Amritha Premkumar is a Doctoral Researcher at Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus‑Senftenberg, where she works under the supervision of Dr.-Ing. habil. Christian Herglotz. Her research focuses on energy‑efficient adaptive video streaming, video quality assessment, and complexity‑aware encoding for next‑generation multimedia systems. She has co‑authored multiple publications in leading venues. Before starting her PhD, she gained industry experience at EY and Cerner, contributing to software engineering, automation tooling, and QA processes. She holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science from RPTU Kaiserslautern‑Landau and a B.Tech in Computer Science Engineering from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.