D E V S Kiran Kumar, CV

D E V S Kiran Kumar Ph: +91 9515010377

Faculty (Assistant Professor), Email: kirankumar.devs@gmail.com
National Institute of Design, https://www.linkedin.com/in/devs-kiran-kumar-a015271b
Andhra Pradesh, India https://www.researchgate.net/profile/D-E-V-S-Kiran-Kumar

Summary
Having a distinct set of academic qualifications (in design, and engineering) and professional interest for sustainable
performance, I acquire over 6+ years of research (excluding PhD) and industry experience. I am specialized in the
areas of research and prototyping technological solutions for a comfortable and productive workspace and lifestyle.

Research Interests: Interdisciplinary aspects of material processes and building technologies, Responsive design of
the environment: from micro scale (material) to macro scale (urban environment), State-of-the-art and futuristic
façade technologies, Zero carbon building for frugal living practices, Building Information Modeling (BIM), 3D printing
of cement concrete, Sustainable design, engineering, technology and policy.

Education
2017-2021 Doctor of Philosophy Nanyang Technological University,
(Mechanical Engineering) Singapore, School of Mechanical and
Aerospace engineering
2009- 2011 Master of Technology in Civil Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Madras,
(Building Technology and Construction Department of Civil Engineering, Chennai
Management)
2003- 2008 Bachelor of Architecture - Building design and Andhra University, College of Engineering,
construction Visakhapatnam, India

Experience
2022-Present Faculty in Industrial Design, National Institute of Design, Andhra Pradesh, India

2022-Present Visiting Faculty, IIT Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India (CE4103- Functional design of buildings)

2016-2022 PhD Researcher, Post-doctoral Research Fellow

Energy Research Institute @NTU, Smart and Sustainable Building Technology Group, Nanyang
Technology University, Singapore

2019-2020 Visiting Researcher

CNRS Laboratory of Engineering Sciences for the Environment, La Rochelle University, France

2011- 2016 Research Associate

The Energy and Resources Institute, India–Centre for Research on Sustainable Building Science

2009-2011 Teaching Assistant (CE5030 Functional Efficiency of Buildings, CE5070 Building Sciences Lab,
CE2050 Building Drawing)
Building Technology and Construction Management, Indian Institute of Technology Madras

2008 -2009 Junior Sustainability Analyst, Intern

International Institute of Information Technology, India- Building Science Research Centre

Skills and Certifications

• Leadership in Energy and Environment Design (LEED) Accredited Professional
• WELL Building Standard Accredited Professional (WELL AP)
• “The Future of Urban Society- Science, Technology-(Prototyping Policy Practice),” program by Singapore-
ETH Center for Global Environmental Sustainability (SEC), 2019
• “Designing for greater efficiency” by the International Finance Corporation (IFC)
• “University Teaching for Teaching Assistants” certificate by Teaching, Learning Pedagogy Division, NTU
• International Energy Agency (IEA)’s certificate of training on Energy Efficiency indicators
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• Google’s Certificate of training for “Crash course on Python”
• One Click LCA’s summer school on Building Life cycle carbon analysis
• “Sustainable Leadership and Strategy Innovation” by Nanyang Technopreneurship Center
• Registered Architect by the Council of Architecture, India
• “The Youth Support Youth” program on peer mentoring by the Health Promotion Board of Singapore

Research Projects
• Realtime Virtual Audits for Demand Side Management
Sponsor: Energy Management Authority, Singapore, Role: Researcher
• Computational simulations to optimize UHI effect and improve building energy efficiency
Sponsor: Northumbria University, New Castle UK, Role: External Consultant
• “Cool Singapore” - land and livability national innovation challenge
Sponsor: National Research Foundation (NRF), Singapore: Role: Researcher; PhD thesis
• Test Bedding Research for Innovative Technologies in SkyLab
Sponsor: Building and Construction Authority (BCA), Singapore; Role: Researcher
• Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) of construction materials
Sponsor: United Nations Environment Program (UNEP); Role: Co-Principal Investigator
• Formaldehyde Monitoring at Office environments in Tropical Climates
Sponsor: Saint Gobain Research India; Role: Principal Investigator
• Thermal Performance of Mineral based and PCM Roofing Materials
Sponsor: Ishaan Industries & Japeva Engineering Pvt. Ltd, India; Role: Principal Investigator
• Green building Initiatives for Affordable housing
Sponsor: Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO), India; Role: Researcher
• Affordable Sustainable Habitat for different climates of India
Sponsor: Ingersoll Rand Engineering & Technology Centre, India; Role: Principal Investigator
• Green building consultancy services for ITC Guntur master plan and re-development
Sponsor: ITC Limited, India; Role: Principal Investigator
• Sustainable Urban Development- Minimising UHI Effect and Imperviousness Factor
Sponsor: South Asian Network of Economic Research Institutes; Role: Principal Investigator
• Studies on Thermal, Visual Comfort Characteristics and Façade Performance in Office Buildings
Sponsor: Larsen and Tubro-ECC Division, India; Master’s Thesis

