Dr. Bibhu Prasad Swain works as Associate Professor in the Department of Physics. He was Ex. HOD, Ex. IIC President and Ex. Dean (Academic Affair) at the National Institute of Technology, Manipur. He pursued his B.Sc(Physics) from Utkal University, M.Sc(Physics), from NIT Rourkela M.Tech(Materials Science) from Barkatullah University & Ph.D. from Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, IIT Bombay. He was awarded JSPS Fellow (Govt. of Japan), Brain Korea 21 Fellow (Materials Research, Seoul National University), and NRF Fellow (University of Cape Town, South Africa) in his postdoctoral career. He was an Associate Professor at Sikkim Manipal University, Sikkim prior to join NIT Manipur. He has published 150 SCI/SCIE/Scopus indexed international journals, 24 book chapters, and 8 books for his credit.His broad areas of research interests include Large bandgap Semiconductors, Mechanical Hard-materials, Nanostructured materials, Graphene-based Supercapacitor, Photovoltaic materials, Biocompatible coating, Modeling of advanced MOSFET.