Rate My Professor Ranjith Rajasekharan Unnithan

University of Melbourne

#4,880 worldwide#4,768 in Australia

Electrical Engineering Electronics Optical Engineering Biomedical Engineering Agricultural Engineering Machine Learning

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4.08/20/2025

Inspires students to love learning.

4.05/21/2025

Patient, kind, and always approachable.

5.03/31/2025

Makes complex topics easy to understand.

4.02/27/2025

Encourages innovative and creative solutions.

5.02/4/2025

Great Professor!

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About Ranjith

Associate Professor Ranjith Rajasekharan Unnithan serves in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering within the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Melbourne. His research centers on sensor engineering, encompassing image and spectral sensors, machine learning applications on sensors, augmented reality displays, drone-based sensor technologies for precision agriculture, electronic sensors for biomedical applications, new thermal spectral cameras, and nanophotonic engineering. Unnithan obtained his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cambridge, developing a voltage-reconfigurable nanophotonic phase modulator technology featuring more than one million phase-modulating elements in silicon. His professional journey began as a Scientist and Engineer at the Indian Space Research Organization in Bangalore, where he contributed to India's Chandrayaan-1 lunar mission and received the Young Scientist Award from the President of India in 2007. Following his PhD, he worked at Cambridge on a Samsung project before joining the University of Melbourne as a Lecturer in 2014, later becoming an Associate Professor and Research Group Leader.