Prof. Kasturi Saha

Project Director, Qmet Tech Foundation

Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay

Prof. Kasturi Saha is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Bombay. Kasturi Saha joined IIT Bombay as an assistant professor in December 2016. She did her PhD in the Quantum and Nonlinear Photonics Group of Prof. Alexander Gaeta in the School of Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell University. Her thesis involved the characterization, time-domain analysis and stabilization of frequency combs generated in silicon nitride microring resonators and ultra-low power nonlinear optics in photonic bandgap fibers. She worked closely with Prof. Michal Lipson’s group in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She did her post-doctoral fellowship in the Quantum Engineering Group of Prof. Paola Cappellaro in the Research Laboratory of Electronics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) where she worked primarily on building a quantum spin-based gyroscope using Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) centers in diamond. She obtained her B.Sc.(Phys. Hons.) from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi from 2003-06 and M.Sc. in Physics from IIT-Delhi in 2008.


Current Research Focus at Qmet

Prof. Saha’s technical group focuses on advancing NV-centre based quantum sensors with room-temperature operation, portable configurations, and biomedical imaging applications.

Key objectives include:

Development of portable and scanning NV-based magnetometers

Wide-field and cryogenic NV-diamond microscopes

Microfluidic imaging systems and adaptive optics

Standardization of NV materials and national infrastructure development

Academic and Industry Impact

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