1995 - 2025
1995 - 2025


Convocation 2025 was held on May 15, 2025 with Dr. Dhuvvri Seshagiri, Director, NPOL Kochi as the Chief Guest

Congratulations to Aswin Prakash, Third Semester M. Tecjh (Opto Electronics and Laser Technology) Student at the International School of Photonics, CUSAT, for being selected for the student exchange program to University of Gothenburg, Sweden, as part of the Erasmus Plus Agreement between University of Gothenburg and CUSAT. Aswin will carry out his final year project work at University of Gothenburg.

Congratulations to Hiba Sainudeen, Loraien Raju and Shabina Abbas, final year MSc Photonics students at the International School of Photonics, CUSAT, for being selected for the exchange programme at ENSSAT, University of Rennes, France as part of the International Exchange. Programme in Optical Communications. The three students will be spending the final year of the 5-year MSc Photonics program at ENSSAT, France, under the fully funded program.

Students from ENSSAT, University of Rennes, France are visiting ISP for a Semester and Crediting the courses, as part of the Student Exchange agreement between the two institutions. The students are seen with their Yoga Instructor at ISP.

International School of Photonics congratulates Aiswarya S and Sreelakshmi S, final year students of the 5-year Integrated MSc Photonics, for being selected for an International Exchange Program at the University of Technology of Troyes (UTT), France.
Both students will be spending one semester at UTT, based on an agreement between Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT) and UTT. After the completion of the fall semester, the students will continue to undertake a project at UTT or similar institutions in France.


Charpak Scholarship 2024
International School of Photonics congratulates Aiswarya S and Sreelakshmi S, final year students of the 5-year Integrated MSc Photonics, for being awarded the France Excellence Charpak Exchange Scholarship 2024. They will join their final year at University of Technology of Troyes, France.

Best wishes to Abhishek Sureshkumar, student of MSc Photonics at ISP, who recently joined as a PhD student at the Systèmes Photoniques research group at the University of Rennes, France.
Abhishek is working at the INSTITUT FOTON, ENSSAT, and currently studies whispering gallery modes microsphere visible light sources based on single quantum emitters.





Congratulations Dr. Saji K J, Director
for winning the
Distinguished Young Faculty Award
Congratulations to Vijoy K V , Ph D Student
for winning the
Distinguished Researcher Award


Prof. (Dr.) Pramod Gopinath has been elected as a Fellow of the Kerala Academy of Sciences (KAS), Thiruvananthapuram. The fellowship (FAS) was conferred by the Honorable Governor Sri Arif Mohammed Khan on October 25, 2023 at CSIR-NIIST, Thiruvananthapuram.
NANO PHOTONICS | FIBER OPTICS | FIBER OPTICS SENSORS | BIO-PHOTONICS | NONLINEAR OPTICS | CHALCOGENIDE GLASSES | LASER INDUCED PLASMA | PHOTONIC CRYSTALS | MAGNETOPLASMONICS | SPECTROSCOPY | SOLAR CELLS | SPECLE INTERFEROMETRY | 2D MATERIALS




Silver Jubilee Celebrations of International School of Photonics was inaugurated by
Nobel Laurate Prof. Donna Strickland (Nobel Prize in Physics - 2018),
by delivering a lecture on February 25, 2021.
Honorable Vice-Chancellor Prof. K N Madhusoodhanan, presided over the function conducted online.
Prof. Pramod Gopinath, Professor and Director, International School of Photonics has been admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC).
Vice-Chancellor of CUSAT, Prof. K N Madhusoodanan awarded a Letter of Appreciation to Dr. Pramod Gopinath, in the presence of Dr. Meera V, Registrar, CUSAT

