GUWAHATI: Biswajit Pathak of Assam has been awarded the prestigious Ramanujan Fellowship by the Science and Engineering Research Board, Government of India.
The Director of the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Kerala, a premier space research institute in Asia, nominated him for this fellowship.
Pathak will soon join the institute as a Ramanujan Fellow to work on his award-winning project proposal to develop a next-generation adaptive optics system.
The system is expected to be the first of its kind, capable of accurately compensating both lower and higher-order optical aberrations in real-time, resulting in a significant technological advancement in the field of adaptive optics, which will be applicable in microscopy, astronomy, and ophthalmology.
He is currently working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, UK, where he has completed several projects, including the design and implementation of a multimode fibre-based endo-microscopy system and the development of a programmable aperture-based imaging system for high-resolution in-vivo imaging of the human retina in an AOSLO.