Vinit Kumar

Dr. Vinit Kumar

Assistant Professor

Department of Library and Information Science,

School of Information Science and Technology

Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University(A Central University), Lucknow, 226025

Dr. Vinit Kumar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Library and Information Science, School of Information Science and Technology, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (A Central University), Lucknow, India. He holds a PhD in Library and Information Science from the Documentation Research and Training Centre, Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) under the University of Calcutta, along with an MLISc from Banaras Hindu University and a BSc from the University of Allahabad, and has over a decade of teaching and extensive research experience in the field.bbau+2

His specializations include text and data mining, information technology applications in libraries, research methods and statistical techniques, information storage and retrieval, web technologies, semantic web, web‑scale discovery, digital libraries, digital archiving, and user studies. He has authored numerous journal articles, conference papers, and book chapters on topics such as web‑scale discovery services, scholarly journal suggester tools, topic modeling of doctoral research, and web accessibility of cultural heritage resources, and maintains active scholarly profiles on platforms like Google Scholar and ORCID.orcid+4

Dr. Kumar teaches across PhD, MLISc, and BLISc programmes, covering courses in research methodology and statistical techniques, advanced and basic information technology, information storage and retrieval, and digital libraries, and has contributed e‑content modules to national initiatives such as ePG Pathshala. He has supervised multiple PhD, MPhil, and MLISc dissertations in areas including library portals, digitization and digital preservation of cultural heritage, bibliometrics, and continuing professional development of LIS professionals.sites.google+1

Beyond teaching and research, he is regularly invited as a resource person for workshops and training programmes on web scraping, OCR, handling datasets, APIs, cloud computing, DSpace, social media data mining, and research ethics and plagiarism, reflecting a strong engagement with practice‑oriented skill building for researchers and LIS professionals.