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Apurba Chakraborty

Assistant Professor, Gr-I

Heterostructure devices, III V Semiconductor Devices, Wide bandgap semiconductor
Office D114, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani Goa

About the Faculty: 

Apurba Chakraborty

Assistant Professor -Grade I

BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus

Academic:

  • Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) in Electronics from Birla Vishvakarma Mahavidyalaya Engineering College, Anand, Gujrat (August, 2004- June, 2008)
  • Master of Technology (M.Tech) in Electronics and Communication Engineering (specialization in Semiconductor Device) from Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing (IIITDM) Jabalpur (August, 2010- July, 2012
  • Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur (December, 2012-August, 2016).

Awards: 

  • Selected for stratup funding worth 20 Lakh in the Indian Innovation Challenge design contest (IICDC 2017) sponsored by Texas Instrument (TI) and Department of Science and Technology (DST), Gov, of India. (This award was given to only 10 student teams out of 5049 from all over India, I was the mentor of that team).
  • Awarded Junior Research Fellowship and Senior Research Fellowship, by DeitY for PhD .
  • GATE Exam qualified: GATE 2011 (AIR=1356 out of 137853.)
  • Secured 8th and 11th position in PCB (Medical) and PCM (Engineering) group respectively in Tripura Board of Joint Entrance Examination-2004.
  • Recipient of North-East merit scholarship during B.E by North-Eastern council .                 

Research Area:

  • Design and development of Gallium oxide based devices for photodetector, power electronics applications. 
  • Gallium nitride (GaN) based heterostructure devices.
  • Reliability investigation of GaN based devices.               

Administrative responsibilities:         

  • Faculty In-Charge of Electronics Design Lab
  • Co-Instructor of Professional development course on "Introduction to device and system packaging",  CREST, BITS Pilani.
  • Departmental Faculty leader in Convocation 2022.
  • BITSAT EXAM  duties 2021, 2024.
  • Faculty coordinator for Practice school, 2021, 2023.           
  • FD and HD Admission Duties.