Personal profile: I did my schooling from Delhi Public School, Bhilai (Chhattisgarh) after which I joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras as a Dual Degree student (Microelectronics and VLSI) in the fall of 2007. Through my 4 years of education at IITM, I have developed a keen interest in the fields of semiconductor devices (modeling and fabrication) and photonics. The Integrated Optoelectronics group at IITM offers a wonderful chance to students to explore both. The focus of my final year project is the design, fabrication and characterization of a high-speed p-i-n modulator using photonic wire waveguide in SOI platform