Atul Kumar, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)

Flat No. # ***, Sikka Karnam Greens, Sector – 143B, Noida Expressway, Noida – 201306, E: adc1d9@r.postjobfree.com, M: 995-***-****

Current Position: Dean - Academics, Sanskriti University, Mathura (Dec 2019 - Present)

Previous Position: Dean – School of Science & Liberal Arts, Mody University of Science & Technology, Lakshmangarh, Rajasthan (Apr 2017 - Dec 2019)

Applying for: Dean – Applied Sciences, Research & Consultancy, Dean - Ranking & Accreditation, Dean - Students Relations & Development

Passion for utilizing creativity, innovation, and leadership experience while preparing university students for 21st century in an environment that value collaboration, integrity and diversity

Executive Summary

A self-motivated extremely committed individual having ~ 20+ years (post Ph.D.) of professional experience in teaching, research, Institute building & University administration, industrial R&D and post-doctoral (in South Korea, Japan and USA) research experience.

An innovative and detail-oriented team player with extensive experience in Teaching, research and institution/university building.

Driven by a passion for creating value in an environment of shared ideas, efforts and

responsibilities

Education

Ph.D. in “Physics” (1998) “Fiber Optics & Optical Communication”, IIT, Delhi

M.Sc. in “Engineering Physics” (1991), IIT, Roorkee (erstwhile University of Roorkee)

B.Sc. in Physics, Chemistry & Mathematics (1988), MJP Rohailkhnad University, Bareilly

Professional Career

April 2017 – November 2019: Dean- (Sciences & Liberal Arts), Mody University, Lakshmangarh

Over all academic administration of 450 students

Seven departments and 55 faculty

Guiding overall marketing and admission strategy

Strategic planning and implementation of more than 30 UG and PG programs in Science & Arts

Mentoring 55 faculties of diverse background

Chairman of BOS and member of UGPC, PGRPC and Senate

Plans for INSPIRE and National Science Day celebration

Teaches 2 courses in every semester

Organization of school level seminars/talks and international conferences

On campus hostel administration (250 students)

NAAC documentation and presentation

October 2016 – March 2017: Officiating Dean (Engineering), Ansal University, Gurgaon

Responsible for overall academic administration of engineering school

August 2011 – March 2017: Professor of Physics, Ansal University, Gurgaon

August 2008 – July 2011: Associate Professor, Ansal University, Gurgaon

Co-PI on project “Self-assembly of Semiconductor Nanostructures for Sensing Application” approved and sanctioned by DST for Rs. 38.0 Lakh.

Writing Project proposal on “Investigation on Supercontinuum light generation in highly nonlinear optical fiber as PI. This project will be submitted to DST.

Since joining Ansal Institute of Technology (now Ansal University) in 2007, I have been involved in typically 12 – 14 hours of teaching per week in all the semester including summer semesters.

Guiding 3 PhD students. 2 Ph.D. awarded.

June 2009 – September 2009: Visited North Carolina State University (NCSU), Raleigh, as Research Professor to work on “Thin Film Nanostrucutre” in Prof. J Narayan’s Lab.

August 2006 – July 2007: Assistant Professor in the Department of ECE/Physics, Noida Institute of Engineering & Technology, Greater Noida.

Taught Physics (TAS – 101) and Optical Communication (TEC – 702) in Odd semester.

Taught Physics (TAS – 201) and Electromagnetism (TEC-401) in Even Semester.

Member of team responsible for Accreditation of ECE department

Member of internal flying squad and examination cell

August 2005 – July 2006: Lecturer in the department of Applied Physics, Amity School of Engineering (ASE)

Taught Physics – I (Fields & Waves), Physics – II (Modern Physics)

ASE coordinator for Foreign Business Language

ASE coordinator for Behavioral Science

April 2003 – March 2005: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in “Optics Device Laboratory” at Research Center for Advances in Science &Technology (RCAST) in ECE Department, University of

Tokyo, Japan

Design and development of femtosecond and picosecond fiber laser using P-APM and SESAM mode locking technique

Super-continuum generation in Highly nonlinear fiber using above developed laser pulses

Modeling and simulation of ring cavity fiber laser using programs/codes developed in Fortran

Simulation of super-continuum generation in highly nonlinear fiber

All fiber Chirped pulse amplification system modeling for generating high energy (~10nJ) ultrashort pulses (~100fs) pulses

January 2001 – March 2003: Group Leader (R&D) - Renka (India) Pvt. Ltd. (a subsidiary of RENKA Incorporation, USA)

Prepared ground works for the fabrication facility for the Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) based DWDM components such as wavelength locker and dispersion compensator

Involved in the design, development and production of fused fiber couplers such as 3dB and WDM couplers and optical isolators

Lead the business development of optical fiber installation, splicing and testing for various national telecom carriers such as Bharti, Reliance, RailTel, and Hutch etc.

January 2000 – December 2000: Lecturer in ECE Department in Institute of Technology and Management, Gurgaon

Taught Opto-Electronics and Optical Communication course (OE-OC) for the B. Tech (IVth Year) students in the department of Electronics and Communication Engineering

Took Analog Electronics and Communication Engineering lab for the B. Tech (IInd Year) students

June 1998 – July 1999: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Lightwave System Lab. In the Department of EE at Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), South Korea

Studies on DWDM based Optical Communication systems and Networks

System level theoretical and simulation study on crosstalk analysis introduced by Optical add drop multiplexers (OADM) and optical cross connect (OXC) and its effect on network performance

January 1998 – June 1998: Project Scientist at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Soliton dynamics in doped optical fiber

Academic Responsibility

Dean – School of Applied Sciences, Ansal University, August 2012 – May 2014

Responsible for academic and administrative affairs of the School

Introduced B.Sc. (in Engineering Physics, Industrial Chemistry and Statistics) and M.Sc. (in Nanotechnology, Biotechnology and Computational Mathematics) in academic session 2013 – 14

Design & development of course structure and course contents of above programmes

Guiding 8 ECE students for their final year B.Tech. project

Dean – School of Computer Applications, Ansal University, August 2013–May 2014 (Additional Charge)

Professor I/C (Ph.D. Programme), Ansal University, August 2012 – September 2013

Started and managing Ph.D. programme since inaugural year of Ansal University

Inducted 24 (in fall 2012) and 16 (in spring 2013) PhD scholars in 8 school – course work is going on for spring 2013 batch and synopsis submission for fall 2012 batch

Programme Director – B.Tech First Year of Ansal University (additional charge)

Looking after the academic performance of first year students belonging to CSE, IT, ECE, ME, AME and CE branches

Member – Academic Council, Ansal University

Head – Applied Sciences, Ansal Institute of Technology (AIT), Gurgaon, August 2008 – July 2012

Besides usual duties of Head played important role during the visits of AICTE, GGSIP

University, UGC, NAAC officials for grant of status and extension

Organized & attended various Mission 10X, IUCEE workshops

Administrative Responsibilities

Dean – Student’s Welfare, February 2015 – October 2016.

Looking after students well being

Organization of extra and co-curricular activities

Annual cultural festival

Scholarship to students

Dean – Admissions, March 2011 – February 2014

Responsible for counseling & admission of more than 800 students in B.Tech, BBA, B.Arch, BCA, B.Des, MBA, MCA pogrammes in 8 schools of Ansal University in the first academic session 2012-13

Running overall marketing & admission campaign including very calibrated digital marketing campaign for academic session 2014 - 15

Led & managed a team of more than 40 faculty and staff during admission process

Devised and developed efficient automated admission process with the help of IT team

Member – Board of Management, Ansal University

Faculty I/C (Library), August 2007 – September 2011

Over all administrator of the Institute Library having more than 30,000 books

Managing the duties and performance to 11 Library staff

Facing & handling visits of AICTE, GGSIP University, NAAC and UGC officials

Resident Warden, Sushant Lok Hostel, September 2007 – November 2009

Fellowships/Awards/Member of Professional body

Awarded Monbushogaku-sho fellowship to carry research in Japan from April 2003 to March 2005.

Life member of ISTE (Indian society for Technical Education) and member of OSI

Awarded Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship from June 1998 to July1999 at KAIST, South Korea

Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) from January1996 to December 1997 at IIT Delhi

Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) from January1993 to December 1995 at IIT Delhi

Qualified "Graduate Aptitude test in Engineering (GATE)" in March 1992 with 94.8 percentile

Research Interests

Nonlinear Fiber Optics

Optical Soliton theory

DWDM Optical communication systems

Fiber Lasers & Super-continuum generation

Nano-photonics

Teaching Interests

Fundamental physics (fields & waves and modern physics) courses to B.Tech students

Electromagnetic wave Theory & Transmission lines

Fiber optics & Opto-electronics, Quantum Electronics

Optical Fiber communication

Quantum Mechanics & Spectroscopy

Optics & Laser Physics

Solid State Physics

Atomic & Molecular Physics

Experimental Skills

Femtosecond and picosecond pulse measurement/characterization using second harmonic generation (SHG) in the conventional Michelson interferometer based Autocorrelator, OSA, power meter, photodetector and digital oscilloscope

Chromatic dispersion measurement system based on modulation phase shift method. This setup consists of (a) CW laser source (b) Polarizer (c) LN modulator @ 10GHz (d) high speed photodetector (e) Network analyzer

Erbium doped fiber characterization for Fiber Laser

Hands on experience on fiber optics Test and Measurement Equipment’s like OTDR, Splicing Machine, CW laser, power meter, OSA/monochromator, electrical spectrum analyzer and host of passive (fiber coupler, isolator, circulator fiber Bragg grating), active (modulators) optical devices and bulk optics components (waveplates, mirrors, polarization beam splitter focus lens), Semiconductor saturable absorption mirror (SESAM)

Computational Skills

Operating Systems worked on MS-DOS, Windows 95/98/NT Windows XP, Windows Vista, Unix

Computing language FORTRAN on Compaq Visual FORTRAN 6.0 platform

Scientific tools MATLAB, GNU, ORIGIN

Commercial software OptoSim, Rsoft Design and OPNET

List of Publications

Journal

1.Meenal Borkar, Nitin and Atul Kumar, A Survey on the Family of Gamma Interconnection Network, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Volume 10, Number 24, December 2015.

