Dr. Amit Kumar Thakur is currently associated with Lovely Professional University as Associate Professor with more than seventeen years of experience in academics and research. His area of expertise includes Renewable energy technologies, Thermal energy, Robotics and Internet of Things. He has organized and conducted a number of workshops, summer internships and expert lectures for students as well as faculty. He has published around Twenty-four research papers in referred journals/conferences. He is the Life member of The Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), faculty member of Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), life member of The Aeronautical Society of India (AMeASI). He is the editorial board member and reviewer of various reputed journals. He was the Research sub-coordinator for ADRDE, DRDO in the project of design and development of the deceleration system for Space capsule recovery experiment (SRE). He has five patents to his name.