Deepa Venkitesh

Deepa Venkitesh obtained her Bachelors and Master’s degree in Physics from the University of Kerala and PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. She has worked in SAMEER Mumbai, VES College, Mumbai before joining the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras. She was bestowed with the Young Faculty Recognition Award of IIT Madras in 2012, and the Abdul Kalam Technology Innovation Fellowship of INAE in 2021. She is Senior Member of OSA, and Editorial Board member of the IET Optoelectronics. She was the Associate Vice President of “Women in Photonics” of the IEEE Photonics Society (2020-2023). She is also the National Coordinating Faculty for the Prime Ministers Research Fellowship program of the Govt of India. She is the project lead for the Advanced Optical Communication Testbed project- which is a consortium project funded by the Department of Telecommunications, Govt of India.

For JLT, she is handling submissions on the following topics:

• Optical Communication
• High spectral efficiency optical communication systems
• Optical signal processing for digital and analog systems
• Microwave Photonics
• Continuous variable quantum key distribution