Born in Mamidala, Nalgonda Dist, Telangana. Prof. Jagadeesh Kumar is currently the Vice Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi and is on lien from IIT Delhi (Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT – Delhi).

He obtained his MS(EE) and PhD(EE) degrees from the Dept of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and did his Post-Doctoral Research at at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

He works in the area of Nanoelectronic Devices, Nanoscale Device modeling and simulation, Innovative Device Design and Power semiconductor devices and has published extensively in the above areas with four book chapters and more than 200 publications in refereed journals and conferences. Several patent applications have been filed based on his research. He is on the Editorial Board of Scientific Reports, an online and open access primary research publication from the publishers of Nature. He also an Editor of IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA. From 2006 to 2015, he served as an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices published by IEEE, USA. He is the Editor-in-Chief of IETE Technical Review. He is also an Associate Editor of Journal of Computational Electronics published by Springer, USA. He is on the editorial board of Recent Patents on Nanotechnology, and was on the editorial board of Recent Patents on Electrical Engineering, and Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. He is the lead Guest Editor (i) for the joint special issue of IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices and IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology (November 2008) on Nanowire Transistors: Modeling, Device Design, and Technology. and (ii) for the special issue of IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices (January 2010) on “Light Emitting Diodes”.

He is a member of various societies including:

• Member of the IEEE Electron Devices Society Publications Committee for more than five years.
• Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering, The National Academy of Sciences, India, and The Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, India.
• Member of University Grants Commission (UGC)

He has been recognized with the following awards:

• 29th IETE Ram Lal Wadhwa Gold Medal for distinguished contribution in the field of Semiconductor device design and modeling.
• First ever ISA-VSI TechnoMentor Award given by the India Electronics & Semiconductor Association to recognize a distinguished Indian academician and researcher for playing a significant role as a mentor and researcher.
• Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Electron Devices Society selected to speak in the area of Nanoelectronics and a recipient of 2008 IBM Faculty award in recognition of professional achievements.