Dr. Ajeet Kumar is currently working as Assistant Professor in School of Mechanical Engineering. He has total experience of 3.5 years of teaching and research. He has been associated with Galgotias University since 2025. He is firm Believer of productivity and efficiency in work. He Exhibits an honest work ethic with the ability to excel in fast-paced, time-sensitive environment. Being a passionate teacher, He believes that teaching is not merely restricted to making the students understand the underlying concepts of a course but also to develop critical thinking and evaluate alternate approaches for problem solving. He always put her efforts towards the overall developments of her students. He has convened/organized more than 26 co-curricular/Extracurricular events for the benefit of students in the past 4 years.

Experience

• 4 years of teaching and research experience

Qualification

• Post Doctorate Fellow, Department of Applied Mechanics, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, New Delhi
• Post Doctorate Fellow Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, Uttarakhand 
• Ph. D, Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Patna, Bihar, 2021
• M. Tech., Mechanical Engineering, BIT Sindri, Govt. of Jharkhand, 2015
• B. E., Mechanical Engineering, LNCT (RGPV), Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, 2013

Award & Recognition

• Academic Excellence award for the academic year 2023-24, at JSPM Group of Institutions, Pune
• Best poster award in the conference “ADVANCED IN MATERIALS AND PROCESSING: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES” organized by Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, IIT Roorkee, Aug 2022 
• Got award for best performance at GIAN course named “stretchable transducers for soft robotics and energy harvesting” at IIT Patna 
• Qualified GATE two times in 2013 and 2014 and getting scholarship from M.H.R.D. 
• Worked at Advanced Robotics Centre, NUS Singapore, Singapore during PhD on joint collaborative project work of IIT Patna and NUS Singapore. 

Research

• Ajeet Kumar, Dilshad Ahmad, Karali Patra, Dependence of Actuation Strain of Dielectric Elastomer on Equi-biaxial, Pure Shear and Uniaxial Modes of Pre-stretching, IOP Conf. Series: Materials Science and Engineering 310 (2018) 012104, presented in International Conference on Advanced in Materials and Manufacturing Applications (IConAMMA 2017), August 17-19, 2017, Bangalore, India. 
• Ajeet Kumar, Dilshad Ahmad, Karali Patra, Barium Titanate Particle Filled Silicone Elastomer Composite: Preparation and Evaluation of Morphology and Mechanical Behaviour, IOP Conf. Series: Journal of Physics: 1240 (2019) 012049 (presented at NFEST 2019, NIT Krukshetra, India. 
• Ajeet Kumar, Karali Patra, Mokarram Hossain, Silicone composites cured under a high electric field: an electromechanical experimental study, Polymer Composites. 2020, 42 (2), 914-930. 
• Ajeet Kumar and Karali Patra. "Proposal of a generic constitutive model for deformation-dependent dielectric constant of dielectric elastomers." Engineering Science and Technology, an International Journal (2021). 
• Ajeet Kumar, Dilshad Ahmad, Karali Patra, and Mokarram Hossain. "Enhancement of electromechanical properties of natural rubber by adding barium titanate filler: An electro‐mechanical study." Journal of Applied Polymer Science: 50991. 
• Ajeet Kumar, Anup Teejo Mathew, Anup Sankar Sadangi, Abhishek Saini, Dilshad Ahmad, Mathew Teejo Anup, Capacitive extensometry for the estimation of meaningful stretch dependent dielectric strength of dielectric elastomer, IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, 30, 2, 563-570, 2023.

• Ajeet Kumar, Satish Jaiswal, Rita Joshi, Siddharth Yadav, Anshu Dubey, Divyam Sharma, Debrupa Lahiri and Indranil Lahiri, Energy harvesting by piezoelectric PVDF/ZnO/CNTs composite under cyclic uniaxial tensile deformation, Polymer Composites 44(8), 4746-4756.

• Anup Shankar Shadangi, Ajeet Kumar, Karali Patra, Analysis of Stretch Dependent Capacitance and Its Effects on Energy Conversion of a Donut Shaped Dielectric Elastomer Generator, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement, 71, 1-10, 2022.

• Saha, Subhabrata, Anil K. Bhowmick, Ajeet Kumar, Karali Patra, Pierre-Jean Cottinet, and Kritsadi Thetpraphi. Polyvinylidene Fluoride/Hydrogenated Nitrile Rubber-Based Flexible Electroactive Polymer Blend and Its Nanocomposites with Improved Actuated Strain: Characterization and Analysis of Electrostrictive Behavior. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 59, no. 8 (2020): 3413-3424.

• Sudhir Kumar, Tipu Kumar, Ajeet Kumar, VC Srivastava, GK Mandal, Dynamic recrystallisation of API X80 grade micro alloyed steel during hot deformation, Thermo- mechanical Processing of Steels & th 5 Gleeble User Workshop India (GUWI-2015).

• Krishna Veer Singh Gurjar, Anup Sankar Sadangi, Ajeet Kumar, Dilshad Ahmad, Karali Patra, Mokarram Hossain, Dielectric Elastomer Generators: An Extensive Review of Materials, Electronic Circuits, Prototype Development, and Performance Evaluation, 6(1), 2400221.

• Dilshad Ahmad, Muhammed S. Parancheerivilakkathil, Ajeet Kumar, Mohit Goswami, Rafic M. Ajaj, Karali Patra, Mohammad Jawaid, Konstantin Volokh, Yahya Zweiri, Recent developments of polymer-based skins for morphing wing applications, Polymer Testing, 2024, 108463.

• Shah, Md Shamim, Ravindra Sadashiv Deshpande, and Ajeet Kumar. "Mathematical modelling and experimental investigation of inter-electrode gap in vibration-assisted micro-EDM dressing." Advances in Materials and Processing Technologies (2024): 1-24.

• Ajeet Kumar, Dilshad Ahmad, Karali Patra, Rafic M. Ajaj, Yahya Zweiri, The Role of Temperature, Frequency, and Pre-stretch on Dielectric Constant of Electroactive Polymer Performance. (Accepted)

Area of Interest

• Soft Robotics, Dielectric Elastomers Fabrications 
• Dielectric, Electromechanical, and Mechanical characterizations of smart and soft materials
• Energy harvesting applications of dielectric elastomers 
• Piezoelectric materials and their applications in energy harvestings 

Project works carried out

• Worked on TATA steel project at National Metallurgical Laboratory (NML) Jamshedpur from Dec 2014 to July 2015. 
• Worked on IIT Patna and NUS Singapore collaborative project supported by Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi and Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore from August 2015 to August 2018. 
• Worked on project funded by ASEM-DUO fellowship programme, Grant/Award Number, 2020. 
• Worked on DST funded project at iHUB Divyasampark a joint governing body by IIT Roorkee and Department of Science and Technology, Roorkee, UK
• Worked on collaborative project of AIIMS Delhi and IIT Delhi, Department of Applied Mechanics, IIT Delhi.