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Uday K. Chettiar

1220 Sansom St, N1
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Tel: 1 765 409 2366
uday@udaychettiar.com

EDUCATION

PhD Purdue University, ECE
West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
GPA: 4.0/4.0 Dec, 2008
MS Purdue University, ECE
West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
GPA: 4.0/4.0 May, 2008
BTech Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, EE
Mumbai, India
GPA:9.22/10.0 Aug, 2003

SKILLS

  • Programming Skills: Highly skilled in C, C++, Parallel computing (MPI, PBS), Fortran, Cluster computation, Python, Linux. Moderate experience with Ruby and Clojure.
  • Software Packages: Highly skilled in Matlab, Mathematica, R, MS Excel+VBA, Comsol, CST Microwave Studio, Lumerical FDTD. Moderate experience with Solidworks and 3DS Max.
  • Frameworks and DB: Moderate experience with Django, Hadoop, MapReduce, Ruby on Rails, Bootstrap, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite.
  • Fabrication: UV Lithography.

AWARDS AND HONORS

  • Finalist for the student presentation award at Frontiers in Optics conference, 2007
  • NASA Nano 50 Award for the top 50 nanotechnologies, 2006
  • Benjamin Franklin-Meissner Fellowship at Purdue University, 2003
  • Ranked 168 (top 0.11%) among 150,000 in the joint entrance examination for Indian Institute of Technology, 1999
  • Gold medalist in the Indian National Physics Olympiad, 1999

EXPERIENCE

02/2009-
12/2013

Post Doctoral Research Associate, Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania. Supervisor: Prof. Nader Engheta.

  • Worked on several projects in nanooptics and plasmonics with focus on numerical analysis and optimization.
08/2003-
02/2009

Graduate Student Researcher, School of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Purdue University. Advisor: Prof. Vladimir M. Shalaev.

  • Developed simulation tools based on parallelized Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method and Spatial Harmonic Analysis to simulate optical metamaterials.
  • Provided theoretical and modeling support for the world’s first experimental demonstration of negative index of refraction at optical wavelengths.
  • Provided theoretical and modeling support for the world’s first optical magnetic material across the whole visible spectrum.
  • Demonstrated negative index of refraction for light at the shortest wavelength (710 nm) till date (Aug 2009).
  • My work was reported by numerous media outlets including two television news shows. I was also interviewed on WTRC news.
05/2003-
05/2003

Summer Internship, Society for Applied Microwave Electronics and Research (SAMEER), Mumbai, India (Supervisor: Dr. Anuj Bhatnagar).

  • Developed a setup with accompanying software for the characterization of optical fibers through the mode field distribution.

Undergraduate Student Researcher, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India (Advisor: Prof. R. K. Shevgaonkar).

  • Analyzed and provided a theoretical model for pulse propagation through a nonlinear direction coupler using coupled mode analysis and nonlinear Schrodinger equation (NLSE).

INVENTIONS

  • Cloaking apparatus, has structure formed of material that has permittivity less than unity or approximately equal to unity, where structure is fixed between cloaked object and observer and includes two surfaces, W. Cai, V. M. Shalaev, Uday K. Chettiar, and A. V. Kildishev, Provisional US patent filed, US2008165442-A1, November 2007. (src)

  • Object visibility properties modifying apparatus, has metamaterial properties that are selected such that electromagnetic wave is guided around object, and metamaterial layers provided with electromagnetic properties, W. Cai, Uday K. Chettiar, A. V. Kildishev, and V. M. Shalaev, Provisional US patent files, US2010110559-A1, October 2009.(src)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

  • Referee for the following journals: Physical Review Letters, Journal of Optical Society of America B, Optics Letters and Applied Physics Letters.
  • Member of Optical Society of America (OSA).
  • Coordinator for the annual technology festival (Techfest) at IIT Bombay, Feb 2001.
  • Organizer for the annual cultural festival (Mood Indigo) at IIT Bombay, Dec 1999.

