Arvind Kumar currently works at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Arvind does research in Metal Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing in fundamentals and applied areas, such as Light-weighing, Conformal Heat Exchanges, FGM; Solidification; Metal Joining Technology using High Energy Density Beams; Thermal Spray Coating; and Thermal Energy Storage and Recover Systems for Heat and Cold Energy.