DR. VINAY KUMAR

Associate Professor

Associate Head

PhD in Electrical Engineering, Jaypee University of Information Technology, Noida, India

Associate Professor, Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Bhadson Road, Patiala-147004, Punjab

vinay.kumar@thapar.edu

Vinay Kumar is Associate Professor at Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala. His team focuses on Image Processing, Deep Learning for Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing. The research focuses on development of computationally efficient deep learning models, sentiment analysis through natural language analysis, super resolution, and image fusion. He has published many papers in journals of international repute and patents.
He is an energetic, technology driven and learner centric teacher. He was part of a year long Academic Practice and eLearning program by the Centre for Academic Practice and eLearning, Trinity College Dublin. He is also part of Venture Lab at Thapar Institute, it helps students to be entrepreneurs through a full four-year cycle of courses, laboratories, workshops, and invited lectures on embedding entrepreneurship in engineering. The venture lab works in collaboration with Venture Lab North, University of Groningen. He organized many international conferences and workshops, and delivered a few invited lectures.