Harish BhaskaranFREng is a British-Indian engineer and academic whose work focuses on nanoscale systems,including photonic computing,memory devices,and smart materials. He is a Professor of Applied Nanomaterials at the University of Oxford and the founder of the university's Advanced Nanoscale Engineering Group.
Bhaskaran completed a Bachelor of Engineering in civil engineering at the College of Engineering,Pune.[1] He earned a Master of Science in mechanical engineering at the University of Maryland,College Park,where he studied the packaging of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS).[2]
Career
Bhaskaran began his research career at IBM Research –Zurich,where he worked on phase-change materials and atomic force microscopy (AFM) technologies. His work included the development of platinum silicide (PtSi) AFM probes and silicon-containing diamond-like carbon tips with ultralow wear properties.[3][4]
He later conducted postdoctoral research at Yale University,[1] before joining the faculty at the University of Exeter as a lecturer.[5] In 2013,he moved to the University of Oxford,where he established the Advanced Nanoscale Engineering Group and was appointed Professor of Applied Nanomaterials in 2016.[1]
Bhaskaran’s research spans nanomaterials,photonic computing,and neuromorphic devices. He has contributed to the development of adaptive smart window coatings that modulate infrared radiation,offering potential energy savings in buildings.[8][9]
His group has also developed memory and display technologies using phase-change materials. He is a co-founder of Bodle Technologies,which is developing low-power reflective displays,[10] and Salience Labs,which focuses on photonic computing.[11]
Bhaskaran is one of the inventors of photonic non-volatile memory,[12] and contributed to the development of integrated photonic tensor cores capable of parallel convolutional operations for machine learning applications.[13]
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