Dr Amit Kumar Jain is a Lecturer within the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the School of Computing, Engineering and Built Environment. Before this, he primarily worked at the University of Cambridge, UK, for his postdoctoral research in predictive maintenance. He received a PhD from IIT Indore, India, for his contributions to prognostics in intelligent manufacturing systems. He holds a master's in maintenance engineering from NIT Bhopal and a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering.
He is presently teaching and researching data-centric and risk-informed asset management. He focuses on how asset information and artificial intelligence can considerably improve asset performance. His primary research interests are reliability engineering, Industry 4.0 for SMEs, manufacturing analytics, and operations management.
In 2019, he won the Best Paper Award at the Int. Conf. on Precision, Meso, Micro, and Nano Engineering. He is currently the editorial board member of the Life Cycle Engineering speciality section of Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology. He is also associated with CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group as a Series Editor.