Dr. Pankaj Kumar Srivastava

Being a theoretical mathematician, Dr. Pankaj Kumar Srivastava has taught and developed several courses at the undergraduate level. His academic and teaching interests are in the areas of fuzzy optimization and computational methods. His objective as a teacher is to motivate students to develop their own learning interests and critical thinking & to establish a learner-centric environment in the classroom.

In his approximate 20 years long teaching and research career, Dr. Srivastava has initially taught at some of the prestigious Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow, affiliated institutions such as Shambhunath Institute of Engineering Technology, Allahabad, LDC Institute of Technical Studies, Allahabad, and Kashi Institute of Technology, Varanasi. Then he worked as an Assistant Professor at deemed university Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida from 1st July 2011 to 31 Jan 2022, followed by working as an Associate Professor from 1st Feb 2022 onwards at the same university.

He has  50 publications in refereed journals, conferences, and book chapters including the top journals like Expert Systems with Applications, Applied Soft Computing, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Journal of King Saud University-Science, Chinese Annals of Mathematics, Series B, Computers & Mathematics with Applications, Advances in Engineering Software etc. He has guided 3 Ph.D. Thesis, and currently he is guiding 1 Ph.D. scholar. He has served as a reviewer of several world-class journals (Like Applied Mathematics and Computation, Computational and Applied Mathematics, and International Journal of Nonlinear Science) and conferences.

He holds life membership in the Ramanujan Society of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences (RSMMS), International Association of Engineers (IAENG), Indian Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ISIAM), and Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics (FIM), along with serving on the editorial board of the Journal of Applied Mathematics and Engineering Computations (JAMEC). 

Apart from teaching and research-related roles and responsibilities, he has also served as a member of several central and departmental committees at the University level. He has organized a few faculty development programs along with a number of workshops.