Pramod Kumar is working as a Team Assistant with the IHDS project and NDIC.
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Arunava Majumdar
Arunava Majumdar is a materials scientist, engineer, and the inaugural dean of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, Stanford University. He was nominated for the position of Under Secretary of Energy in the USA between 30 November 2011, and 15 May 2012. Previously, he was the Director of the Environmental Energy Technologies Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), University of California, Berkeley, where he also served as Deputy Director of LBNL and as Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He was appointed as the first director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) in September 2009, and was one of the science envoys of the US in 2014. Earlier, he has served as Vice President for Energy at Google, and as the Jay Precourt Professor at Stanford University. He was also a member of the engineering and computer science jury for the Infosys Prize from 2012 to 2016.
He received his PhD from University of California, Berkeley, and a BTech from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. His scientific work focuses on thermoelectric materials, heat and mass transfer, thermal management, and waste heat recovery. He has published several hundred papers, patents, and conference proceedings.
Kajal Kumari
Kajal Kumari is a part-time Research Associate in the Centre for Gender and Macroeconomy at NCAER. Her research focuses on crime, flood risk, health, gender, and development macroeconomics, with particular interest in the intersection of environmental and socio-economic outcomes. She has previously worked as a Research Intern at NCAER, and prior to that, as a Research Consultant at DAI Research and Advisory Services, Bihar, and as Research Assistant at Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, Jharkhand.
She holds a Master’s degree in Energy Economics from Banaras Hindu University (BHU), and is currently pursuing a second Master’s in Economics at Shiv Nadar University.
Saloni
Saloni is associated with the Centre for Economic Growth (CEG) at the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER). She brings professional experience in university administration and institutional operations, with a background in academic coordination, programme management, documentation, and stakeholder engagement.
At CEG, she contributes to ongoing research projects through research support, project coordination, and operational support. Her experience in academic and institutional settings, complemented by strong organisational, coordination, and communication skills, enables her to contribute effectively to the implementation of research projects and engagement with diverse stakeholders. She contributes to the Centre’s research and policy-oriented initiatives focused on state-level economic growth.”
Dev Singh Thakur
Dev Singh Thakur is Fellow–Traffic Engineering, Road Safety, and Mobility in the Centre for Economics of Transport, Mobility and Logistics at NCAER.
He is a traffic and transportation engineer with extensive experience in traffic engineering and studies, mobility research and analysis, AI-driven mobility analytics, road safety audits, crash and blackspot investigations, and transportation engineering.
Prior to joining NCAER, he worked with Transoft Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (Australia) as Project Engineer on a remote basis, where he was engaged in traffic engineering and transportation analysis, real-time traffic monitoring, safety analysis, and computer vision-based mobility solutions. Earlier, he worked with IHUB-Data Foundation, IIIT Hyderabad, where he was involved in Project iRASTE, an AI-based road safety initiative, focusing on Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), driver monitoring systems, road safety, and mobility analytics.
He holds an MTech in Transportation Engineering from NIT Kurukshetra and a BE in Civil Engineering. He is also pursuing a PhD (Part time) in Traffic Engineering and Safety from the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Central Road Research Institute (CSIR-CRRI), New Delhi.