Murukeshan Vadakke Matham

Biography

Dr. Murukeshan Vadakke Matham graduated from the University of Calicut, India with Physics as his major. He obtained his MSc and MPhil degrees in Physics with specialization in Quantum Electronics from the Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), India. He pursued his doctoral degree in Applied Optics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and at the University of Oldenburg, Germany under the DAAD Fellowship award and was awarded Ph.D. in 1997. Since 1997 he is with the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore where he is currently working as an Associate Professor of optical engineering. He has extensive teaching and research experience of over two decades, in the area of optical engineering and his major research interests are Nanoscale Optics, Biomedical Optics and Optical metrology. He has delivered over 50 keynote/plenary/invited talks at international workshops, conferences or forums. He has authored or co-authored of over 250 international research articles, which include 140 international journal papers, more than 110 international conference proceedings papers/presentations and 6 book chapters. Prof. Murukeshan also holds 6 patents and 8 innovation disclosures. He serves in the editorial boards of international journals such as the joint editor of Journal of Holography and Speckle (JHS) and Associate editor of Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics (JMIHI) and International Journal of Optomechatronics (IJO). He is also a regular reviewer for more than 10 leading high impact factor optics journals. He leads a research group which focuses on cutting edge research on Nanoscale optics, Biomedical optics and Applied optics for metrology. His research has fetched more than S$8 million through competitive and industry funding in the recent years. For his contributions, Prof. Murukeshan has won many international recognitions and awards such as DAAD Fellowship (Germany), TCT Fellowship, PMO- Technical Challenge Award (Singapore), Member, Award committee, SPIE (USA) to name a few. He was Visiting researcher (Japan), Visiting Associate Professor- Uni. California(US), Erudite Professor, University of Kerala ( India). He is also nominated for two prestigious international fellowships. He has supervised/ co-supervised ( includes on-going) the research theses of over 21 PhD students and 4 MEngg (students. Many of his student research papers have won awards at international conferences. He is currently the Deputy Director of Centre for Optical and Laser Engineering (COLE), NTU, and holds a concurrent adjunct appointment as Principal Research Scientist at the famous Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI). He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, UK.

Research Interest

Nanoscale Optics- Near field optics ( evanescent wave and Plasmonics), and Random media; Biomedical Optics ( Imaging and Sensing)- High resolution probe imaging, Multi modality ( optical and hybrid optical) imaging, Photoacostics, hyperspectral imaging and Applied Optics for Micro and nano-scale metrology, NDT&E Ocular imaging, Breast Cancer diagnosis