Prof. Bijoy Krishna Das obtained his master's degree in solid-state physics from Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, India (in 1996) and Ph.D. degree (Dr.rer.nat) in integrated optics from the University of Paderborn, Germany (in April 2003). Prior to his Ph.D. research in Germany, Dr. Das started his research career in the area of integrated optics at the Microelectronics Centre, IIT Kharagpur for three years (January 1996 – December 1998). His postdoctoral research was carried out in three different countries First, he was an FRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan (2004-2005). Later, he joined as a postdoctoral researcher in the Center for Optical Technologies, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA. In April 2005, he re-joined the Integrated Optics Group at the University of Paderborn as Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter and continued his research on integrated nonlinear optical devices. He also worked for a while at Laboratoire Aime Cotton, CNRS, Orsay, France. Since August 2006, Dr. Das has been associated with the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras, where he is presently holding a full Professor position. At IIT Madras, Prof. Das has been dedicated to the development of in-house silicon photonics device technology starting from scratch. He has graduated six Ph.D. research scholars and as many as 15 MS research scholars to date all contributing towards the establishment of CoE-CPPICS starting from 1st January 2021.