Prof. Jitendra Kumar

IIT Kharagpur

Dr. Jitendra Kumar is currently serving as a Professor and Head of the Department of Mathematics at IIT Ropar, Punjab, India. Prior to joining IIT Ropar, he was associated with IIT Kharagpur, where he served as an Assistant Professor from 2009 to 2014, Associate Professor from 2014 to 2019, and Professor from 2020 to 2022. He obtained his M.Sc. in Industrial Mathematics from IIT Roorkee, followed by a second M.Sc. from the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. He was awarded a doctorate in 2006 by Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany. Following his Ph.D., he held a lectureship at the Institute for Analysis and Numerical Mathematics at the same university from 2006 to 2008.

Dr. Kumar is the recipient of several prestigious awards and fellowships, including the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, and DAAD and DFG scholarships. He has published more than 100 research articles in reputed international journals and has supervised 15 Ph.D. students. His research interests include numerical solutions of integro-differential equations, numerical analysis, and the modelling and simulation of problems in particulate systems.

Prof. Somesh Kumar

Prof. Somesh Kumar is a professor in the Department of Mathematics, IIT Kharagpur. He has over 32 years of experience of teaching courses on Probability Statistics, Statistical Inference, Sampling Theory, Stochastic Processes, Multivariate Analysis, Regression Analysis, Time Series, Experimental Designs, Decision Theory to undergraduate, postgraduate and doctorate students. His NPTEL courses (under MHRD) on Probability and Statistics, Statistical Inference and Statistical Methods for Scientists and Engineers (each of 40 hours) are available online and very popular. He has also taught Mathematics-I in QEEE program of MHRD to 130 engineering college students in online mode during Autumn 2014-2015. He offered the course “Probability and Statistics” for certification program in Jan-April 2016, Jan-April 2017, Jan-April 2019. He also offered the course “Statistical Inference” for certification program during Jan-April 2019. His lectures on “Probability” and “Permutation and combinations” for class XII students under IIT-PAL scheme of MHRD are also available through DTH channels of national television.

His research interests are Statistical Decision Theory, Estimation Theory, Testing of Hypothesis, Classification Problems, Directional Distributions, Limit Theorems. He has published more than 100 research papers in refereed reputed international journals and book chapters. He has supervised eleven Ph.D. students and more than two hundred fifty Masters (M.Tech./ M.Sc./B.Tech.) dissertations.

He has been guest professor in University of Ulm, Germany in July 2017 and June-July 2018 and in University of Dortmund in May-June 2019. He is Principal Investigator for a major research project “Drone for Vaccine Delivery” funded by the Indian Council for Medical Research. He has delivered invited lectures in various universities in India and abroad.

NOC: Advanced Calculus for Engineers, IIT Kharagpur