S.Sirohi, Applied Optics, 24, 2750-51 [1985]
Fringe sharpening in lateral shear interferometry, C. Joenathan, R.K.Mohanty and R.S.Sirohi, Optics and Laser Technol., 17, 310-314 [1985]
Real time optical image subtraction by a holographic shear lens, V.V.Rao, C. Joenathan and R.S.Sirohi, Optics commun.,55, 83-87 [1985]
A Real time optical image subtraction of transparencies using holographic shear lens, V.V.Rao, C. Joenathan and R.S.Sirohi, J.Optics (INDIA), 14, 131-137 [1985]
On the design and fabrication of holographic beam splitters, B.Gupta, C. Joenathan and R.S.Sirohi, Symposia on Quantum Electronics, BARC, INDIA, Jan 14-16 [1985]
Application of holographic optics in image subtraction, V.V.Rao, C. Joenathan and R.S.Sirohi, Symposia on Optics and Opto-Electronics, DEHRA DUN, INDIA, March 31- April 1 [1986]
Investigations on holographic optical elements, C. Joenathan and R.S.Sirohi, Report, Department of Science and Technology (HCS/DST/616/78), pp 1-57 [1986]
Shear interferometry using holographic lenses and a hologram, V.Parthiban, C. Joenathan and R.S.Sirohi, J.Optics (INDIA), 16, 1-9 [1987]
Inversion and folding shear interferometers using holographic optical elements, V.Parthiban, C.Joenathan, and R.S.Sirohi, Proc. SPIE, 813, 211 [1987]
Simple inverting interferometer using holo elements, V.Parthiban, C. Joenathan and R.S.Sirohi, Applied Optics, 27, 1913-1914 [1988]
One step rainbow holography using synthesized slit with low side lobes, C. Joenathan, R.Kamala and R.S.Sirohi, J.Optics (INDIA) 17, 12-17 (1988)
Holography and its applications, IIAT, Poona, India, Oct [1987]
Workshops:
A two day holographic workshopat Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (20 students per workshop)
i) Making Holograms, Date: May 2, and May 10, 1994
ii) Making Holograms, Date: September 27 and October 6, 1994
iii) Making Holograms, Date: September 27 and October 4, 1995
iv) Making holograms, Date: September 21 and September 28, 1996
Directed Research
1. Evaluation of Holograms (1991)
2. Fabrication of rainbow and reflection holograms (1992)
3. Generation of 3D images using random dot coding (1992)
4. Generation of Scholograms (1992)
5. Display holograms of a live specimen (1994)
6. Random dots for 3-D images (1993)
7. Schologram method to create 3-D images (1993)
8. Collimation tester using holographic gratings (1995)
9. Dichromated gelatin holograms (1996)
Masters Thesis
A study of Dichromated Gelatin and the construction of holographic optical elements, Jay Sharping,(1993) at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology