Dr. Krishna Kumar

About

Krishna Kumar (SMIEEE) received his B.E. degree from Govind Ballabh Pant Engineering College, Pauri Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India, in 2006, his M.Tech. degree from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, India, in 2012, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India, in 2023. He has more than 14 years of experience spanning academia, industry, and research institutions across India, Singapore, Sweden, the Netherlands, and New Zealand.

Before joining the University of Auckland as a Research Fellow in September 2025, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Lund University, Sweden, from April 2024 to September 2025, and as a Research Fellow at the Rolls-Royce@NTU Corporate Laboratory, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, from February 2023 to March 2024. He was also a Guest Researcher at TU Delft, the Netherlands, from May to June 2026. Earlier, he served as a Senior Engineer (AE) at UJVN Ltd., India, from January 2013 to February 2023.

He has extensive experience in the design, installation, commissioning, testing, operation, and maintenance of hydro and solar power plants. His research interests include autonomous power systems, renewable energy integration, power system optimization, and data-driven approaches for sustainable energy systems.

Employment

• University of Auckland Research Fellow
  2025 - Present
• Lund University Research Fellow
  2024 - 2025
• Nanyang Technological University Research Fellow
  2023 - 2024
• UJVN Ltd Assistant Engineer
  2013 - 2023
• B.T.K. Institute of Technology, Uttarakhand, India Assistant Professor
  2012 - 2012
• Uttaranchal Institute of Technology (UIT), Dehradun, India Lecturer
  2009 - 2010
• Bharat Institute of Technology (BIT), Meerut, India Lecturer
  2007 - 2008
• Kumaon Engineering College Uttarakhand, India Lecturer
  2006 - 2007

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee PhD
  2019 - 2023
• Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology M.Tech
  2010 - 2012
• Govind Ballabh Pant Engineering College B.E.
  2002 - 2006

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (65)

• Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Faults Detection Using Current Harmonics & k-Means Clustering
  IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics 2026 DOI: 10.1109/JESTIE.2025.3609657
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• Hydrological Insights
  2026 DOI: 10.1016/C2024-0-01751-1
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• Demand response for residential appliances using multi-agent reinforcement learning with price and solar power uncertainty
  Energy Reports 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.egyr.2025.10.047
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• Blockchain technology in supply chain management
  Telematics and Informatics Reports 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.teler.2025.100204
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• Enhancing Healthcare Solutions With Machine Learning-Driven Adaptive Haptic Systems
  2025 DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3373-2307-7.ch008
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• Optimizing Energy Usage and Reducing Waste Digital Twin Applications in Industrial IoT
  2025 DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3373-2028-1.ch009
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• An Advanced and Accelerated Heuristic Strategy for the Reconfiguration of Electrical Distribution Network
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Science with Advance Power Technologies - A Future Trends, ICE2CPT 2025 2025 DOI: 10.1109/ICE2CPT66440.2025.11340111
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• Cybersecurity Challenges in the Digitization and Integration of Renewable Energy Systems: A Review
  IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management 2025 DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2025.3586557
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• Hamming Distance Method-Based Stator Inter-Turn Short Circuit Phase Detection in PMSM
  2025 IEEE International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering and Computing, ETECOM 2025 2025 DOI: 10.1109/ETECOM66111.2025.11319146
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• Kalman-Cyclisation Dominant Frequency Based PMSM Bearing Fault Detection
  2025 International Conference on Machine Intelligence and Smart Innovation, ICMISI 2025 - Proceedings 2025 DOI: 10.1109/ICMISI65108.2025.11115434
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