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS (reverse chronological order)

Journal Papers

31. Uday K. Chettiar, A. R. Davoyan, and N. Engheta, “Hotspots from nonreciprocal surface waves,” Optics Letters, vol. 39, pp. 1760, 2014. (src)
30. M. Saboktakin, X. C. Ye, Uday K. Chettiar, N. Engheta, C. B. Murray, and C. R. Kagan, “Plasmonic enhancement of nanophosphor unconversion luminescence in Au nanohole arrays,” ACS Nano, vol. 7, pp. 7186, 2013. (src)
29. C. T. Derose, R. D. Kekatpure, D. C. Trotter, A. Starbuck, J. R. Wendt, A. Yaacobi, M. R. Watts, Uday K. Chettiar, N. Engheta, and P. S. Davids, “Electronically controlled optical beam-steering by an active phased array of metallic nanoantennas,” Optics Express, vol. 21, pp. 5198, 2013. (src)
28. M. Saboktakin, X. C. Ye, S. J. Oh, S. H. Hong, A. T. Fafarman, Uday K. Chettiar, N. Engheta, C. B. Murray, and C. R. Kagan, “Metal-enhanced upconversion luminescence tunable through metal nanoparticle-nanophosphor separation,” ACS Nano, vol. 6, pp. 8758, 2012. (src)
27. Uday K. Chettiar and N. Engheta, “Internal homogenization: Effective permittivity of a coated sphere,” Optics Express, vol. 20, 2012. (src)
26. Uday K. Chettiar and N. Engheta, “Optical frequency mixing through nanoantenna enhanced differency frequency generation: Metatronic mixer,” Physical Review B, vol. 86, 2012. (src)
25. Uday K. Chettiar, R. F. Garcia, S. A. Maier, and N. Engheta, “Enhancement of radiation from dielectric waveguides using resonant plasmonic coreshells,” Optics Express, vol. 20, 2012. (src)
24. P. Y. Fan, Uday K. Chettiar, L. Y. Cao, F. Afshinmanesh, N. Engheta, and M. L. Brongersma, “An invisible metal-semiconductor photodetector,” Nature Photonics, vol. 6, 2012. (src)
23. O. Luukkonen, Uday K. Chettiar, and N. Engheta, “One-way waveguides connected to one-way loads,” IEEE
Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 11, pp. 1398, 2012. (src)
22. M. D. Thoreson, J. R. Fang, A. V. Kildishev, L. J. Prokopeva, P. Nyga, Uday K. Chettiar, V. M. Shalaev, and V. P. Drachev, “Fabrication and realistic modeling of three-dimensional metal-dielectric composites,” Journal of Nanophotonics, vol. 5, 2011.(src)
21. S. M. Xiao, V. P. Drachev, A. V. Kildishev, X. J. Ni, Uday K. Chettiar, H. K. Yuan, and V. M. Shalaev, “Loss-free and active optical negative-index metamaterials,” Nature, vol. 466, 2010. (src)
20. Uday K. Chettiar, P. Nyga, M. D. Thoreson, A. V. Kildishev, V. P. Drachev, and V. M. Shalaev, “FDTD modeling of realistic semicontinuous metal films,” Applied Physics B, vol. 100, 2010. (src)
19. Y. Sivan, S. M. Xiao, Uday K. Chettiar, A. V. Kildishev, and V. M. Shalaev, “Frequency-domain simulations of a negative-index material with embedded gain,” Optics Express, vol. 17, 2009. (src)
18. S. M. Xiao, Uday K. Chettiar, A. V. Kildishev, V. P. Drachev, and V. M. Shalaev, “Yellow-light negative-index metamaterials,” Optics Letters, vol. 34, 2009. (src)
17. S. M. Xiao, Uday K. Chettiar, A. V. Kildishev, V. Drachev, I. C. Khoo, and V. M. Shalaev, “Tunable magnetic response of metamaterials,” Applied Physics Letters, vol. 95, 2009. (src)
