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Prof Rajesh Kumar

Professor (Artificial Intelligence)
Name: Rajesh Kumar
Location: 2304q, John Orr Building Doornfontein Campus
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Tel: 011 559 9141

Email:听rkumar@uj.ac.za

About Prof Rajesh Kumar

Highest Qualification:

B.Tech. (Honors), M.E. (Honors), PhD, PDF (NUS Singapore)

Biography:

Rajesh Kumar (SMIEEE, Fellow IET(UK), Fellow IE(I), Fellow IETE, LMCSI, LMISTE) received the B.Tech. (Hons.) degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Kurukshetra, India, 1994, the M.E. (Hons.) and Ph.D. degrees in Power Systems and Intelligent Systems from the Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT) Jaipur, Rajasthan, India 1997, and 2005 respectively. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National 欧美福利100000 of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, from 2009 to 2011. Currently, He is working as a Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the Department of Human Anatomy and Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, 欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg, South Africa and a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, MNIT, Jaipur, India.

His research interests focus on Intelligent Systems, Computational Neuroscience, Healthcare and Energy. He holds 20 patents/patent applications and has published over 750 research articles in international conferences and journals. He has supervised 28 Ph.D. and more than 50 master theses. He is the recipient of several academic, best papers, best theses, and professional awards. He was felicitated with the Career Award for Young Teachers in 2002 by the Government of India. He has delivered more than 300 keynotes/expert talks in various conferences, Faculty Development Programs and workshops.

He has been on the research boards of more than 30 universities across the world. He is also on the board of studies of 20 universities in India. He has also worked as an accreditation evaluator for NBA, NAAC, and AICTE.

He was conference program chair of PEDES 2018, general co-chair of ICRAIE 2018, IICPE 2018, and ICPS 2019. He was the general chair of PEDES 2020, AISCC 2020, GCAIA 2020, PEDES 2022. He has been an Associate Editor of IEEE Access, IEEE ITeN (Industrial Electronics Technology News), Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Elsevier, IET Renewable and Power Generation, IET Power Electronics, International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computing and CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, IET.

He has been an IEEE counsellor and founding faculty advisor IEEE IAS student chapter at MNIT, Honorary Secretary IETE Rajasthan Chapter, ExCom member IEEE Delhi PES-IAS, and Vice Chairman IEEE Rajasthan Subsection. He is an IEEE IAS Distinguished Lecturer 2024-25.

Expertise/ Research Interest:

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Intelligence, Computational Neuroscience, Healthcare, Energy and Robotics

Research Niche:

Artificial Intelligence Models, Algorithm Design, Vision and Signal for medical applications, GAIT

Publications: (2024 onward)

