Dr. Anil Kumar did his doctoral degree on Optimal Control Problems Involving Parabolic Differential and Parabolic Integro-Differential Equations from Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India under the supervision of Prof. Mohan C. Joshi and Prof. Amiya K. Pani. He joined Department of Mathematics, BITS-Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus in 2006. His research area is optimal control theory.