Dr. Vijay Kumar received M.Sc. degree in Electronics from the Magadh University, India 2003. He has completed a M.Tech degree in Microwave remote sensing systems from BIT Mesra, Ranchi, in 2005, and completed PhD from IIT Bombay, Mumbai in 2011 in Microwave Remote sensing. He worked as DST Govt. of India sponsored scientist/principal Investigator at CSRE, IIT Bombay during 2009 to 2013. He has been a visiting researcher at Earth observation Group, Northern Research Institute (NORUT) during 2009-2010. Presently, Kumar is working as Associate professor at School of Electronics Engineering, VIT University, Vellore TN, India from 2013 till date.