1. K. Saini, S. Yelisetti, A. S. Al-Sumaiti, R. Kumar, G. Sharma, 鈥淐loud Energy Storage Management Under Building Thermal Comfort and Net Load Seasonal Uncertainty Scenario鈥�, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 2025.
2. D. Chetty, R. Gandhi, G. Sharma, E. 脟elik, R. Kumar, 鈥淓nhanced Automatic Voltage Regulation Using an Extended PIDA Controller Optimized by the Snake Algorithm鈥�, Results in Engineering, Elsevier, 2025.
3. Raju, P. Sharma, R. Khajuria, R. Kumar, R. Lamba, 鈥淓fficient Parameter Extraction for Accurate Modeling of PEM Fuel Cell using Alibaba and Forty Thieves Algorithm鈥�, Multiscale and Multidisciplinary Modeling, Experiments and Design, Springer, Vol. 8, 1-26, 2025.
4. Swati, R. Nagar, R. Kumar, R. Gupta, “Application of non-destructive methods for predicting the concrete鈥檚 compressive strength, using hyper-tuned machine learning techniques” Iranian Journal of Science and Technology, Transactions of Civil Engineering, Springer, 2025.
5. Ameena S. Al-Sumaiti, Reem S. Al-Alia, V. K. Saini, N. Al-Saifa, R. Kumar, 鈥淓valuating Drivers of Water-Energy Use: Insights from a Selected Higher Education 欧美福利100000 in Abu Dhabi, UAE鈥�, Sustainable Futures, Elsevier, 2025S.
6. Yadav, S. Chaudhary, R. Kumar, P. Nkomozepi, 鈥淐onsciousness Driven Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity鈥�, Expert Systems with Applications, Elsevier, Vol. 269, 1-11, 2025.
7. Harjule, R. Sharma, R. Kumar, 鈥淔ractional-Order Gradient Approach for Optimizing Neural Networks: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis鈥�, Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, Elsevier, Vol. 192, 16009, 2025.
8. K. Saini, A. Al-Sumaiti, R. Kumar, 鈥淓conomic viability of cloud energy storage with e-mobility in residential mini-grid: Impact of e-mobility on CES鈥�, Handbook on New Paradigms in Smart Charging for E-Mobility, Elsevier, 509-548, 2025.
9. R. Joy, R. C. Bansal, R. Kumar, C. Ghenai, E. Gryazina, A. Sujil, 鈥淧ower converter topologies for electric vehicle chargers: Future technology, challenges, and trends鈥�, Handbook on New Paradigms in Smart Charging for E-Mobility, Elsevier, 121-157, 2025.
10. K. Rathor, A. Al-Sumaiti, R. Kumar, E. El-Saadany, H. Zeineldin, 鈥淩equirement of integration of renewable energy sources (RES) with charging infrastructure鈥�, Handbook on New Paradigms in Smart Charging for E-Mobility, Elsevier, 197-224, 2025.
11. Gehlot, S. Meena, R. Kumar, P. Harjule, 鈥淴AI-Enhanced EEG Analysis for Limb Task Identification鈥�, Book Chapter, 2025
12. K. Vats, C. Prakash, A. Kaur, R. Kumar, 鈥淢arker less Sagittal Gait Analysis of Cerebral Palsy in Children Using Pose Estimation Techniques鈥� International Conference on Innovation in Computing and Engineering (ICE- 2025), Delhi, India, February 28 鈥� March 01, 2025.
13. Bhukya, M. Bukya, R. Kumar, A. Mathur, 鈥淚nsulation Detection of Electric Vehicle Using Least Mean Square Algorithm鈥�, IEEE International Conference on Next Generation Communication & Information Processing (INCIP-2025), Manipal, India, January 23-24, 2025.
14. Gehlot, A. Vijayvargiya, R. Kumar, A. R. Garg, N. Dey, 鈥�1D self- organizing feature map technique for diagnosis of COVID颅19 infection鈥�, Book Chapter, Medical knowledge paradigms for enabling the digital health ecosystem, 2025
15. Deshwal, S. Chaudhary, R. Kumar, 鈥淐hemical reaction and inclined magnetic field effects on tri-hybrid Carreau nanofluid slip flow of blood past a porous inclined stenosed artery with viscous dissipation鈥�, Physica Scripta, 2024.
16. Kumar, L. B. N. Sudarshan, A. Kumar, R. Kumar, 鈥淎 review of computer vision applications in litter and cleanliness monitoring鈥�, Waste and Resource Management, Emerald, 1-24, 2024.
17. K. Mahto, M. Bukya, R. Kumar, A. Mathur, V. K. Saini, 鈥淕AT-ADNet: Leveraging Graph Attention Network for Optimal Power Flow in Active Distribution Network with High Renewables鈥�, IEEE Access, Vol. 12, 185728-185739, 2024.