Awards and Credentials

• 99.46 percentile in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE 2009)
• 2017 Minister’s award (team) from Ministry of National Development, Singapore
• “Roll of Honour” Awardee - The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) 2015-16
• Society of Building Science Educators (SBSE) Student Retreat scholarship 2022
• Finalist: Pitch to Policy India, 2021- A building policy intervention competition held by Global Building
Performance Network (GBPN)
• Peer reviewer: Indoor & Built Environment, Geophysical research & MDPI Applied Physics
• Finalist: International competition on designing external and movable shading system (EMSYS) organized by
the Indo-Swiss Building Energy Efficiency Program (BEEP), 2016
• Young Engineers ASHRAE (YEA) Scholarship 2014
• International Scientific Committee member for Conference on Advances in Building Sciences - Indian
Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai on 11-16 February 2013
• Organising member for Regional Green Building Conferences in Bangalore 2011-2015
• Finalist: Transsolar Fellowship 2013
• Mentor and Jury member for Inter University Sustainability Challenge (IUSC) conducted by Green Add+
under University of Cambridge’s program on sustainability leadership during October 2011
• Winner: Renewable Energy System Design competition by IITM Energy Forum, 2010
• Elected Secretary for AUCE Unit for National Association of Students of Architecture, 2005-2008
• Vignan Prathibha Puraskar Award 2006 by Andhra University College of Engineering (AUCE)

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Selected Publications
Journals

• Azad, A. S., Kumar, D. E. V. S. K., Wan, M. P., Kaushik, S., and Rakshit, D. (2022). "Energy savings of an optimised daylight-
pipe system with single and dual reflectors in tropical climates of India." ASME Journal of Solar Energy Engineering.
doi.org/10.1115/1.4054470 (IF: 2.4).
• Zingre, K. T., Kumar, D. E. V. S. K., Wan, M.P., & Chao, C. Y. H. (2021). Effective R-value approach to comprehend the
essence of integrated opaque passive substrate properties, Journal of Building Engineering, 44,102865
doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2021.102865 (IF: 7.14, Cited: 1).
• Zingre, K. T., Kumar, D. E. V. S. K., & Wan, M.P. (2020). Analysing the Effect of Substrate Properties on Building Envelope
Thermal Performance in Various Climates. Energies, 13,19: 5119 doi.org/10.3390/en13195119 (IF: 3, Cited: 2).
• Mandi, Z., Long Y. P., Xiaoqin, Z., Kumar, D. E. V. S. K., Ng, B. F., & Wan, M. P. (2020). Sensitivity Study of WRF Physical
Schemes and Evaluation of Cool Coating Effects in Singapore by WRF‐UCM simulations. Journal of Geophysical Research-
Atmospheres, 125, e2019JD031191 doi.org/10.1029/2019JD031191 (IF: 5.22, Cited: 1).
• Babu, S., Zhou, J., Wan, M. P., Lamano, A. S., Sarvaiya, J. N., Zhang, Z., Kumar, D. E. V. S. K., Gao, C. P., Valliappan, S., Goh,
A., & Seoh, A., (2019). Investigation of an integrated automated blinds and dimmable lighting system for tropical climate
in a rotatable testbed facility. Energy and Buildings, 183, 356-376doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2018.11.007 (IF: 7.2, Cited: 22).
• Kumar, D. E. V. S. K., Latha, J. T., Suresh, R., & Arunvel, T. (2019). Formaldehyde monitoring in office buildings located in
tropical climates of India. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, doi:10.1088/1757-
899X/609/4/042006 (IF: 0.5, Cited: 1).
• Kumar, D. E. V. S. K., Wan, M.P., Mandi, Z., Long Y. P., & Ng, B. F. (2019). Impact of solar reflectance of wall and road on
outdoor thermal comfort - experimental study in a street canyon setup. MATEC Web of Conferences., 282,
doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201928202010 (IF: 0.5, Cited: 1).
• Azad, A. S., Rakshit, D., Wan, M.P., Babu, S., Sarvaiya, J. N., Kumar, D. E. V. S. K., Zhang, Z., Lamano, A. S., Krishnasayee, K.,
Gao, C. P., Valliappan, S., Goh, A., & Seoh, A. (2018). Evaluation of thermal comfort criteria of an active chilled beam system
in tropical climate: A comparative study. Building and Environment, 145, 196-212 doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2018.09.025
(IF: 7.1, Cited: 20).
• Kumar, D. E. V. S. K., & Puranik, S. (2017) Thermal Performance Evaluation of a Mineral based Cement tile as Roofing
Material. Journal of Indoor and Built Environment, 26(3):409-421 doi.org/10.1177/1420326X15622978 (IF: 3.1, Cited: 4).

