Dr. Lov Kumar is currently working as Assistant professor in the Department of Computer Engineering , NIT Kurukshetra . He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from NIT Rourkela, under the supervision of Prof. S. K. Rath. His current research interests are in the area of Mining Software Repositories, Software Analytics, and Social Media Analytics. His thesis is titled “Predicting Software Quality Parameters using Artificial Intelligence Techniques and Source Code Metrics”. He was a Faculty Member (at Thapar University) from Aug 2017 to Dec 2017 and BITS Pilani from Jan 2018 to Jan 2023. He has delivered over 60 invited talks, over 100 international refereed publications in international conferences and journals, and four published book chapter to his credit.  He has won several other awards including the Young Scientist Award, Best Researcher Award, and best paper Award. He has a broad range of interests and hobbies. He loves to play cricket, read books, play chess, and solve Sudoku puzzles. 

Research Area: Software Engineering, Machine Learning, Mining Software Repositories, Software Analytics, and Social Media Analytics

Teaching Experience

• Jan 2023-  Till Date:    Assistant Professor Gr-1, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra                                     Subjects Taught:  Database Management System, Data Mining
• Jan 2018- Jan 2023:    Assistant Professor, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani – Hyderabad                       Subjects Taught:  Database Management System, Data Mining, Secure Software Engineering, Database Security, Computer Programming, Machine Learning, Advance Data Mining 
• Aug 2017- Dec 2017: Lecturer, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala                                              Subjects Taught: Discrete Mathematics, C Lab 

Sponsored Projects 

1. Funding Agency:  Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), SERB International Research Experience (SIRE) (Duration: 2 Months, Fund: 6.47 Lakhs)                                                                                                                       Chief Investigator: Dr. Lov Kumar                                                                                                                                Project Title: Fit-to-All Anti-Malware Environment (FAAME): Universal Android Tool to Identify, Detect and Isolate Malware
2. Funding Agency: TestAIng Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (Duration: 2021-2023, Fund: 8.8 Lakhs)                                                  Chief Investigator: Dr. Lov Kumar                                                                                                                                    Project Title: Testing Deep-Learning Modela
3. Funding Agency: Research Initiation Grant, Bits-Pilani Hyderabad (Duration: 2018-2020, Fund: 2Lakhs)                  Chief Investigator: Dr. Lov Kumar                                                                                                                                          Project Title: How Should I Detect and Fix Code Smell? – Investigating Source Code, and Text Analytic Based Approaches to Find Structural Design Problems in Software Systems
4. Funding Agency: TestAIng Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (Duration: 2020-2021, Fund: 3.6 Lakhs)                                                  Chief Investigator: Dr. Lov Kumar                                                                                                                                          Project Title: Testing Artificial Intelligence systems
5. Funding Agency: Nucleus Software (Duration: 2021–2022, Fund: 2.5 Lakhs per Sem)                                                    Project Title: Software Fault Prediction

Paper Publication:https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=Lk-NWEYAAAAJ&hl=en 

• International Journals                    25 (SCI: 9, SCOPUS (11)) 
• International Conferences             64 (CORE: 39, ISEC (10), INDICON (4))
• International Workshops               5 
• Book Chapter                                  4

Awards: 

• Best Paper Award for my Research paper presented at 22nd International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA-2022), University of Malaga, Spain (Accepted) (CORE C). 
• Best Industry Cooperation Award for my Research paper presented at 16th Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems (FedCSIS 2021) (CORE B). 
• Received Best Young Researcher Award (Male) (Below 40 years) for outstanding research International Academic and Research Excellence Awards (IARE-2019). 
• Received Young Scientist Award for outstanding research by IOSRD. • Received Best Researcher Award for outstanding research for the year 2018, by IOSRD. 
• 1st prize award for my Research paper presented at 3rd IEEE Uttar Pradesh Section International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Electronics (UPCON 2016), 2016, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) Varanasi, India. 
• 3rd prize for Robotics, on “Clegance-09” in the inter college level techno-fest held at C.V. Raman College of Engineering, Bhubaneswar. 
• Secured 99.01 percentile with 611 GATE score in GATE 2012. 
• Rewarded as a student volunteer at APSEC 2015, New Delhi. 
• Awarded “EX” in test conducted during Faculty development program on “Data Structures and Algorithms” organized by E&ICT Academy and Department of Computer Science & Engineering at National Institute of Technology (NIT) Warangal. 

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