18. K. Saini, R. Kumar, Sujil A., R.C. Bansal, C. Ghenai, M. Bettayeb, V. Terzija, E. Gryazina, P. Vorobev, 鈥淢ulti Agent Framework for Consumer Demand Response in Electricity Market: Applications and Recent Advancement鈥�, Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks, Elsevier, Vol. 40, 1-14, 2024.
19. Yelisetti, V. K. Saini, R. Kumar, E. H. Forushani, A. S. Al Sumaiti, 鈥淢odelling and Management of Flexible Residential Building Components using System Based Heuristic Approaches鈥�, IET Smart Grid, Vol. 7, Issue 6, 967-982, 2024.
20. Sandilya, N. Gehlot, R. Kumar, M. Bukya, 鈥淕enerating Topic-Agnostic Conversations with LLMs鈥� IEEE Access, Vol. 12, 145540-145549, 2024.
21. Khajuria, M. Bukya, R. Lamba, R. Kumar, 鈥淥ptimal Parameter Identification of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell using Modified Fire Hawk Algorithm鈥�, Scientific Reports, Springer Nature, Vol. 14, 22469, 2024.
22. Gehlot, A. Jena, A. Vijayvargiya, R. Kumar, 鈥渟XFS-HGR: sEMG-based XAI Fusion Framework for Feature Selection of Hand Gesture Recognition鈥�, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier, Vol 137, Part A, 109119, 2024.
23. Khajuria, R. Lamba, R. Kumar, M. Bukya, 鈥淥ptimal Parameter Extraction of PEM Fuel Cell using a hybrid Weighted Mean of Vectors and Nedler-Mead Simplex Method鈥�, IEEE Access, Vol 12, 121346 – 121367, 2024.
24. Jena, N. Gehlot, R. Kumar, A. Vijayvargiya, M. Bukya, 鈥渟upDQN: Supervised Rewarding Strategy Driven Deep Q-Network for sEMG Signal Decontamination鈥�, IEEE Access, Vol 12, 74185 – 74196, 2024.
25. Vijayvargiya, A. Sinha, A. Jena, N. Gehlot, R. Kumar, K. Moran, 鈥淪-WD-EEMD: A Hybrid Framework for Imbalanced sEMG Signal Analysis in Diagnosis of Human Knee Abnormality鈥�, Frontiers PLOS ONE, 1-21, 2024.
26. Mushtaq, S. Bhattacharjee, S. Mandia, K. Singh, S. S.听 Chouhan, R. Kumar, P. Harjule, 鈥淎rtificial intelligence for computer aided detection of pneumoconiosis: A succinct review since 1974鈥�, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier, Vol 133, Part E, 2024, 108516.
27. Kajala, S. Jaiswal, R. Kumar, 鈥淒eciphering Breast Cancer Survival: An In-Depth Analysis of Predictive Factors Using Exploratory Data Analysis鈥� African Journal of Biological Sciences, Vol 6, Issue 6, 1021-1037, 2024.
28. Saxena, S. Shekhawat, R. Kumar, A. Mehta, J. Jangid, 鈥淟aplacian Atom Search Optimization Algorithm: Development and Application for Harmonic Estimator Design鈥�, e-Prime – Advances in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Energy, Elsevier, Vol. 8, 100536, 2024.
29. Kajala, S. Jaiswal, R. Kumar, 鈥淏reaking the Black Box: Heatmap-Driven Transparency to Breast Cancer Detection with Efficientnet and Grad CAM鈥� Educational Administration: Theory and Practice, Vol 30, Issue 5, 4999-5009, 2024.
30. Bukya, R. Kumar, A. Mathur, D. Bandhu, V. S. Reddy, 鈥淭hermo-electric modeling and analysis of lithium-ion battery pack for E-mobility鈥�, International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing (IJIDeM), Springer, 2024.
31. Singh, R. Kumar, A. S. Al-Sumaiti, S. Patel, N. Kumar, 鈥淩eal-time Implementation of State-Feedback Learning Framework for Bipedal Locomotion over Undulating Surfaces鈥�, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Vol 29, No 6, pp. 4538-4548, 2024.
32. Bhosale, Sujil A, R. Kumar, R. C. Bansal, 鈥淓lectric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure, Standards, Types, and its Impact on Grid: A review鈥�, Electric Power Components and Systems, T&F, Vol 16, No 1, 2024.
33. Bukya, P. Bhukya, R. Kumar, A. Mathur, N. Prasad, 鈥淔PGA-based VFF-RLS Algorithm for Insulation Detection in Electric Vehicle鈥�, World Electric Vehicle Journal, MDPI, Vol 15, Issue 4, 2024, 1-15.
