Dr. Abhishek Kumar is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University (ZJU), China. He also served as an Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Yupia, India from 2012-2014. His research includes Sustainable Rural Electrification Systems, Microgrids, Power Electronics & applications in Renewable Energy Systems, Optimization and application of Decision Analysis in Energy Planning, Smart Grids and E-mobility solutions, State of the art algorithm development for Power & Energy Applications, and more. He was awarded TEQIP India Government Master Scholarship in 2010 and Chinese Government Scholarship for Doctoral Degree study at Zhejiang University in 2014 respectively. He acquired special First Category Merit-based Funding from Zhejiang Provincial Government under Provincial Postdoctoral Advance Program in 2020. He has contributed as a role of Outstanding Reviewer for many prestigious journals and also as a Review Editor of Frontiers in Sustainability.