Dr. Santosh Kumar

Dr. Santosh Kumar, Associate Professor, Liaocheng University, China
(SPIE Fellow Member, OPTICA Senior Member, IEEE Senior Member)

Santosh Kumar received the Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad, Dhanbad, India in 2014. He is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Physics Science and Information Technology, Liaocheng University, Liaocheng, China. His current research interests include optical fiber sensors, nano and biophotonics, photonic and plasmonic devices, and waveguides and interferometers.
Till now, twelve M.Tech. dissertations and six Ph.D. candidates have been supervised by him. He has published more than 270 high-quality research articles in national and international SCI journals and conferences. He has presented numerous articles at conferences held in China, India, Belgium, and the USA. He has recently published two scholarly books 2D Materials for Surface Plasmon Resonance-Based Sensors (CRC Press, 2021) and Optical Fiber-Based Plasmonic Biosensors: Trends, Techniques, and Applications (CRC Press, 2022). He has also authored a textbook Fiber Optic Communication: Optical Waveguides, Devices, and Applications (University Press, 2017). He has reviewed over 1500 SCI journals published by IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, OPTICA, SPIE, Wiley, ACS, and Nature up to this point.
Dr. Kumar is a Fellow of SPIE and Senior Member of IEEE and OPTICA. He is an OPTICA Traveling Lecturer. He has received the “2022 Best Performing Associate Editor” Award from IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL. He is also the Chair of the Optica Optical Biosensors Technical Group. He has given numerous invited speeches and serves as the session chair for IEEE conferences. He has served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE Access, IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience, Frontiers of Physics, and Biomedical Optics Express.