34. R. S. Mahala, N. Garg, D. Saxena, R. Kumar, 鈥淯nveiling Marketing Potential: Harnessing Advanced Analytics and Machine Learning for Gold Membership Strategy Optimization in a Superstore鈥�, SN Computer Science, Vol 5, 1-17, 2024.
35. Bukya , R. M. Reddy, A. R. Doddipatla , R. Kumar, A. Mathur, M. Gupta, A. Garimella, 鈥淓lectro-thermal performance evaluation of a prismatic battery pack for an electric vehicle鈥�, High Temperature Materials and Processes, De Gruyter, Vol 43, Issue 1, 1-12, 2024.
36. Bukya, S. Malthesh R. Kumar, A Mathur, 鈥淚nsulation Detection of Electric Vehicles by Using FPGA-Based Recursive-Least-Squares Algorithm鈥�, World Electric Vehicle Journal, MDPI, Vol 15, Issue 1, 2024.
37. Bukya, S. Sharma, R. Kumar, Akhilesh Mathur, N. Gowtham, P. Kumar, “Electric vehicle grid demand Potential analysis model and regional architectural planning approach for charging using PVsyst tool”, Vision for Sustainability, Vol 21, 1-24, 2024.
38. Jacob, R. Lamba, R. Kumar, 鈥淢etaheuristic Based Single and Multi-objective Optimization of Thermoelectric Generator鈥�, Applied Thermal Engineering, Elsevier, Vol 236, 121790, 2024.
39. K. Saini, A. Alsumaiti, R. Kumar, 鈥淒ata Driven Net Load Uncertainty Quantification for Cloud Energy Storage Management in Residential Microgrid鈥�, Electric Power Systems Research, Elsevier, Vol 226, 109920, 2024.
40. Shahbaz, N. A. Amruthamol, S. Sharma, R. Kumar, 鈥淧rediction of Mechanical Characteristics of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube鈥�, Manufacturing Engineering and Materials Science, 114-126, 2024.
41. Sharma, P. Harjule, B. Agarwal, R. Kumar, 鈥淪ilicosis Detection Using Extended Transfer Learning Model鈥�, Recent Trends in Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, Springer, 2024.
42. K. Saini, A. S. Al-Sumaiti, R. Kumar, 鈥淎 Predictive Economic Analysis Under Uncertain Scenario: Evidence Theory for Small-Scale Residential Community Power Network鈥�, 6thInternational Conference on Electrical, Control and Instrumentation engineering (ICECIE-2024), Pattaya, Thailand, November 23-24, 2024.
43. Sharma, A. K. Sharma, R. Khajuria, R. Kumar, R. Lamba, S. Raju, 鈥淎 Modified Honey Badger Algorithm for Parameter Estimation of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell, 9th International Conference on Soft Computing: Theories and Applications (SoCTA- 2024), Jaipur, December 27鈥�29, 2024.
44. Khajuria, A. K. Sharma, P. Sharma, R. Kumar, R. Lamba, S. Raju, 鈥淎n Optimized Solar PV Model Parameter Extraction Technique Using Lungs Performance Based Optimization鈥�, 9th International Conference on Soft Computing: Theories and Applications (SoCTA- 2024), Jaipur, December 27鈥�29, 2024.
45. Yadav, C. S. Chundawat, S. Chaudhary, R. Kumar, 鈥淪piking Neural Network based Object Pose Alignment鈥�, 9th International Conference on Soft Computing: Theories and Applications (SoCTA -2024), Jaipur, December 27鈥�29, 2024.
46. K. Yadav, R. Kumar, A. K. Saini, P. Ragupathy, Dhiraj, 鈥淓dge Computing enabled Battery State of Charge (SOC) estimation using TinyML techniques鈥�, 11th IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES-2024), Surathkal, India, December 18-21, 2024.
47. R. S. Mahala, A. K. Yadav, D. Saxena, R. Kumar, 鈥淏i-Level Optimization Framework for Energy Management in Networked Microgrids鈥�, 11th IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES-2024), Surathkal, India, December 18-21, 2024.
48. Sharma, R. Khajuria, R. Lamba, S. Hans, R. Kumar, 鈥淒ata-Driven Performance Degradation Prediction of PEM Fuel Cell using Bi-GRU鈥�, 11th IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES-2024), Surathkal, India, December 18-21, 2024.
49. Khajuria, R. Lamba, R. Kumar, 鈥淎 Multi-Objective Approach for Energy Management of Data Center Microgrid Considering Carbon Emission and Operational Cost鈥�, 11th IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES-2024), Surathkal, India, December 18-21, 2024.
