PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Abhinav Kumar

Abhinav Kumar is a professor at IIT Hyderabad whose research links machine learning with wireless communications and domain adaptation. He completed a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering at IIT Delhi in 2013 and served as a postdoctoral fellow at Waterloo from December 2013 to November 2014. At IIT Hyderabad, he became an assistant professor in November 2014, an associate professor in January 2020, and a professor in June 2024. In 2025, he coauthored a multi-source domain adaptation paper and took part in a panel on AI research and commercialization. At WACV in March 2026, he coauthored a paper about domain gaps in small multimodal models.

Works
171
Citations
2,236
h-index
25
Links
Website

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 22 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2013

    A PhD at IIT Delhi

    He completes a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering at IIT Delhi in 2013.

  2. December 2013–November 2014

    A Waterloo postdoc

    From December 2013 to November 2014, he serves as a postdoctoral fellow in the University of Waterloo’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

  3. November 2014–January 2020

    Assistant professor at IIT Hyderabad

    In November 2014, he joins IIT Hyderabad’s Department of Electrical Engineering as an assistant professor.

  4. January 2020–June 2024

    Associate professor at IIT Hyderabad

    In January 2020, he becomes an associate professor and continues in IIT Hyderabad’s Department of Electrical Engineering through June 2024.

  5. 2025

    An AI research panel

    At IIT Hyderabad’s PIWOT satellite visit in 2025, he takes part in panel discussions on AI research and commercialization.

  6. 2025

    Multi-source domain adaptation

    In 2025, he coauthors “Leveraging Mixture Alignment for Multi-Source Domain Adaptation” with Aveen Dayal, Shrusti S., Linga Reddy Cenkeramaddi, and C. Krishna Mohan for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.

  7. March 2026

    Small multimodal models

    At WACV in March 2026, he coauthors “Bridging the Domain Gap in Small Multimodal Models: A Dual-level Alignment Perspective” with Aveen Dayal, Peketi Divya, Nidhi Tiwari, Linga Reddy Cenkeramaddi, and C Krishna Mohan.

  8. Since June 2024

    Professor at IIT Hyderabad

    He is a professor of Electrical Engineering at IIT Hyderabad, a role he starts in June 2024. He holds affiliated faculty appointments in Artificial Intelligence and Engineering Science, with research interests in wireless communications and machine learning.

Career

  1. Since 2014Indian Institute of Technology HyderabadAssistant professor, Associate professor
  2. 2013–2014University of WaterlooPostdoctoral fellow

Education

  1. IIT DelhiPh.D. in electrical and computer engineering

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

  1. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  2. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.
  3. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labsIncludes University of Waterloo. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, recent citations, dual appointments and job moves across 2,420 university researchers and 308 frontier-lab researchers.
  4. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes IIT Delhi. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.

Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. RIS-assisted NOMA communication under phase and SIC imperfections | CNI cni.iisc.ac.in. Checked 22 October 2026.
  2. Catherine P. Rosenberg | Electrical and Computer Engineering | University of Waterloo ece.uwaterloo.ca. Checked 22 October 2026.
  3. IIT Hyderabad | Home people.iith.ac.in. Checked 22 October 2026.
  4. PIWOT 2025: IIT Hyderabad hosts PanIIT World of Technology satellite site visit news.careers360.com. Checked 22 October 2026.
  5. Publications - Autonomous and Cyber-Physical Systems (ACPS) Research Group acps.uia.no. Checked 22 October 2026.
  6. WACV 2026 Open Access Repository openaccess.thecvf.com. Checked 22 October 2026.
  7. Abhinav Kumar | IIT Hyderabad iith.ac.in. Checked 22 October 2026.