Dr. Nagesh Lalam

Dr. Lalam was a Visiting Senior Research Associate at the MEMS Department, University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Lalam received his Ph.D degree in Optical Engineering from the Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK in 2018. He obtained MSc degree in Optical Communications Engineering from the University of Greenwich, London, UK in 2012. Before joining University of Pittsburgh, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at National Energy Technology Laboratory, where he was involved in development of both discrete and distributed fiber sensor systems for energy systems monitoring applications. He has authored or co-authored more than 30 articles in journals and international conferences and holds one US patent (pending). His research interests include distributed fiber optic sensors, non-linear fiber optics, radio-over-fiber communications, fiber laser systems, and interferometric fiber sensing.