Lead Scientist

Dr. Ramna Khalid

Teaching Fellow, Department of Electrical Engineering, ITU Lahore

Research Interests

Meta-optics Tunable Devices LiFi Optical Wireless Communication Metasurface Fabrication Nanophotonics

Biography

Dr. Ramna Khalid is a researcher and educator in Electrical Engineering at ITU Lahore and Faculty Advisor of the ACM Student Chapter ITU (2025). She completed her PhD in Electrical Engineering at ITU under Dr. Muhammad Zubair and Dr. Muhammad Qasim Mehmood, focusing on meta-optics, tunable devices, LiFi and optical wireless communication.

She holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from GCU Lahore (2018–2020, Gold Medalist) and a BS from UET Lahore (2017). She received a TRIL Fellowship at ICTP Italy (2023) and an International Research Support Fellowship from PHEC, enabling a visiting researcher position at NUS Singapore working on metasurface fabrication and nanophotonic devices. Her earlier roles include Lab Engineer and Lecturer at UMT Lahore.

Recent Publications +

Fluidic-Based Reconfigurable Polarization-Insensitive Metasurfaces for Optical Wireless Communications — Advanced Optical Materials, Volume13, Issue 9, 2402872 (2025)
Compact and Inverted Digital Holographic Microscope Based on Common-path Configuration — Applied Optics, Vol. 64, Issue 7, pp. B65-B71 (2025)
HoloLume: Point-of-Application Holographic Imaging Solution — Measurement Science and Technology, 36 015708 (2024)
Enhancing Axial Resolution in Dermoscopy Using an RGB Flat Lens, — Optical Materials Express, 14, 2623-2633 (2024)
Fluid-Infiltrated Metalens-Driven Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Optical Wireless Communications — Advanced Science, 11, 2406690 (2024)
Fluid responsive Tunable Metasurfaces for High-fidelity Optical Wireless Communication — Materials Horizons, 11, 5997 6006 (2024)