ARKA MAJUMDAR

EDUCATION

01/'08 - present	Stanford University, PhD In Electrical Engineering, Advisor: Dr. Jelena Vuckovic

09/'07 - present	Stanford University, MS in Electrical Engineering, GPA:4.1/4

08/'03 - 04/'07	Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering (Bachelor of Technology)	India
	GPA: 9.8/10

EXPERIENCE

	Stanford University, Research Assistant (2008-Present)
	Working with Prof. Jelena Vuckovic on Implementation of Quantum Computer in Solid State Cavity QED.

	Stanford University, Course Assistant (Spring, 2009)
	Course Name: Advanced Topics in Quantum Optics

	Calcutta University, Visiting Student (Summer 2007)
	Worked with Prof. P.N.Ghosh on Laser Cooling.

	Sun Microsystem, Microelectronics Center, San Diego, Summer Intern (Summer 2008)
	Worked with Dr. Jack Cunningham and Dr. Ashok Krishnamoorthy on Proximity Communication and Packaging.

	USC, Summer Intern (Summer 2006)
	Worked with Prof. Hossein Hashemi on Noise Analysis of Super-regenrative Receiver.

	IIT-Kharagpur and ISRO, Research Assistant (2005-2007)
	Worked with Prof. Anjan Sarkar on a Sponsored Project by ISRO on Integrating information from Multi-Source by Neuro-Fuzzy Technique.

	IIT-Kharagpur, Research Assistant (2005-2007)
	Worked with Prof. A. S. Dhar and N.B. Chakrabarty on several projects, viz, Sub-band ADC, Resonant Tunnel Diode, Information Retrieval from zero-crossings for Gaussian Signal.

AWARDS

President's (of India) Gold Medal for being the topper in IIT Kharagpur.(2007)

Stanford Graduate Fellowship (Texas Instruments Fellow)(2007)

Obtained J. B. National Science Talent Scholarship (2003-2007).

Certificate of Excellence for being 1st in 12th standard examination (among 300,000 students) in West Bengal,India (2003).

Certificate of Excellence for being 11th in 10th standard examination (among 600,000 students) in West Bengal,India (2001).

All India Rank 68 In IIT-JEE Examination (2003).

Secured 2nd Rank in West Bengal JEE (2003).

Qualified for Studying in Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta (2003).

Obtained National Talent Search Scholarship (2001-2003)

SKILLS, TECHNOLOGIES & PROJECTS

Programming: C, Verilog (for VHDL).

Language: English,Bengali (native),Hindi.

Softwares:: Matlab, Labview,Cadence, Sentaurus, FDTD.

Operating System:: Windows, Linux

Fabrication Skill: E-Beam Lithography, SEM, Plasma Etching, Photo-lithography, Wire-Bonding, Alpha-step, Rapid Thermal Annealing

Other Skills:: Optical Setup Aligning, MATLAB SIMULINK, MATLAB Image Processing, Semiconductor Parameter Analyzer

PUBLICATIONS

[Journal : submitted] Arka Majumdar, Ziliang Lin, (equal contributor), Andrei Faraon, Jelena Vuckovic, Fast, High Fidelity Quantum Dot Spin Initialization without a Strong Magnetic Field by Two-Photon Processes, Submitted to Physical Review Letter

[Journal : submitted] Dirk Englund, Arka Majumdar, Andrei Faraon, Mitsuru Toishi, Nick Stoltz, Pierre Petroff, Jelena Vuckovic, Coherent excitation of a strongly coupled quantum dot - cavity system, Submitted to Nature

[Journal : submitted] Dirk Englund, Andrei Faraon, Arka Majumdar, Hyochul Kim, Pierre Petroff, Jelena Vuckovic, An optical modulator based on a single strongly coupled quantum dot - cavity system in a p-i-n junction, Submitted to Optics Express

[Journal : submitted] Arka Majumdar, J. Cunningham, A. Krishnamoorthy, Alignment and Performance Considerations for Capacitive, Inductive and Optical Proximity Communication, Submitted to IEEE Transaction of Advanced Packaging

[Journal : submitted] Andrei Faraon, Arka Majumdar, Hyochul Kim, Pierre Petroff, Jelena Vuckovic, Fast Electrical Control of a Quantum Dot Strongly Coupled to a Nano-resonator, Submitted to Physical Review Letter

[Journal : Published] Arka Majumdar, Andrei Faraon, Dirk Englund, Ilya Fushman, Jelena Vuckovic, Quantum Dots in Photonic Crystals : From Single photon sources to single photon nonlinear optics, Proceedings of SPIE, 2009

[Journal : Published] A.Sarkar, Arka Majumdar, S. Chatterjee, D. Chatterjee, S. S. Ray, B. Kartikeyan, "Potential of Alternate Crops by Fusion of Multi-Source Data using Neuro-Fuzzy Techniques", International Journal of Remote Sensing, v.29 n.19, p.5479-5493, September 2008.

[Conference : Accepted] Arka Majumdar, Dirk Englund, Andrei Faraon, Jelena Vuckovic, Single Quantum Dot Spectroscopy via Non-resonant Dot-Cavity Coupling, FIO/Laser Science Conference (2009)

[Conference : Accepted] Andrei Faraon, Arka Majumdar, Hyochul Kim, Pierre Petroff, Jelena Vučković, Electrically Driven Optical Modulator with a Strongly Coupled Quantum Dot, FIO/Laser Science Conference (2009)

[Conference : Accepted] Dirk Englund, Andrei Faraon, Arka Majumdar, Ilya Fushman, Jelena Vuckovic, Ultrafast all-optical switching with a single quantum dot, CLEO (Conference of Lasers and Elctro Optics), 2009

[Conference : Accepted] Andrei Faraon , Arka Majumdar, Jelena Vuckovic, Electrically controlled single quantum dot switching in photonic crystal resonators, CLEO, 2009

[Conference : Accepted] Arka Majumdar, Andrei Faraon, Jelena Vuckovic, Engineering Anti-bunching via Photon Blockade in Photonic Crystal Cavity-Quantum Dot Systems, CLEO, 2009

[Conference : Accepted] Sandipan Kundu, Arka Majumdar, Kaushik Dasgupta, Rajkumar Singha, "Characterization of (Si-SiGe-Si) Interband Tunnel Diode and Its Applications", International Conference on MEMS and Semiconductor Nanotechnology, IIT-Kharagpur, 20 - 22 December, 2005.