Dayanand Kumar
Dayanand Kumar is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow focusing his research on smart multifunctional optoelectronic synaptic devices.
Biography
Dr. Dayanand Kumar is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the SAMA Laboratory, KAUST. He received his M.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Varanasi, India, and his Ph.D. from National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan. During his doctoral studies, he was honored by the President of Taiwan for outstanding academic research performance. Following his Ph.D., he worked as a Principal Integration Engineer at Micron Technology, Taiwan, and subsequently held postdoctoral research positions at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He also served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan.
Research Interests
Dr. Kumar’s research focuses on emerging memory devices for in-memory sensing and computing; smart multifunctional optoelectronic synaptic devices - including memristors, transistors, and capacitors - for bionic machine vision and physiological signal processing applications.
Awards and Distinctions
- Outstanding Academic Research Performance, President of Taiwan, 2016
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
- Electronics, National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan, 2018
- Master of Technology (M.Tech.)
- Solid State Technology, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) Varanasi (IIT-BHU), India, 2012