Uday Kumar

Uday Kumar, PhD, is the Chair Professor of Operation and Maintenance Engineering, and Director of Luleå Railway Research Center. He has more than 30 years of experience in consulting and finding solutions to industrial problems related to maintenance of engineering assets. He has a wide range of interests in equipment maintenance, reliability and maintainability analysis, product support, life cycle costing, risk analysis, system analysis, eMaintenance, and asset management. He has been involved in many EU framework projects, published more than 300 papers in International Journals and Conference Proceedings and co-authored four books on maintenance engineering and management. He is an elected member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences.