Dr. Anil Kumar is Associate Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering, with an additional charge of Additional Coordinator-Centre for Energy and Environment, Delhi Technological University, Delhi, India. He completed his Ph.D. in Solar Energy from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India in 2007. He was Post-Doctoral Researcher at Energy Technology Research Center, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand in the discipline of Energy Technology. His nature of experience in Teaching and Research (Science, Technology, Society, and Sustainable Development). His areas of specialization are; Energy Technology, Renewable Energy, Solar Energy Applications, Energy Economics, Heat Transfer, Natural Rubber Sheet Drying, and Environmental Issues. He hascompleted many research funded projects in these areas. He has published 205papers in international peer-reviewed journals and 80 papers in International/National conferences proceeding. He has received more than 6800+ citations with 45h-index (Google Scholar) and 4350+ citations with 36 h-index (SCOPUS). He is authors12 book (4 National and 8 International editions). He is Fellowand Chartered Engineer of The Institution of Engineers (India) (vide no. F-1268879, date of election 24-08-2020). Also appears as most cited number Information Systems (IS) researchers featured in the World Ranking of “Top 2% scientists created by Stanford University since 2019”. He also appeared in AD Scientific Index 2021, 2022 and 2023: World Scientist and University Rankings. 01 granted patent and 04 published patents in his credit. He has supervised 10 Ph.D. scholars, 43 master students. Dr. Kumar has visited countries, namely UK, Thailand, UAE and Malaysia.
He has received various awards and appreciation from reputed sources. Some of them are presented as:
• Commendable Research Award 2019, 2021and 2022: Publishing a quality research paper in Delhi Technological University, Delhi, India.
• Outstanding Researcher Award in Energy Engineering from STAIR AWARDS 2021.
• Experts: Energy Solutions, BRICS-YSF, Expert Selection Committee, 2021, DST, Govt. of India.
• Outstanding Scientist Award 2021 in the International Scientist Awards on Engineering, Science and Medicine from VDGOOD Professional Association.
• Distinguished Scientist Award 2021 in the International Scientist Awards on Engineering, Science and Medicine from VDGOOD Professional Association.
• Research Excellence Award 2016: The researcher has Top 20 Publications from the Web of Science database, honored by Dr. ChusakLimsakul, President Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Thailand.