From Niali to Noida

A village in Odisha, a degree in the stars, and a habit of building the instrument himself.

  1. 1998

    Niali, Odisha

    Born in a small town and raised in a rural village in Cuttack district.

  2. School

    SG High School, Bilasuni

    Studied there up to class 10.

  3. College

    BJB Junior College, Bhubaneswar

    Classes 11 and 12.

  4. 2016 to 2021

    Visva-Bharati University

    An integrated MSc at ISERC, specialising in astrophysics. Built radio telescopes, 3D printers and drones from scratch along the way.

  5. Research

    IUCAA, Pune

    Research on detecting gravitational waves with pulsars, plus internships in cosmology and materials science.

  6. 2021

    Oxikit

    Board member and lead engineer at Oxikit, an open-source oxygen concentrator built during COVID.

  7. 2023

    Noida

    Joined Bonphul Air Products as CTO, and turned a two-product range into twenty, engineered and built in India.

  8. 2026

    Telomy

    Founded Telomy, to give people one record of their health and a loop that shows what works.

Kumar in an AERION pod on the factory floor in Noida

Building things that matter

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