Hari received a B.Sc. degree in Physics from Calicut University in 2008 and an M.Sc. degree in Photonics and Biophotonics from Madras University in 2011. He finished his PhD at Heriot-Watt, in the Photonics Instrumentation Group under the guidance of Prof. Robert Thomson. His doctoral dissertation entitled “Time-resolved imaging of guided wave phenomena”, mainly focused on the use of novel imaging technologies for time-resolved photonic applications.
This work investigated the potential application of a novel single-photon sensitive camera for a variety of applications that involves time-stretch photonic imaging, time-resolved discrete optics in photonic lattices, and speciality fibre optics.
After his PhD, Hari worked as a PDRA on various projects, spanning from femtosecond laser machining to satellite quantum imaging. Hari is currently working on studying complex light behavior in multimode fibres and discrete waveguide systems using single-photon detectors.