Personal

Name: Bhim Kumar (भीम कुमार)

Birthplace: Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, India

Date of Birth: January 1, 1996

Current Position

• March 2025–Present: Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Information Engineering, Automation and Mathematics, Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. 

Experience

• Oct 2024–March 2025: Institute Research Fellow (Postdoc), School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi

Education

Feb 2021–Feb 2025: Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, IIT Mandi

July 2017–June 2019: Master of Science (MSc) in Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Jamia Millia Islamia University

July 2013–June 2016: Bachelor of Science (BSc) with Honors in Mathematics, Aryabhatta College, University of Delhi

Major Interests (Keywords)

• Applied Mathematics

• Control Systems

• Switched Systems

• Multi-Agent Systems

• Time Scale Theory

• Model Predictive Control

Honor/Awards/Scholarships

• Travel Support, International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) 2026

• Institute Research Fellowship, IIT Mandi

• International Travel Support, DST-SERB, 2024

• CSIR Senior Research Fellowship (March 2023–October 2024)

• CSIR Junior Research Fellowship (February 2021–February 2023)

• Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) (March 2020)

• Joint CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test (NET) (January 2020)

Teaching Experience and Teaching Assistant at IIT Mandi

• Feb 2021–July 2021: IC111—Linear Algebra, TA Supervisor: Dr. Sarita Azad

• Aug 2021–Jan 2022: IC110, Engineering Mathematics, TA Supervisor: Dr. P. Anil Kisan

• Feb 2022–July 2022: MA582P-II, MSc. Mathematics Project 2, TA Supervisor: Dr. Muslim Malik

• Aug 2022–Jan 2023: MA581P-I, MSc. Mathematics Project 1, TA Supervisor: Dr. Muslim Malik

• Feb 2023–July 2023: IC252—Data Science 2, TA Supervisor: Dr. Sarita Azad

• Aug 2023–Dec 2023: School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, TA Supervisor: Dr. Muslim Malik

• Jan 2024–June 2024: IC114—Linear Algebra, TA Supervisor: Dr. Muslim Malik

• July 2024–Dec 2024: MA512—Linear Algebra, TA Supervisor: Dr. Vikash Tripathi

Conferences/Workshops (Attended/Presented/Coordinator)

• Presented a poster on "time-scale-based analysis of switched and multi-agent systems: stability, controllability, and consensus" at the 25th International Conference on Process Control from 3rd to 6th June 2025, Slovakia.

• Delivered an invited talk in the two-week Teachers Enrichment Workshop (TEW-2025) on differential equations and their applications from April 16 to April 29, 2025, at Jaypee Institute of Information Technology (JIIT), Noida, U.P., India.

• Attended the Graduate School on Advanced Sliding Mode Control, sponsored by IFAC, at IIT Jodhpur, from December 5-10, 2024.

• Co-Chair, Cooperative Control Systems Session at ICCA 2024, Reykjavik, Iceland.

• Presented and attended the 5th International Conference on Mathematical Techniques and Applications (ICMTA-2024) & Workshop on Scientific Computing, Modeling, and Deep Learning (WSCMDL), Department of Mathematics, SRM-IST, Chennai, India, January 2–6, 2024.

• 5-Day Workshop on Recent Advances in Differential Equations and Applications, Department of Mathematics, School of Advanced Sciences, VIT-AP University, Andhra Pradesh, India, October 27–31, 2023

• A short-term course on Network Sciences and Multi-Agent Systems at the Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, from June 19–30, 2023

• Student Coordinator at the International Conference on Differential Equations and Control Problems (ICDECP23), IIT Mandi, during June 15–17, 2023.

• Student Coordinator at the MTTS Program, School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, IIT Mandi, from 29 May to 26 June 2023.

• Workshop on Nonlinear Phenomena in Mathematical Biology (WoNPMB-2022) online at the Department of Applied Sciences, ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, from December 19-23, 2022.

• Student Coordinator at the Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ISTAM), IIT Mandi, during December 14-16, 2022.

• The 2nd Lecture Series on Mathematical Modeling in Biology (online) was organized by the Bangladesh Society for Mathematical Biology (BSMB) on October 15–16, 2022.

• International Conference on Dynamical Systems, Control Theory, & their Applications (July 1–3, 2022) (Hybrid Mode) organized by the Department of Mathematics, IIT Roorkee, India

• International Conference on Dynamical Systems and Numerical Methods (online), which was held from May 20–21, 2022, at the Department of Mathematics, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.

Reviewer

• American Control Conference

• Applied Mathematics and Computation

• European Control Conference

• IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications

• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems

• IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

• International Journal of Systems Science

• Journal of Control and Decision

• Neurocomputing

• Nonlinear Dynamics

Memberships and Activity Groups

• IEEE Student Member

• Interim Member, American Mathematical Society

• Institute of Measurement and Control

Position Hold at IIT Mandi

• September 2023–July 2024: Cultural Coordinator, Beas Kund Hostel (B-23), North Campus, IIT Mandi

• September 2022–August 2023: Cultural Coordinator, Manimahesh Hostel (B-9), South Campus, IIT Mandi