เมื่อวันที่ 31 มกราคม 2566 กรรมการสภาสถาบันเทคโนโลยีแห่งเอเชีย (AIT) ได้มีประการแต่งตั้ง Professor Sivanappan Kumar ผู้มีความรู้ความสามารถของคณะวิศวกรรมศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยนเรศวร ให้ได้รับตำแหน่ง Emeritus Professor ซึ่งเป็นตำแหน่งอังทรงเกียรติมอบให้กับอาจารย์ประจำสถาบันที่เกษียณอายุและได้สร้างชื่อเสียงให้กับสถาบันในระดับชาติและนานาชาติอย่างต่อเนื่องทั้งทางด้านวิชาการและงานวิจัย

ในการนี้ คณะวิศวกรรมศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยนเรศวร มีความยินดีเป็นอย่างยิ่งกับการได้รับตำแหน่ง Emeritus Professor ของ Sivanappan Kumar ผู้มีความรู้ความสามารถของเรา

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Following the approval by the AIT Board of Trustees at its meeting held yesterday, 31st of January 2023, I am pleased to announce the bestowal of the title Emeritus Professor on Professor Sivanappan Kumar and Professor Chettiyappan Visvanathan. The title Emeritus Professor is conferred on AIT full Professors on retirement after continuous distinguished service. The award of the title will be conferred to those who have achieved outstanding international professional status and have made significant academic contributions to the Institute through teaching, publications and professional work. Please find a brief profile of the new awardees provided below.

Professor S. Kumar

Prof. Kumar obtained his Ph.D. from the Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse (INPT), Toulouse, France, in 1989. He joined AIT as an Assistant Professor in April 1995 and was promoted to Full Professor in January 2005. He has been serving as a Full Professor at AIT for 17 years and has had a distinguished career at the Institute for over 29 years as a faculty member. His publication record includes 101 refereed journal articles, 22 books and reports, 47 book chapters, and 70 papers in conference proceedings. He has delivered more than 48 keynote address and invited presentations in the region and around the world. Prof. Kumar has a Scopus H-index of 38 and 4,162 citations and a Google Scholar H-index of 43 and 6,973 citations to his published scholarly works.

Prof Kumar’s outstanding professional accomplishments and contributions include the recognition of being among the world's top 2% scientists based on career-wide scientific impact to respective disciplines (Energy) since 2020. At AIT, he ably discharged his functions with dedication as the Vice President for Academic Affairs (VPAA) for 6 years (April 2013 - March 2019) and as Dean of the School of Environment, Resources and Development for 4 years (2005-2009). Prof. Kumar’s strong commitment to teaching and research is evidenced by having taught 16 courses at AIT (12 of which were developed by him), implemented 100+ sponsored projects with a total project value of 9.5 million USD, supervised 23 doctoral and 125 master’s students, served as external examiner for 6 PhD (from universities in Australia, India, and Thailand), and received the Research Award in SERD, AIT on two occasions (1999 and 2000) in recognition of his outstanding research performance in the field of energy technology. He had also helped in 

the capacity building of more than 15 countries in South/Southeast/Central Asia to address climate change and promote renewable energy through Technology Needs Assessment (Global Environment Facility). Towards his professional community, Prof. Kumar consulted for several institutions and organizations such as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Economic and Social Asia Pacific (UN ESCAP), Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) etc., served as Editor of the International Energy Journal for 12 years (2009-2021) and Associate Editor of the International Journal of Energy Sector Management (IJESM), served as member International Advisory Board for Curriculum Evaluation in Energy, University of Malaysia, Malaysia (Nov. 2015), prepared policy briefs for government officials in Vietnam and Thailand on carbon societies, and was a Guest Professor (2012-2015/Visiting Professor (2006) in Tongji University, Shanghai China. The AIT Board of Trustees has approved conferment of the Emeritus 

Professor title of AIT on Prof. Kumar “for his three decades of inspirational teaching and innovative research on energy technology and management, especially in renewable energy, energy and sustainable development, and energy access, and for his exemplary and committed leadership to AIT”. Prof. Kumar’s one-page profile can be accessed via this link, http://bit.ly/40h2Nbr