Dr. Vikash Kumar is currently working as a Research Associate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at KU Leuven, Belgium. Previously, he served as a Research Associate at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA. He completed his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Patna in 2023. His research interests include electromechanical modelling, dynamic modeling of gearbox, nonlinear analysis, signal processing, AI-based machinery fault diagnosis.