Dr. Kar is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur, India, since 2018. He completed his doctoral program under Prof. S. K. Panda, Department of Mechanical Engineering at NIT Rourkela in 2015 as a full-time research scholar in the field of Computational Solid Mechanics. His research interests are Nonlinear Finite Element Method, Advanced Composite Structures, Computational Mechanics and Shape Optimization. He authored (and co-authored) over 60 research articles in peer-reviewed journals, books and conferences in the field of modeling and analysis of composite structures. He is also the Editorial Board Member of Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Materials (De Gruyter). Currently, he is handling various research projects as Principal Investigator (and Co-PI) funded by government agencies. Presently, he is supervising 06 PhD students in the area of advanced composite structures. He is the recipient of Research Award 2016 from VIT University, India; Early Career Research Award 2017 from DST, Government of India; Young Scientist 2019 from Venus International Foundation, India; and Preeminent Researcher Award 2019 from International Institute of Organized Research, India in association with Western Sydney University, Australia. He is a recognized reviewer of many reputed international journals of his domain. He is a lifetime member of Indian Society for Applied Mechanics.