Prof. Praveen Kumar did his BTech from REC Hamirpur (now NIT Hamirpur) in electrical engineering, MTech from IIT Delhi in Energy Studies, and Ph.D. from TU Delft with a specialization in electrical machine design. Earlier, he was Team Leader of the Hybrid Systems group in Drive Trains Innovation BV, The Netherlands; Co-Founder of elmoCAD GmbH, Germany; Development Engineer at Trimeric GmbH, Germany and Durr AG, Germany. Prof. Kumar’s research activities are in optimizing electrical motors and drives; state-of-the-art algorithm development for multi-objective optimization and simulation, and design of electrical motors and actuators using Finite Element Methods. In 2009 he established the e-mobility lab at IIT Guwahati. Recently he launched an MS by Research Programme in e-mobility, the first of its kind in India. Prof. Kumar also heads the intellectual property rights cell of IIT Guwahati and is an advocate of the importance of IPR in the new economy.