P. Ramesh Babu received the M.Sc., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the University of Madras, Chennai, India. He is currently a Professor with the Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India. His research interests include fiber Bragg gratings, optical fiber communications, photonic crystal fibers, pulse compression, metamaterials, and Bose–Einstein condensation. (Based on document published on 30 September 2018).