He was a professor and holder of the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council's Industrial Chair in Telecommunications at the University of Saskatchewan from 1987 to 1997,[1] President and chief executive officer of Vecima networks.
From 1982 to 1987, Kumar was Vice President of Research for SED Systems where he was involved in the design of a variety of satellite earth stations.
Dr Kumar received his Bachelor of Engineering degree in electrical communication engineering in 1967 from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India and his Masters of Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India in 1971.
He received his PhD in Electronics Engineering from Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada where he was a Commonwealth Scholar.
Kumar is an expert in microwave engineering and has a number of patents and papers in this area.