2.Meenal Borkar, Nitin and Atul Kumar, Topology Embedding on GIN Family, Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Information Technology, Grenze Scientific Society, May 2016.

3.Meenal Borkar, Nitin and Atul Kumar, NoCGIN: A Gamma Interconnection Network as an interconnect for Networs-on-Chip, International Journal of Computer Applications, Volume 14, Number 2, May 2016.

4.Meenal Borkar, Nitin and Atul Kumar, Effect of Changing Interconnection Patterns on Path Availability in Gamma Interconnection Network Variants, Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Hindawi Publishing Corporation.

5.Meenal Borkar, Nitin and Atul Kumar, Sorting GIN, A Gamma Interconnection Network for Parallel Divide and Shift Sorting, Journal of Information Processing Systems

6.Shweta Bansal, Atul Kumar and S.S. Agrawal, Speaker Adaptation on Hidden Markov Model using MFCC and Rasta-PLP and Comparative Study, Indian Journal of Science and Technology, Vol 9(28), July 2016.

7.Shweta Bansal, S.S. Agrawal and Atul Kumar, Comparative acoustic study of Hindi phonemes spoken by native and non-native speakers, The Journal of Acoustical Society of India (JASI) Vol. 43, No.2, 2016.

8.Shweta Bansal, Shyam S. Agrawal and Atul Kumar, Acoustic analysis and perception of emotions in Hindi speech using words and sentences, Accepted in International Journal of Information and Technology, 2017.

9.Megha Kharti and Atul Kumar, Simulation and experimental validation of hill-climbing algorithm for maximum power point tracking of solar photovoltaic plant, Current Science, vol. 113, no. 7, 10 October 2017.

10.Megha Kharti and Atul Kumar, Investigation of harmonics in a grid-tied solar photovoltaic system, International Journal of Renewable Energy Research, vol.7, no.2, 2017.

11.Megha Kharti and Atul Kumar, Two Variable Method for Fault Analysis in Grid Tied Solar Photovoltaic System, International Journal of Engineering and Technology (IJET), Vol 9 No 2 Apr-May 2017.

12.Ajit Kumar and Atul Kumar, "A comparative numerical study of soliton switching in nonlinear fiber coupler with saturating nonlinearity, " Optics Communication,Vol. 150, pp. 91-96 (1998)

13.Ajit Kumar and Atul Kumar, "A variational analysis of soliton switching in NLDC with saturating nonlinearity," Optical Quantum Electronics, Vol. 30, pp. 39-47, (1998)

14.Ajit Kumar and Atul Kumar, "Properties of bright solitons in averaged and averaged models for SDG fibers," Optics Communication, Vol. 125, pp. 377-384, (1996)

15.Ajit Kumar, Atul Kumar, T. Kurz and W. Lauterborn, "A comparative study of bright solitons in doped fibers with saturating nonlinearity," Pure. Appl. Opt., Vol. 5, pp. 283-292, (1996)

In Conferences

1.Yasuyuki Ozeki, Atul Kumar, Kenji Taira, Yuichi Takushima, and Kazuro Kikuchi, “A low noise pulse source using spectral slicing of supercontinuum generated from a long fiber amplifier,"

IEICE Society Conference, paper C-4-26, Sep. 2003.

2.Ajit Kumar and Atul Kumar, "Bistable solitons in semiconductor doped glass optical fiber," in the Proc. of the XXII National Symposium of the OSI on Optical and Opto-Electronics Instrumentation, pp. IXA8 - IXA9, 1995.

3.Ajit Kumar and Atul Kumar, "Soliton switching in NLDC made of SDG fibers." in the Proc. of the conference Recent Advance in Microwave and Lightwave, Ed. E.K. Sharma, pp. 38-43, New Age International Publishers, 1996.

4.Ajit Kumar and Atul Kumar, "Soliton switching in NLDC with saturating nonlinearity," in the Proc. of the International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics "PHOTONICS 96", Chief Editor J.P. Raina, pp. 661-665, 1997.

5.Ajit Kumar and Atul Kumar, "Hamiltonian analysis of soliton switching in NLDC of doped fibers," in the Proc. of the XXIII National Symposium of the OSI on the Optics and Opto-Electronics, pp. 111, 1996.

Personal Information:

Date of Birth: September 06, 1970

Marital status: Married with one Son

References

1.Dr. Kamlesh Mishra, Vice Chancellor, Rishihood University

2.Dr. Raj Singh, Former Vice Chancellor, Amity University

3.Dr. B P Pal, Dean – Academic Affairs, Mahindra Ecole Centrale

4.Mr. Sudhir Naudiyal - Registrar, Shiv Nadar University

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