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Dr. Pankaj Arora

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus

2D materials, MEMS, Microfluidics, Optical microscopy, Optical sensors, Plasmonics, RF Microelectronics, Silicon Photonics, Solar cell, graphene, nanoscale devices
Dr. Pankaj Arora, SMIEEE
Assistant Professor, Room No. 2210-C (Faculty Division-II) ,
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering,
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani- 333031, Rajasthan. India.

Awards

  • Secured 2nd position in the Haryana State Board (B.S.E.H.) in the Matriculation examination.
  • Secured 2nd position in the Haryana State Board (B.S.E.H.) in Senior Secondary examination.
  • Secured 2nd position in the B. Tech in the deemed University NIT Silchar (Assam).
  • Stood among the top 2.19 % among 0.1 million candidates in GATE-2010.
  • Topper of the batch Jan. 2011 for highest CGPA in Ph.D.
  • Obtained 3rd prize in the State level Inter School Science Quiz Contest organized by the Haryana  State Council for Science and Technology.
  • Awarded 2nd position in the circuit designing contest- Circuitrix in Technoesis '08, NIT Silchar (Assam).
  • Awarded 1st position in the microprocessor coding contest- Mnemonics in Technoesis '08, NIT Silchar (Assam).
  • Won Best Student Award for the year 2004 in S. M. Hindu Senior Secondary School, Sonepat (Haryana).
  • Won Best Paper award for "Dark field imaging in a bright field microscope using tailored polarization of Spoof Surface Plasmons," P. Arora, A. Krishnan, Photonics 2014, 2014. 
  • Won Best Poster Award for "Refractive index and thickness sensing of sub-wavelength thin films using Surface Plasmon imaging," P. Arora and A. Krishnan, National Conference on Nano Science and Nanotechnology (NS&NT-2014), CRNN, 2014.
  • Won an MHRD scholarship during my stay at IIT Madras to pursue M.S. and Ph.D. studies.
  • Won Institute Research Scholar Award in 2016 on Institute Day in IIT Madras, Chennai.
  • The only research scholar selected from IIT Madras, Chennai, to attend the In-Residence Programme for a week at Rashtrapati Bhavan in 2016.
  • Won the International Travel Support (ITS) award from the Department of Science and Technology (DST) in 2016.
  • Won Lady Devis fellowship for Postdoc. Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem from the Ministry of Science and Technology Israel from 2016-2018.
  • Won Best Poster Award for "Demonstration of on-chip thermocouple detector in infrared regime through field enhancement by Plasmonic focusing," O. Keneth, P. Arora, N. Mazurski and U. Levy, Nano Conference, Jerusalem, (Israel), 2017.
  • Won Best Poster Award for "Dispersion engineering with plasmonic nanostructures for enhanced surface plasmon resonance sensing," P. Arora, E.Talker, N. Mazurski and U. Levy, Nano Conference, Jerusalem, (Israel), 2018.
  • Won Best Poster Award for "Integrated light-vapor interaction in mid-infrared, " Y. Sebbag,  P. Arora, N. Mazurski, Y. Barash and U. Levy, Faculty day at HUJI, Jerusalem, (Israel), 2018.
  • Won Best Poster Award for "Recent Trends in Transducers and Actuators "at RTTA-2019 Workshop at CEERI Pilani (Rajasthan) 2019.
  • Won Young Scientist International Travel Support (ITS) from the Department of Science and Technology (DST) in 2020.
  • Elevated to the grade of IEEE Senior member in November 2022.
  • S. Mehta, P. Raghunath,  S. Shukla, and P. Arora won the Best Paper Award at the International Conference “EPIC 2022", Dec 15-17 at SRM University (India).
  • S. Patria, A. Singh, S. Shukla, and P. Arora won the Best Paper Award at the International Conference “EPIC 2022", Dec 15-17 at SRM University (India).
  • S. Shukla, Y. Tripathy, K. Sanghi, and P. Arora won the Best Paper Award at the International Conference Devices for Integrated Circuit (DevIC) 2023  in Kolkata.
  • Won International Travel Support (ITS) from the Department of Science and Technology (DST) in 2024.
  • Won Best Session Chair Award for chairing the session for the International Conference on Composite Materials for Environment Protection & Remediation (ICCMEPR-2024), under the flagship of the Chemical Research Society of India in Bihar, for the session "Nanomaterials & Nanotechnology."