Samit K Ray is a Chair Professor in the Department of Physics at IIT-Kharagpur. He has previously served as the Director of S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata; Dean (Post-graduate and Research Studies), Head of the Department of Physics and Chairman of the School of Nanoscience and Technology, IIT-Kharagpur. His research interests are in the area of semiconductor materials and devices, quantum technology, low-dimensional materials and nanophotonic devices. He has served as a visiting faculty/scientist at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan; University of Delaware, USA; University of Texas at Austin, USA; Queens University of Belfast, UK; and NTU, Taiwan. He is an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences India, and the Indian National Academy of Engineering, and is the recipient of the INSA Young Scientist Award, UGC Homi Bhabha Award, MRSI Superconductivity and Materials Science Senior Award. He was elected Fellow of IASc in 2023.