Dhananjay Kumar received his bachelor degree in Electronics and Communication engineering from the Institution of Engineers (India), Calcutta in the year 1997. He was awarded a Master of Engineering (M. E.) in Industrial Electronic Engineering by the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in the year 1999. Subsequently he received a degree of Master of Technology (M. Tech.) in Communication Engineering from Pondicherry Engineering College (Now, Puducherry Technological University), Pondicherry in the year 2001. A Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D.) was awarded to him by Anna University, Chennai in the year 2009 for his research work on "Efficient Resource Allocation in Next Generation Multi Carrier Cellular Networks to Support Multimedia Traffic".

Currently, he is working as a Professor in the Department of Information Technology of Anna University at MIT Campus, Chennai.

Prof. Kumar's research work has been regularly contributed to the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) through the ITU-Kaleidoscope conferences held in different countries since the year 2009.

Prof. Kumar and his team is working on analysis of visual data in the live stream of CCTV video. Further, a group of researchers is working under his guidance for the development of augmented reality based solutions to the real-world problems.