Vijay Kumar

About

VIJAY KUMAR is the Nemirovsky Family Dean of Penn Engineering with appointments in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Computer and Information Science, and Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. His group works on creating autonomous ground and aerial robots, designing bio-inspired algorithms for collective behaviors, and on robot swarms.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine Learning
• Pathology
• Medicine
• Data science
• Algorithm
• Radiology

Selected publications

• Vision Transformers for End-to-End Vision-Based Quadrotor Obstacle Avoidance

  2025-05-19 · 9 citations

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  We demonstrate the capabilities of an attentionbased end-to-end approach for high-speed vision-based quadrotor obstacle avoidance in dense, cluttered environments, with comparison to various state-of-the-art learning architectures. Quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have tremendous maneuverability when flown fast; however, as flight speed increases, traditional model-based approaches to navigation via independent perception, mapping, planning, and control modules breaks down due to increa…

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• Observations on the Effect of Artificial Lights on Foraging Behaviour of Greater Shot-Nosed Fruit Bat, <i>Cynopterus sphinx</i> (Vahl, 1797) in Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University Campus, Lucknow, India

  Records of the Zoological Survey of India · 2025-02-05 · 2 citations

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  Excess illumination from artificial lighting poses a serious hazard to nocturnal species, particularly flying nocturnal creatures. Bats possess excellent active flight with highly adapted limbs. All bat species are entirely nocturnal and have quite distinct feeding patterns and foraging strategies. Cynopterus sphinx is a medium-sized bat that feeds on ripe fruits, leaves, and floral parts available in foraging grounds on a variety of plant species and plays a significant role in pollination and…

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• Machine learning-driven strategies for optimal design of heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) filter media

  Separation and Purification Technology · 2025-08-31 · 1 citations

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  • ML models predicted the filtration efficiency and pressure drop of HVAC filter media. • GPR outperforms ANN and DT, achieving highest R 2 and lowest RMSE for small datasets. • GPR predicted filtration efficiency at Most Penetrating Particle Size (∼300 nm) • Robustness of GPR predictions confirmed via validation with commercial HVAC filters. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the critical need to improve indoor air quality (IAQ) through efficient air filtration, especially in heating, ventil…

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• “Fraud Detection in Financial Transactions Using Pyspark on Databricks”

  INTERANTIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT · 2025-06-11

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  Abstract - In the era of digital finance, detecting fraudulent transactions is a major concern for financial institutions. Fraudulent activity not only results in monetary losses but also erodes customer trust. This project proposes a scalable and efficient system for fraud detection in financial transactions using PySpark on the Databricks platform. The core idea is to leverage the power of distributed data processing with PySpark to train machine learning model capable of identifying potential…

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• Applications of MCDM Aggregation Operator in the Selection of Suitable Site for the Manufacturing Plant

  Apple Academic Press eBooks · 2025-09-17

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  The development of multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques helps in the decision-making process and addresses many real-life problems. In this chapter, an intuitionistic fuzzy-based MCDM decision-making technique has been proposed for the selection of a suitable site for a manufacturing plant. Dynamic intuitionistic fuzzy weighted averaging operator has been used for decision-making under an intuitionistic fuzzy environment. The method is demonstrated by the help of a case study, compris…

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Recent grants

• CPS: Frontier: Collaborative Research: BioCPS for Engineering Living Cells

  NSF · $1.4M · 2015–2020

• Grasp and Manipulation Planning in the Presence of Dynamics and Uncertainty

  NSF · $294k · 2004–2009

• Collaborative Research: Understanding Climate Change: A Data Driven Approach

  NSF · $6.7M · 2010–2018

Frequent coauthors

• Pradeep Das

  National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases

  68 shared

• Dilbag Singh

  44 shared

• Amit Rawal

  Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

  37 shared

• Dinesh Kumar

  Delhi Technological University

  31 shared

• Shreekant Kesari

  Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences

  31 shared

• Daniel Ekwall

  Hanken School of Economics

  29 shared

• Ludovic Koehl

  Laboratoire Génie et Matériaux Textiles

  28 shared

• Xianyi Zeng

  École Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Industries Textiles

  28 shared

Labs

• Vijay Kumar LabPI

Education

• Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering

  University of California, Berkeley

  1990

• M.S., Mechanical Engineering

  University of California, Berkeley

  1986

• B.S., Mechanical Engineering

  University of California, Berkeley

  1984

Awards & honors

• Fellow of ASME
• Fellow of IEEE
• Elected to the National Academy of Engineering
• Elected to the American Philosophical Society
• Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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