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Anil Kumar

Associate Professor

Numerical Analysis, Optimal Control Theory
Department of Mathematics, BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa Campus, Zuarinagar, South Goa, Goa-403726

Memberships:

  • Life member of Ramanujan Mathematical Society (RMS).
  • Life Member of the Indian Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ISIAM).
  • Life Member of the Indian Association for Computer Science and Discrete Mathematics.
  • Member of American Mathematical Society.
  • Member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).

Work Experience:

  • Worked as a Teaching Assistant for B. Tech. at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay from 2000 to 2004 for Basic Calculus, Advanced Calculus, Linear Algebra, Computational Methods in Linear Algebra, Ordinary Differential Equations, and System of Differential Equations.
  • Visited Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore under IISc-TIFR Short Term Visitors Program from June 01, 2003, to June 18, 2003, and worked with Prof. A. K. Nandkumaran on Optimal control problems involving partial differential equations.
  • Worked as a Research Associate in the project WebOPT (Asia IT & C contract ASI/B7-301/97/0126-73). It was a joint project with Brunel University (U.K.). This project aimed to develop an optimization environment and offer it as an Application Service provider (ASP) solution.

  • Visited the Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, under the Indo-French Centre for Applied Mathematics (IFCAM) Visitors Program during the period from May 24, 2014, to June 24, 2014, and worked with Prof. A. K. Nandkumaran and worked on Optimal control of the velocity term in a Kirchhoff plate equation with multiplicative control.

  • Visited School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan NSW 2308 Australia, from May 21 to July 22, 2016, under the University Immersion program. I worked with Dr. Bishnu Prasad Lamichhane on the numerical computation of optimal control problems involving partial differential equations.

  • Worked as a Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics, BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa Campus, Goa, India, from July 2006 to December 2006.

  • Worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics, BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa Campus, Goa, India, from December 2006 to May 2021.

  • Working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics, BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa Campus, Goa, India, from June 2021 to till date. Courses Taught/Handled in BITS-Pilani Goa Campus: Numerical Analysis, Mathematics-I (Calculus), Mathematics-II (Linear Algebra and Complex Analysis), Mathematics-III (Ordinary Differential Equation and Partial Differential Equations), Optimization, Functional Analysis, Ordinary Differential Equations (advanced level), Numerical Solutions of Ordinary Differential Equations, Nonlinear Optimization, and Partial Differential Equations (advanced level).

Administrative Experience:

  • Worked as an internet and intranet website management coordinator for the BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa campus. 

  • Worked as a Warden of a hostel in BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa campus from January 2009 to December 2013.

  • Worked as a Member of the Institute Disciplinary Committee from July 19, 2018 to July 18, 2019.

  • Member of the Standing Committee for Student’s Discipline from October 5, 2020, to October 4, 2021.

  • Member of Placement Faculty Advisory Council (PFAC) from 2018 to 2022.

  • Worked as a Convener of the Department Research Committee (DRC) till November 27, 2017 and then from June 2022 to June 2024.

  • Worked as a Member of the Department Research Committee (DRC) from November 2017 to December 2019 and from June 2024 to till date.

  • Member of Department Steering Committee. 

  • Member of the Department Event Management Committee.

  • Member of Cross Campus Departmental Committee for Academics.