Dr. Soumen Kar is a Research Scientist in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Houston, Texas. Previously, he was a Research Scientist in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the same university. He is also a Materials Engineer and Principal Investigator of SBIR projects in AMPeers LLC, Houston. As of now, he has received $1.5 million funding from US-DOE Phase – I and Phase – II SBIR projects on development of REBCO based highly flexible, low-cost STAR wire for compact accelerator magnet applications.

He received his MS and Ph.D. in Applied Superconductivity from the Cryogenic Engineering Center at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. During his PhD, he designed and developed a resistive type superconducting fault current limiter for the Indian power sector. He has over 10 years of experience in Applied Superconductivity and he scaled up highly flexible REBCO-based round wires to 60 meters and developed round REBCO wire architectures to achieve high engineering current density in high magnetic fields at 4.2 K. He has been the lead person in the development of the symmetric REBCO tapes and STAR wires. He has two pending patents on the development of round REBCO wires.