"Malay K Pandit received his B.E and M. E degrees in Electronics Engineering from Electronics and Telecom Engg Dept, Jadavpur University, India in 1989 and 1991, respectively. He received his PhD from UK’s renowned Cambridge University in 1996. He did his post-doc from the Optoelectronics Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong till 2002 where he pioneered the use of polymers for optical waveguide applications. He then took a corporate career where he worked in a fibre optic company “FONS (I) Ltd” and executed projects of BSNL telecom, Defence DRDO, etc. Now he is a full Professor in the Electronics Engg Dept of the Haldia Institute of Technology where he focuses on embedded systems, including their usage in WDM optical networks. He was the Dean of School of Engineering and School of Electronics and Computer over the period 2012-2014, 2015-2016, respectively. He has 50 international publications and 4 patents in this area.
Dr. Pandit was awarded the National Scholarship of the Government of India in 1983 and the Nehru Scholarship of the Government of India and Overseas Research Award (ORS) of the Commonwealth Countries during his Ph.D. studies.

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