Dr. Nitin Kumar is working as Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh since May 2023. Earlier, he worked as Assistant Professor in Department of Computer Science and Engineering at National Institute of Technology (NIT), Uttarakhand during July, 2013 to May 2023. Currently, he is Professor Incharge, Faculty Affairs at PEC Chandigarh since Jan. 2024. Before this assignment, he has shouldered several administrative responsibilities at NIT Uttarakahnd including Head of Department, Department of Computer Science and Engineering during 2014-2017, Coordinator, Faculty Development and Continuing Education during 2018-2019, Coordinator, Industry Institute Interaction and Brand Building during 2019-2020, Coordinatior (Institute Brochure and Newsletter) and Coordinator (Student Admission and Registration) during April 2022 - May 2023.
Dr. Nitin has obtained his B. Tech. from Kurukshetra University, Haryana in 2009, M. Tech. and Ph. D. degrees from School of Computer and Systems Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in the years 2011 and 2015 respectively. He has qualified GATE in Computer Science and Information Technology with 98.90 percentile in 2011, UGC-JRF in Computer Science and Applications in 2012 and CSIR-JRF in Engineering Sciences with All India Rank 50 in 2013. He is working in the research area of Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, Biometrics, Data Mining, Image Processing and Visual Attention Modeling for more than 13 years and has published 72 research papers out of which 39 are peer reviewed journal publications (including 32 publications in SCI/SCI-E indexed journals), 31 in International Conferences and 1 as book chapter. He has contributed to Indian adaption of four popular books published by Wiley India Pvt. Ltd. including (i) Pattern Classification by Duda, Hart and Stork (ii) Algorithms Design and Analysis of Algorithms by Goodrich and Tamassia (iii) Engineering Optimization by S. S. Rao (iv) Introduction to Linear Regression Analysis by Douglas C. Montogomery, Elizabeth A. Peck, G. Geofferry Vining. He has also been the editor of the Proceedings of the International Conferences on Advances in Computing Applications (ICACA) 2018 and Paradigms of Communication, Computing and Data Sciences (PCCDS) 2021 published by Springer.
He has successfully supervised 06 research scholars for their PhD degree. Two research scholars are currently pursuing their PhD degree under his supervision. He has also completed a Sponsored Research Project funded by UCOST, Dehradun as Principal Investigator (PI). Besides, he is also Co-Principal Investigator of a research project under Competitive research, TEQIP-III and Uttarakhand Technical University, Dehradun. He has organized 7 Short Term Training Programs and 4 International Conferences in the field of Computer Science and Engineering. He has also attended and presented research papers in International Conferences overseas at University of Victoria, Canada in 2016 and King Mogkut University of Technology, North Bangkok, Thailand in 2019. He has delivered more than 20 expert lectures in reputed institutions including NIT Kurukshetra, NIT Uttarakhand, Punjab Engineering College Chandigarh, CDAC Mohali, CSIR-CSIO Chandigarh, Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, Srinagar Garhwal, GB Pant Inst. of Engg. and Technology, Gurdauri, DBIT, Dehradun and JBIT, Dehradun, Maharaja Surajmal Institute of Technology, New Delhi, University of Delhi, New Delhi and Government College, Aharwala (Bilaspur), Affiliated to Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra.
He has received several awards at State, National and International levels. He got Merit Scholarship in matriculation from Board of School Education, Haryana in 2003. He has also received International Travel Award by Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India in 2016. He is the recipient of Young Scientist Award by Uttarakhand State Council of Science and Technology (UCOST), Dehradun in 13th Uttarakhand State Science and Technology Congress in 2019. He has also received the Best Paper Award in an International Conference ICACCT'2019 organized by NIT Kurukshetra in 2019. He has also been conferred Young Teacher Award in IEEE International Conference on Emerging Trends in Communication, Control and Computing at Mody University of Science and Technology, Rajasthan in 2020. He has also received Young Researcher Award in Computer Science and Engineering at the First Universal Innovators Leadership Awards (UILA) in 3rd International Conference on Innovative Computing and Communication jointly organized by University of Delhi and NIT Patna in 2020. He has also received Academic Professional Award in 4th International Conference on Innovative Computing and Communication jointly organized by University of Delhi and NIT Patna in Feb. 2021. Recently, he has been elected as Fellow of IETE, New Delhi in Dec. 2023.