Dayanand Kumar
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Biography
Dr. Dayanand Kumar is currently a Postdoctoral 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.
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.