Prof. Kumar is an expert in Biomedical engineering, neuromotor control, biosignal phenomena, and human-computer interaction and an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (PhD, 1991) and Chennai (1983).
The crash killed 42-year-old mother Nancy Lefrançois and her 11-year-old son Loïc Chevalier, who were travelling in a passenger vehicle struck in the collision.