CV PKumar Updated
CV PKumar Updated
CV PKumar Updated
EDUCATION
2013 Ph.D., Engineering Physics,
Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan (USA)
2005 M.Tech., Laser Science and Applications,
Devi Ahilya University, Indore (India)
2003 M.S., Physics, University of Delhi, Delhi (India)
2001 B.S., Physics (Honors), University of Delhi, Delhi (India)
2018 Certificate in Fundamentals of Online Teaching, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison
EMPLOYMENT
08/2018 – Present Lecturer, MSCS, University of Wisconsin-Stout
02/2018-08/2018 Assistant Scientist, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2013-01/2018 Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2008-2012 Graduate Research Assistant, Michigan Technological University
2006-2008 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Michigan Technological University
2005-2006 Senior Project Associate, Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur, India
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Graduate Teaching Assistant,
Department of Physics, Michigan Tech. University [2006-2008]
o Instructed about 80-90 undergraduate students weekly during the Introductory Physics
Laboratories (Mechanics, Optics)
o Lead Teaching Assistant (TA) for Optics laboratory (Fall 2007)
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Responsibilities: guiding the fellow TAs in smoothly running the labs, leading weekly TA
meetings, preparing labs for experiment
o Graduate Assistant (Spring 2011)
Responsibilities: grading homework and exams for the graduate course on Classical
Mechanics
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
I. Postdoctoral Research Associate [01/2013 – Present]
Dept. of Physics, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Project: “Investigation of Low Frequency Magnetic Flux Noise in Superconducting Devices”
PI: Professor Robert McDermott
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Micro-fabrication
Metrology
Cryogenics and Ultra High Vacuum
Optics, Photonics
Experiment Design/Measurement/Analysis
AWARDS/HONORS
o 2015 Invention disclosure adjudged among the six finalists (out of 380+) for the
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) Innovation Award-2015
o 2012 Dean’s Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Fall 2012, Michigan Tech. University
o 2012 Doctoral finishing fellowship, Fall 2012, Graduate School, Michigan Tech.
University
o 2005 Best paper award (adjudged among the best seven papers) at National
Symposium on Crystal Growth of Laser Related Materials, Dec 19-20, 2005, Kalvakkam,
TN, India
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PATENT
v R. McDermott, P. Kumar, U.S. patent number US9437800 B1 (09/2016) “Systems and
methods for suppressing magnetically active surface defects in superconducting circuits”
PUBLICATIONS:
v BOOK CHAPTER
M. Levy, A. Chakravarty, P. Kumar, and X. Huang, “Magneto-Photonic Bragg
Waveguides, Waveguide Arrays and Non-reciprocal Bloch Oscillations” in
Magnetophotonics: from theory to applications, Springer Series in Material Science
Volume 178, page 135-161 (2013).