50. K. Saini, Ameena Al Sumaiti, R. Kumar, 鈥淪ustainable Microgrids: TLBO-Driven Multi Objective Optimization Modeling for Cost-Effective Emission-Embedded Solution鈥�, 11th IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES-2024), Surathkal, India, December 18-21, 2024.
51. K. Saini, Ameena Al Sumaiti, R. Kumar, 鈥淚ntegrating Data Intrusion Defense Strategy in PV Power Forecasting Framework鈥�, 11th IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES-2024), Surathkal, India, December 18-21, 2024.
52. Nagill, R. Kumar, V. K. Saini, A. Alsumaiti, 鈥淎n Improvised Benford Approach to Enhance Data Integrity and Cybersecurity for Residential Smart Meters鈥�, 2ndInternational Conference on Cyber physical Systems, Power Electronics and Electric Vehicles (ICPEEV-2024), Hyderabad, India, September 26-28, 2024.
53. Gehlot, R. Kumar 鈥淒WMS-HGR: 1D CNN for Hand Gesture Recognition on Normalized sEMG Signals with Sliding Window鈥�, 5th International Conference on Data Science and Applications (ICDSA-2024), Jaipur, India, July 17-19, 2024.
54. Nidhi, V. K. Saini, R. Kumar, A. S. Al-Sumaiti, 鈥淭ransmission Line Fault Detection and Classification using Machine Learning with Symmetrical Components and FFT Analysis鈥�, 5th International Conference on Data Science and Applications (ICDSA-2024), Jaipur, India, July 17-19, 2024.
55. R. S. Mahala, A. K. Yadav, D. Saxena, R. Kumar, 鈥淯ncertainty Estimation of PV and Load Using Deep Learning for Networked Microgrid鈥�, IEEE 4th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric transportation (SEFET-2024), Hyderabad, India, 31st July -03rd August 2024. (Best Paper Award)
56. Khajuria, R. Lamba, R. Kumar, 鈥淭owards Operational Cost Reduction of Data Center Microgrid using Metaheuristic Approach鈥�, IEEE 4th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric transportation (SEFET-2024), Hyderabad, India, 31st July -03rd August 2024. (Best Paper Award)
57. Manthan, R. Khajuria, R. Lamba, R. Kumar, 鈥淎ttention based mechanism for State-of Health estimation of Li-ion Batteries鈥�, IEEE 4th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric transportation (SEFET-2024), Hyderabad, India, 31st July -03rd August 2024.
58. K. Saini, N. Gehlot, R. Kumar, S. Verma, 鈥淓nhanced Image Classification through Customized Convolutional Spiking Neural Network鈥�, 4th IEEE Parul 欧美福利100000 International Conference on Engineering and Technology (PiCET-2024), Limbda, India, May 03-04, 2024.
59. K. Yadav, S. Sharma, R. Kumar, Dheeraj, 鈥淩estoration of Shekhawati Damaged Murals through Image Inpainting鈥�, 11th International Conference on Signal Processing and Integrated Networks (SPIN-2024), Noida, India, March 21-22, 2024.
60. Vijayvargiya, S. Paliwal, N. Gehlot, R. Kumar, K. Moran, 鈥淎I-Powered Early Detection of Musculoskeletal Disorders in Garment Industry Operators鈥�, 2ndInternational Conference on Advancements in Smart, Secure and Intelligent Computing (ASSIC-2024), Bhubaneswar, India, January 27-29, 2024.
61. Gehlot, S. Malik, A. Jena, A. Vijayvargiya, R. Kumar, 鈥淴AI-Driven sEMG Feature Analysis for Hand Gestures鈥�, 3rd International Conference on Power, Control and Computing Technologies (ICPC2T 鈥� 2024), Raipur, India, January 18-20, 2024.
62. Jena, P. Sharma, N. Gehlot, A. Vijayvargiya, R. Kumar, 鈥淓fficient Contaminant Identification in sEMG Signals using Machine Learning鈥�, 3rd International Conference on Power, Control and Computing Technologies (ICPC2T 鈥� 2024), Raipur, India, January 18-20, 2024.
63. Palati, M. Bukya, R. Kumar, A. Mathur, 鈥淎 Novel Method to Detect the Faults in an Underground Cable Using Robot鈥�, International Conference on Computation of Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning (ICCAIML – 2024), Jaipur, India, January 18-19, 2024.

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