Dr. Vijil Kumar is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics, in the School of Applied Sciences at KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. Dr. Vijil Kumar has completed his Ph. D. in Mathematics and Computing in the year 2022 from Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. He received his Master’s degree in Mathematics from Gurukula Kangri Vishwavidyalaya, Haridwar, in 2015. He has 1 year of teaching experience at U.G. and P.G. level. He also has about six years of research experience in various fields of Applied Mathematics. His research interest areas include Numerical Analysis, Differential Equations (ODEs), Astrodynamics, Orbital Dynamics, Space Trajectory Optimization and Machine Learning. His broad area of research is space trajectory optimization based numerical and optimization techniques for solving ordinary differential equations.