International Conference

• A.S. Lamano, S. Yang, M.P. Wan, M. Zhou, J. Zhou, S. Babu, J.N. Sarvaiya, Z. Zhang, Kumar, D. E. V. S. K., & K.
Krishnasayee, (2018) Energy Performance of an Integrated Automated Blinds and Dimmable Lighting System with
Model-Predictive Control (MPC). Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Building Energy, Environment COBEE,
Feb 5-9, 2018, Melbourne, Australia (Cited: 3).
• Sahoo, K., Kumar, D. E. V. S. K., & Sastry, M. (2016). Optimization of window design in a high-rise residential township
to achieve GRIHA requirements for thermal and visual comfort, International Journal of Research in Engineering and
Technology, 05(20), 100-105.
• Kumar, D. E. V. S. K., Vij A., & Singh, M. (2015). Heat Island Tool for Evaluating Site level developments – Experience of
developing heat island calculator for GRIHA LD- Proceedings of 14th IBPSA International Buildings Simulation
Conference, December 7-9, 2015, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India (Cited: 1).
• Kumar, D. E. V. S. K., & Sastry, M. (2013). Predicting Improved Microclimate with Reflective Roofs and Its Impact on
Cooling Loads Of A Typical Commercial Building In Bengaluru, India. Proceedings of International Conference CISBAT
2013 - September 4-6, 2013 – EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• Namburu, H. K. V., & Kumar, D. E. V. S. K. (2013) Daylighting in Schools: Influencing the health and productivity of
children, Investigating with current British standards. Proceedings of International Conference on Advances in Building
Sciences; 11-16 February 2013, IIT Madras, Chennai, India.
• Kumar, D. E. V. S. K., Alur, R., Elangovan, R., (2011). Energy Savings and Occupant comfort studies for a conditioned
open- plan office building, Proceedings of 24th International Conference ECOS. July 4-7, 2011; Novi Sad, Serbia.

Research Funding
• Habitat Model for Efficiency and Comfort Sponsor: Department of Science and Value: USD 103,000
TMD/CERI/BEE/2016 /045 (2016-2020) Technology, India, Role: Co-PI
• Startup research: Sustainable Sponsor: United Nations Value: USD 22,600
Consumption and Production of Environment Program,
Construction Materials & Technologies Role: Co-PI
(2015-2016)
• Studies on Indoor Air Quality- Monitoring Sponsor: Saint Gobain Research Value: USD 13,500
of formaldehyde in office environments in India
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tropical climates (2014-2016) Role: PI
• Thermal Performance Evaluation of Sponsor: Ishaan Industries, Japeva Value: USD 10,600
Mineral Based cement tile and PCMs Engineering Pvt Ltd, India
(2014-2015) Role: PI
• Affordable and Sustainable Habitat Sponsor: Ingersoll Rand Engineering Value: USD 11,300
prototype for different climates in India and Technology Centre, India
(2013-2014) Role: PI
• Green building consultancy services for Sponsor: ITC Limited, India Value: USD 30,500
ITC Guntur master plan and re- Role: PI
development (2012-2016)
• Sustainable Urban Development: Sponsor: South Asian Network for Value: USD 11,500
Reducing Urban Heat Island and Economic Research Institutes,
Imperviousness factor (2011-2012) Bangladesh, Role: PI

Teaching and Mentoring

• Oct 2022 Invited lecture, Faculty Development Program (FDP): SRM University,
Chennai
• Aug-Nov22 Visiting Faculty, Civil Engineering, IIT Tirupati (Course: CE4103- Functional
design of buildings)
• Feb 2022 Invited Keynote lecture for Faculty Development Program (FDP) Organized
by, Dept. of Civil Engineering, NIT Warangal
• Nov 2021 Guest Lecture for MTech students, Course: IC625- Building and Infrastructure
systems and automation, NIT, Trichy.
• 2013-2021 Advisor for over 15 final year undergraduate projects in architecture, civil &
mechanical engineering disciplines, both in India and Singapore
• Dec 2016 Faculty for short term training of International Baccalaureate (IB) students
visiting Energy Research Institute @NTU, Singapore
• Jan 2016 Invited faculty for the Short-Term Training Program (STTP) for teaching staff
at College of Engineering, Trivandrum, India
• Apr 2015 & Mar 2016 Invited Lecture for master’s students at School of Planning and Architecture
(SPA), Vijayawada on Designing Comfortable Buildings- A building
simulation Approach
• Feb2015 Faculty for revision crash course for GATE 2015 (AR) for DQ labs, India

• Mar 2013, Mar & Dec 2014 Faculty for lecture series on green buildings at six affiliated colleges of Anna
University on energy and water efficiency aspects in green buildings
• Oct 2011, Feb 2012 & Jul Invited lectures for undergraduate students at alma matter, Andhra
2015 University, IUSC participants at IIT Madras during Shastra 2011

Memberships and Associations

Associate Member American Society of Heating and Refrigeration Engineers (ASHRAE)
Student Member Society of Building Science Educators (SBSE)
Member International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA)
Member International Association for Urban Climate (IAUC)
Member International Association of Building Physics (IABP)
Member International Initiative for a Sustainable Built Environment(iiSBE)
Member Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation & Energy Conservation Association (IAQVEC)

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