Jitendra Kumar
Jitendra Kumar
Assistant ProfessorBiography
Dr. Jitendra Kumar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur. He joined the institute in February 2023. Prior to this, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh, USA (from 2018), and he continued at CMU as a Special Faculty Researcher until early 2023. At CMU, he worked on the Belle II experiment at SuperKEKB, Japan, where he contributed to the development and analysis of the Central Drift Chamber and conducted studies in flavor physics. Belle II is one of the world’s leading experiments in precision flavor physics, aiming to test the Standard Model and search for signs of new physics through rare decays and CP violation measurements. Dr. Jitendra is part of the Belle II Collaboration from IIT Jodhpur.
His doctoral research, conducted in collaboration with the ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), CERN, Switzerland, focused on heavy-flavor azimuthal correlations in high-energy proton-proton collisions. ALICE is a major experiment at the LHC dedicated to studying the quark-gluon plasma and the properties of strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions. Following his Ph.D., degree Dr. Jitendra served as a Research Associate and Project Scientist at IIT Bombay.
Research
Key areas;
- Flavour Physics
- Hadron spectroscopy and QCD
- AI/ML in High-Energy Physics
- Detector studies
Dr. Jitendra’s research group at IIT Jodhpur is working on experimental high-energy particle physics, with a primary focus on flavor physics (e.g., LFUV, CP violation, rare decays) at the Belle II experiment. He also works on hadron spectroscopy (e.g., pentaquarks) to investigate the dynamics of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) in the non-perturbative regime. In addition, the group investigates the application of AI/ML techniques to enhance data analysis and search for rare processes or beyond-the-standard-model (BSM) physics. His group is also exploring quantum measurement concepts for precision measurements and foundational aspects of particle physics.
