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Dr. Ramachandra
R. Dasari
Associate Director,
G.R. Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rm. 6-014, 77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA
617-943-8418 (Tel); 617-253-4513 (fax)
rrdasari@mit.edu
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Biographical Sketch:
Ramachandra Rao Dasari was born in India in Krishna District of
Andhra Pradesh. He had all his education in India receiving B.Sc.
in 1954 from Andhra University, M.Sc. in 1956 from Benares Hindu
University and Ph.D. in 1960 from Aligarh Muslim University. He
joined the faculty of the Department of Physics at the Indian Institute
of Technology, Kanpur in 1962 and became a full professor in 1973.
During this period, he spent two years at MIT (1966-68) as a visiting
scientist and gained valuable experience in the fabrication of lasers
and research in laser physics. He left IIT Kanpur in 1978 and spent
a year as a visiting Senior Research Officer at the National Research
Council of Canada, Ottawa (1978-79), and another year as a visiting
scientist at the Department of Physics, University of British Columbia,
Vancouver (1979-80) before coming to MIT in 1980.
Dr. Dasari’s major accomplishments at IIT, Kanpur include
building one of the largest Laser laboratories for university research
in India,(many lasers were actually built at IIT Kanpur) training
large number of Ph.D students in laser research and interactions
with R&D laboratories such as Central Electronics Ltd, New Delhi,
and Bharat Heavy Electricals, Hyderabad for laser technology based
instrumentation. As Physics panel member of UGC, he has initiated
number of new initiatives for improvements in undergraduate education
and organized workshops for training of teachers.
AT MIT, Dr. Dasari was a visiting Professor of Physics for a year
in 1980. He has been a Principal Research Scientist at MIT’s
Spectroscopy Laboratory since 1981. He was appointed as an Assistant
Director of the Spectroscopy Laboratory in 1984 and later was promoted
to Associate Director in 1992. He oversees project coordination
and facility developments of the MIT Laser Biomedical Research Center,
supported by the National Institutes of Health, and also coordinate
research programs associated with the NSF Supported Laser Research
Facility.
He has given numerous lectures at universities in the U.S.A.,
Canada, and India and participated in several international conferences.
Under his supervision, twelve students have received Ph.D.degrees
and several students received M.S./M.Tech degrees.
Dr. Dasari’s research publications numbering more than 250
in refereed journals which include Physical Rev. Letters, Physical
Review, Nature, Optics Letters, Applied Optics, Journal of Quantum
Electronics, Applied Spectroscopy, , Journal of Chemical Physics,
Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy, Cancer Research, Gastro Enterology,
etc.
His early research cover areas of high resolution spectroscopy
of simple molecules, vibrational-rotational relaxations in infrared,
laser frequency measurements in the far-infrared, laser spectroscopy
of rare-earth ions in single crystals, Dicke narrowing in infrared
transitions, multiphoton ionizations, laser nuclear studies, molecular
collisions and dynamics, Single Atom Laser
Over the last 10 years, his major research activities moved to
laser biomedical studies leading to spectral diagnosis of disease
using several techniques, scattering, reflectance, fluorescence,
and Raman spectroscopy Specifically, detection of early stages of
cancer in several organs of the body including breast, colon, bladder,
esophagus, uterine cervix, and oral cavity was the major theme of
research. Also he was involved in the extensive studies that were
conducted in vitro and in some cases in vivo related to atherosclerosis
in coronary, femoral and carotid arteries. His other research relates
to low coherence interferometry for detection of nanometer motions
in cells and neurons.
Publications, 2000–2010
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