Dr. Gaurav Kumar Bharti has awarded PhD degree in the field of Photonics under the Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering Department of the National Institute of Technology, Agartala, Tripura, India (an institute of national importance in India) in 2020. He was an institute post-doctoral fellow at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India (a premier institute of India) from Sep. 2020 to Dec. 2021. He is in the list of top 2% scientist for the year of 2023, as released by Stanford University (Based on the Scopus Data).

He is an active researcher in the field of photonics and more than fifty (50) of his research papers published/accepted in a reputed International Journals and Conferences with the citation of more than 500 and with the h-index of 15. He is the reviewer of the various peer-reviewed journals. His current research interests include Photonics, Optical Sensor, Quantum Computing, Cyber Physical Systems and Nonlinear Optics. He has guided two PhD as well as two M.E. scholars. He has authored two books and two chapters respectively. His two Indian Patent has been published. He has organized, delivered, and attended many Workshops, Seminars and National and International Conferences in India as well as in abroad. He has given the expert talk in the various reputed institutes of India and abroad, as well. He has both industrial and academic exposure. He has ongoing various sponsored research project and industrial consultancy of more than 50 lacs.

 He is the active member of IEEE, IEEE Photonics Society, IEEE Sensors Council, IEEE Nanotechnology Council, OPTICA (Formerly OSA), SPIE and other professional bodies. He is the founder and past Chairman of the IEEE NIT Agartala Student Branch (SB). He was also the Chapter Advisor of IEEE Photonics Society Chandigarh University Student Branch Chapter (SBC) from 2021-2023. He is also Founder and Past Branch Counselor of IEEE IIIT Bhopal Student Branch. As a IEEE member, he has performed various significant outreach duties/activities during his different IEEE positions which include Proctor, Mentor, Speaker at various platforms like IEEE, OPTICA, etc. Under his mentorship, the SBC and SB won several prestigious awards and grants from IEEE. He was Vice-Chair, Social Media IEEE Madhya Pradesh Section for the year 2024-25. Currently, he is an executive member in the IEEE Madhya Pradesh Committee 2025-26. 

Dr. Bharti is an recipient of “Transformative Researcher of the Year Award-2022 for EE Department”, Best IEEE Chapter Advisor, which was awarded by Chandigarh University. He has received fellowship from different agencies/institutes which includes MoE, IITG, IFFP-CU as well as ITS Grant as an Young Scientist from ANRF (Formerly SERB, GoI). He was a Visiting Professor at İzmir Yüksek Teknoloji Enstitüsü, Turkey (A QS ranked University), during the Fall Semester 2022-23. From June 2023 to Feb 2025, he is with IIIT Bhopal as an Assistant Professor in Electronics and Communication Engineering Department.