Rajesh Kumar, Ph.D., PDF(NUS, Singapore)Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, India, 302017
Dr. Rajesh Kumar received the Bachelor of Technology in Engineering degree with honors in Electrical Engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India in 1994, Master of Engineering with honors in Power Engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India in 1997 and Ph.D. degree in Intelligent Systems from the University of Rajasthan, India in 2005. He is currently Associate Professor at Department of Electrical Engineering; Adjunct Associate Professor at Centre of Energy and Environment at Malaviya national Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India.
He has been Research Fellow (A) at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at National University of Singapore from 2009-2011. He has been Reader from 2005-2009, Senior Lecturer from 2000-2005 and Lecturer from 1995-2000 at Department of Electrical Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology. He is the Founder of ZINE student innovative group.His background is in the fields of Computational Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, power engineering, energy harvesting and management, control theory, robotics, automation, bioinformatics , smart grid, manufacturing, computer vision and signal processing.
Research Interests and Activities:
Dr. Kumar’s current research interests include Power Electronics, Control and Smart Grid (Power Converters, Modeling of Electrical Drives, Field Oriented Control of Drives, Direct Torque Control of Drives, Sensorless Control of Drives, Condition Monitoring of Electrical Machines, Power Quality Improvement, Power Converters, Power Management, Intelligent Control, Optimal Control, Estimation and control), Computational Intelligence (Nature and Bio Inspired Metaheurisitc Algorithms, Simulated Annealing (SA), Artificial Life, Intelligent Water Drops (IWD), Harmony Search (HS), Firefly Algorithms (FA), Tabu Search, Enzyme Algorithm (EA), Swarm Intelligence, Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Bee Colony Optimization (BCO), Evolutionary Algorithms, Adaptive Dynamic Programming, Artificial Immune System, Foraging Algorithms, Multi Agent System, Fuzzy Systems, Type-I and Type-II Fuzzy system, Neuro-Fuzzy System, Neural Networks, Multi-Dimensional Neural Network, Adaptive Structures, ART, Hybrid Systems), Application of CI to Power and Energy Systems (Intelligent Control, Modeling and Optimization of Power Systems, Optimal Control and Energy Management in Micro-Grids and Distributed Energy Systems, Power System Management Technologies, Load Modeling, Estimation and Forecast, Power System Planning and Operation, Technologies for Smart Grids, Harmonics Detection and Cancelation), Application of CI to Sensor Networks (Dynamic Control and Scheduling of Sensor Networks, Energy awareness, Localization, Scheduling), Energy Harvesting (Solar Energy harvesting, Wind Energy harvesting, Vibration Energy harvesting, Thermal Energy harvesting, Wireless Energy Transfer), Application of CI to Signal and Image Processing (Pattern Recognition, Digital Filter Design, Image Filtering and Processing), Robotics and Mechatronics (Position and Motion Control, Intelligent Path Planning, Decision Making and Process Building, Robo System Dynamics), Application of CI to Bioinformatics (MSA, Secondary Structure Prediction). He has published over 150 refereed journal and conference papers and one patent. Dr. Kumar is also interested in developing theoretical and experimental tools to aid health and medical support system.
Dr. Kumar serves on the editorial boards of 10 journals, and has served as Technical Program Member and on the program committees of over 35 international conferences and workshops in the Artificial Intelligence, Power Electronics, Intelligent System, Robotics, Automation, Sensing, Computing, Systems , Control, Online Engineering and Engineering Education areas.
Dr. Kumar has presented more than 75 keynote speeches, invited talks and lectures, colloquia and seminars at research meetings, Faculty Development Programme, University departments, research centers, and companies.
The current research and development activities at include work on new generation algorithms, intelligent controllers, robotics, MAS, smart grid, self healing system, genetic sequence alignment, medical data analysis, nature inspired algorithms, energy management and design optimization.
Dr. Kumar has supervised 45 graduate and undergraduate students working on different projects within Computational Intelligence, Power Electronics, Energy System, robotics, computer vision, control, and optimization. He is presently supervising twelve Ph.D. students. Four Ph.D.(04) students have been awarded their degrees and one Ph.D.(01) student has submitted their thesis for evaluation. Sixteen (16) Master’s students have already graduated under his supervision. They have found employment both in the academia as well as in the industry (in USA, Korea, Australia, France, Singapore, Germany and in India). Three of the ten current Ph.D. students will be graduating within the next six months.
Dr. Kumar has been awarded Career Award for Young Teachers by All India Council of Technical Education, Government of India, 2000, Student Project Award at the 4th International Exhibition and Conference on New Technologies in Transmission, Distribution, Smart Grid, Renewable Integration (GRIDTECH 2013), April 2013 for Brain controlled Robot for Transmission line monitoring, 04 best paper awards at International Conferences, Student Project Award Innovations for Everyone National contest organized by National Geographic Channel and Volkswagen for developing a novel Electronic Goniometer for Biofeedback, Student Project Award at TI India Analog Design Contest, 2011, Student Project Award at the National Student Robot Competition by Ministry of Defense, Government of India, 2010, Biography Added to 2000 Outstanding Scientists 2008/2009 in International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, GREAT BRITAIN. Dr. Kumar is a Senior Member, IEEE, Fellow IETE, Member IE (I), Senior Member IACSIT, Life Member ISTE, Member IAENG.
e-mail. rkumar@ieee.org, rkumar.ee@mnit.ac.in
Rajesh Kumar, Ph.D. 