16. A. V. Kildishev, Uday K. Chettiar, Zubin Jacob, V. M. Shalaev, and E. E. Narimanov, “Materializing a binary hyperlens design,” Applied Physics Letters, vol. 94, 2009. (src)
15. A. V. Kildishev, W. Cai, Uday K. Chettiar, and V. M. Shalaev, “Transformation optics: approaching broadband electromagnetic cloaking,” New Journal of Physics, vol. 10, 2008. (src)
14.
Uday K. Chettiar, S. Xiao, A. V. Kildishev, W. Cai, H. K. Yuan, V. P. Drachev, and V. M. Shalaev, “Optical metamagnetism and negative index metamaterials,” Materials Research Society Bulletin, vol. 33, 2008 (Invited). (src)
13.
W. Cai, Uday K. Chettiar, A. V. Kildishev, and V. M. Shalaev, “Designs for optical cloaking with high-order transformations,” Optics Express, vol. 16, 2008. (src)
12.
V. P. Drachev, Uday K. Chettiar, A. V. Kildishev, H. K. Yuan, W. Cai, and V. M. Shalaev, “The Ag dielectric function in plasmonic metamaterials,” Optics Express, vol. 16, 2008. (src)
11.
A. V. Kildishev, Uday K. Chettiar, Z. Liu, V. M. Shalaev, D. H. Kwon, Z. Bayraktar, and D. H. Werner, “Stochastic optimization of low-loss optical negative-index metamaterial,” Journal of the Optical Society of America B, vol. 24, 2007. (src)
10.
W. Cai, Uday K. Chettiar, A. V. Kildishev, V. M. Shalaev, and G. W. Milton, “Nonmagnetic cloak with minimized scattering,” Applied Physics Letters, vol. 91, 2007. (src)
9.
Uday K. Chettiar, A. V. Kildishev, H. K. Yuan, W. Cai, S. Xiao, V. P. Drachev, and V. M. Shalaev, “Dual-band negative index metamaterial: double negative at 813nm and single negative at 772nm,” Optics Letters, vol. 32, 2007. (src)
8.
W. Cai, Uday K. Chettiar, A. V. Kildishev, and V. M. Shalaev, “Optical cloaking with metamaterials,” Nature Photonics, vol. 1, 2007. Cited over 707 times as of Dec 2013 (Web of Science) (src)
7.
W. Cai, Uday K. Chettiar, H. K. Yuan, V. C. de Silva, A. V. Kildishev, V. P. Drachev, and V. M. Shalaev, “Metamagnetics with rainbow colors,” Optics Express, vol. 15, 2007. (src)
6.
A. V. Kildishev and Uday K. Chettiar, “Cascading optical negative index metamaterials,”Applied Computations Electromagnetics Society Journal, vol. 22, 2007. (src)
5.
H. K. Yuan, Uday K. Chettiar, W. Cai, A. V. Kildishev, A. Boltasseva, V. P. Drachev, and V. M. Shalaev, “A negative permeability material at red light,” Optics Express, vol. 15, 2007. (src)
4.
Uday K. Chettiar, A. V. Kildishev, T. A. Klar, and V. M. Shalaev, “Negative index metamaterial combining magnetic resonators with metal films,” Optics Express, vol. 14, 2006. (src)
3.
A. V. Kildishev, W. Cai, Uday K. Chettiar, H. K. Yuan, A. K. Sarychev, V. P. Drachev, and V. M. Shalaev, “Negative refractive index in optics of metal-dielectric composites,”Journal of the Optical Society of America B, vol. 23, 2006. (src)
2.
V. P. Drachev, W. Cai, Uday Chettiar, H. K. Yuan, A. K. Sarychev, A. V. Kildishev, G. Klimeck, and V. M. Shalaev, “Experimental verification of an optical negative-index material,” Laser Physics Letters, vol. 3, 2006. (src)
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V. M. Shalaev, W. Cai, Uday K. Chettiar, H. K. Yuan, A. K. Sarychev, V. P. Drachev, and A. V. Kildishev, “Negative index of refraction in optical metamaterials,” Optics Letters, vol. 30, 2005. Cited over 882 times as of Dec 2013 (Web of Science) (src)

