Students gained knowledge about industry at this workshop

Students at a recently concluded ‘

Photonics for Health

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Atmosphere

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Safety and Education

’ (PHASE 2020) spoke about their experiences of attending the four day long workshop at IIT-Gn. About 40 participants from India and abroad, including undergraduate, masters and PhD students, as well as researchers and industry professionals attended the five-day workshop and gained knowledge about the cutting edge research being done in the field of photonics.
Sharing his experience, Dr B M Patil, Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Dr Homi Bhabha State University, Mumbai said, “My background is in chemistry but I wanted to know the application part of photonics to gas sensing properties. The workshop has been an excellent experience. I gained knowledge about how industries and academia can work collaboratively. This workshop will be beneficial for my research as well as my students.”
Surbhi Jain, a PhD student in optics from the University of Delhi shared her thoughts on attending this workshop and said, “This workshop proved to be a perfect platform that opened a path for me what I can do in my field in the future. I came to know that photonics is not just a single subject but it involves a lot of other things like image processing, artificial intelligence etc. Through highly informative talks, useful practical sessions, and interaction with the speakers, we got to know what we need to do to make a product market-ready. I also enjoyed my stay at the beautiful IIT Gandhinagar campus.”