Senthil C KumarDr. Senthil C. Kumar has over 28 years of research experience at the Indian Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) and is presently Head of Risk Assessment and GIS section of AERB-Safety Research Institute at Kalpakkam. His areas of specialization incude: Reliability Engineering, Risk Assessment studies, Probabilistic Safety Assessment, Software reliability, Seismic Safety, Statistical analysis, etc. Dr. Kumar was involved in the Level-1 probabilistic safety assessment of Prototype Fast Breeder reactor, specifically in the reliability analysis of shutdown system, decay heat removal system, power supply system and in Passive system reliability analysis. He has significantly contributed to the seismic re-evaluation of Fast Breeder Test Reactor at Kalpakkam. His post-doctoral study is in the area of Software reliability for computer-based systems in safety critical operations, real-time scheduling for adaptive fault tolerance in multiprocessor systems, software testing, fault injection and mutation studies.

After his Ph.D. in Reliability in Anna University in 2005, Dr. Kumar did his post-doctoral research in Sweden in 2009-10. He has guided 5 Ph.D. students, two MS students and several research fellows. He is a reviewer of journal articles in Elsevier publications and has authored / co-authored more than 26 international peer-reviewed journal publications and several national publications. Read More Read Less