Selected Conference Presentations (as presenter)

13. Uday K. Chettiar and N. Engheta, “Optical Bistable Element Using Phase Transition Materials,” Metamaterials, Bordeaux, France, September 16-21, 2013.
12. Uday K. Chettiar and N. Engheta, “Optically Controlled Tunable Metatronic Elements,” Gordon Research Conference: Plasmonics, Waterville, ME, June 10-15, 2012.
11.  Uday K. Chettiar and N. Engheta, “Internal Homogenization: Effective Permittivity of Coated Spheres,” Optical Society of America (OSA) Frontiers in Optics, San Jose, CA, October 16-20, 2011.
10. Uday K. Chettiar and N. Engheta, “Pairs of optical nanoantennas for enhancing second-harmonic generation,” Optical
Society of America (OSA) Frontiers in Optics, Rochester, NY, October 24-28, 2010.
9. Uday K. Chettiar and N. Engheta, “Mixing Plasmonic Cloaking with Second-Order Optical Nonlinearity,” Optical Society of America (OSA) Frontiers in Optics, San Jose, CA, October 11-15, 2009.
8. Uday K. Chettiar, M. D. Thoreson, P. L. Koswatta, A. V. Kildishev, and V. M. Shalaev, “ Modeling and fabrication of random composite superlens prototypes,” SPIE Optics+Photonics, San Diego, CA, August 2-6, 2009. 
7.
A. V. Kildishev, Uday K. Chettiar, V. P. Drachev, and V. M. Shalaev, “Numerical simulations of nanostructured optical metamaterials: challenges and trends,” SPIE Optics+Photonics, San Diego, CA, August 10-14, 2008 (Invited).
6.
Uday K. Chettiar, A. V. Kildishev, H. K. Yuan, W. Cai, S. Xiao, V. P. Drachev, and V. M. Shalaev, “Optical double negative metamaterial at 813 nm,” Optical Society of America (OSA) Frontiers in Optics, San Jose, CA, September 16-20, 2007.
5.
Uday K. Chettiar, A. V. Kildishev, H. K. Yuan, W. Cai, S. Xiao, V. P. Drachev, and V. M. Shalaev, “Double negative index metamaterial: simultaneous negative permeability and permittivity at 813 nm,” OSA Topical Meeting on Photonic Metamaterials, Jackson Hole, WY, June 4-7, 2007.
4.
Uday K. Chettiar, A. V. Kildishev, H. K. Yuan, W. Cai, V. P. Drachev, and V. M. Shalaev, “Negative metamaterial for two distinct polarizations: double negative at 813 nm and single negative at 770 nm,” Conference on Lasers and Electro-optics (CLEO/QELS), Baltimore, MD, May 6-11, 2007.
3.
Uday K. Chettiar, A. V. Kildishev, and V. M. Shalaev, “Angular dependence in optical negative index materials,” IEEE AP-S International Symposium, Albuquerque, NM, July 9-14, 2006 (Invited).
2.
Uday K. Chettiar, A. V. Kildishev, T. A. Klar, H. K. Yuan, W. Cai, A. K. Sarychev, V. P. Drachev, and V. M. Shalaev, “From low-loss to lossless optical negative-index materials,” Conference on Lasers and Electro-optics (CLEO/QELS), Long Beach, CA, May 21-26, 2006.
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Uday K. Chettiar, A. V. Kildishev, H. K. Yuan, W. Cai, A. K. Sarychev, V. P. Drachev, and V. M. Shalaev, “Simulation of optical negative index materials,” Optical Society of America (OSA) Frontiers in Optics, Tucson, AZ, October 17-20, 2005.

REFERENCES

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