Pawan Kumar is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the International Institute of Information Technology, where he leads the numerical algorithms group. He was born and broughtup in a small hill town of Shillong. He completed his graduation in MS in Mathematics and Computing from IIT, Guwahati. Later he went on to do PhD from INRIA, followed by postdocs in Belgium and Germany. His primary research intetrests are in numerical algorithms applied to scientific computing, image processing, and machine learning. He also takes interest in high performance computing. He has worked on funded projects form DST, Ripple, and ERCIM before.
For more information please visit: https://faculty.iiit.ac.in/~pawan.kumar/ or the NAG website: https://faculty.iiit.ac.in/~pawan.kumar