Akshay Sunil Bhadage has been a Research Associate in the Department of Semiconductor and Optoelectronic Devices since July 2025. He recently completed his M.Sc. in Photonics at the University of Jena. He wrote his master's thesis, "Design, Modeling, and Characterization of Microring Resonators for Quantum Random Number Generation Applications," at the Fraunhofer IOF. He previously earned an M.Sc. in Physics from IISER Bhopal.