Dr. Shankar Kumar Selvaraja is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Nano Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. He is the deputy-chair of the national nano-fabrication facility at the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. His current area of research includes high-speed integrated photonic device, development of photonic materials, and device platform for on-chip photonic sensors. He obtained B.E. ECE from Bharathiar University, M.E. Optical Communication from College of Engineering, Anna University, Chennai, MSc. Microelectronics and Microsystems from University of Twente, The Netherlands and Ph.D. in Photonics Engineering from Ghent University, Belgium in 2011. His doctoral thesis was carried out at imec, Leuven, Belgium on wafer-scale fabrication technology for silicon photonic integrated circuits. Between 2011 and 2013, he works as a post-doctoral researcher at imec and between 2013 and 2014, he works at the same place as a silicon photonics-integration engineer. He has spent a decade in the area of silicon photonic to develop stat-of-the-art process and device technology for CMOS compatible photonic integrated circuit for high-speed optical interconnect. He has published over 150 research articles in international journals and conferences. He has 5 US and European patents. He is senior member of IEEE and member of SPIE and Optical Society of America.