1. PE 30003: Drilling & Hydraulic Fracturing Technology, IIPE Visakhapatnam
2. PE 30007: Advanced Drilling Technology, IIPE Visakhapatnam
3. PE 40005: Offshore and Deep Sea Technology, IIPE Visakhapatnam
4. PE 30005: Reservoir Engineering Lab, IIPE Visakhapatnam
5. PE 40002: Production Engineering Lab, IIPE Visakhapatnam
6. PTEG211: Drilling Engineering & Well Completion, UPES Dehradun
7. EASC 202: Geology Lab II, UPES Dehradun
8. GNEG 224: Fluid Mechanics Lab, UPES Dehradun 5. PTE321: Natural Gas Processing, LPU Punjab
9. PTE429: Biomass Conversion and Utilization, LPU Punjab
10. PTE305: Drilling Fluids Lab, LPU Punjab
11. CHM216: Classical and Instrumental Methods of Analysis Lab, LPU Punjab

Ph.D., 2018
Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India

B.Tech, 2014
Petroleum Engineering, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology (RGIPT) Jais, Uttar Pradesh, India

July 2019 - Present
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Petroleum Engineering and Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy (IIPE), Visakhapatnam, India

Jan 2019 - July 2019
Assistant Professor - Senior Scale
Dept. of Petroleum Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India

July 2018 - Dec 2018
Assistant Professor - Assistant Professor
Dept. of Che-Petroleum Engineering, Lovely Professional University (LPU), Punjab, India

• Professional member of Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) (Member ID: 3525501)
• Life member of The Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) (Membership No.: L37039)

• Shailesh Kumar, Vikrant Singh Rajput and Vikas Mahto, “Experimental studies on demulsification of heavy crude oil-in-water emulsions by chemicals, heating and centrifuging”. SPE Production and Operations. (2020). SPE-204452-PA. (Impact Factor: 1.875)
• Shailesh Kumar and Vikas Mahto, “Use of a novel surfactant to prepare oil-in-water emulsion of an Indian heavy crude oil for pipeline transportation”. Energy & Fuels. 31(2017), 12010-12020. (Impact Factor: 3.421)
• Shailesh Kumar and Vikas Mahto, “Emulsification of Indian heavy crude oil using a novel surfactant for pipeline transportation”, Petroleum Science. 14(2017), 372–382. (Impact Factor: 2.096)
• Shailesh Kumar and Vikas Mahto, “Emulsification of Indian heavy crude oil in water for its efficient transportation through offshore pipelines”, Chemical Engineering Research and Design. 115 (2016), 34–43. (Impact Factor: 3.35)
• Bhola Kumar Paswan, Shailesh Kumar, and Vikas Mahto, "Evaluation of a soybean oil derived surfactant in the development of oil-in-water (O/W) emulsion drilling mud for shale formation", SPE Journal. (Under Review)

• Koyyana Jahnavi, Konala Reshma Reddy, Naren Kumar Reddy Sabadu, Shailesh Kumar, “Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Analysis of Flow Characteristics of Heavy Crude Oil-in-Water Emulsion through Pipelines”, Presented In: 3rd International Biennial Oil, Gas, and Petrochemical Conference (OGPC2020), Bushehr, Iran, 28-29th December 2020 (virtual mode). (International Conference)
• Dangeti Sree Karthik, Ruthala Sumanth, Voora Dheeraj, Shailesh Kumar, “A CFD Analysis on Proppant Transport in Fracture for Foam-Based Fracturing Fluid”, Presented In: 3rd International Biennial Oil, Gas, and Petrochemical Conference (OGPC2020), Bushehr, Iran, 28-29th December 2020 (virtual mode). (International Conference)
• Shailesh Kumar, “Emulsification of an Indian Heavy Crude Oil in Water for Pipeline Transportation in Presence of Tri-triethanolamine Monosunflower Ester”, In: International Conference & Exhibition on Oil Field Chemicals & Treatments (OFCTC 2019), Mumbai, INDIA 18th- 19th July 2019. (International Conference)
  
• Shailesh Kumar, Barasha Deka, and Vikas Mahto, “Application of a novel surfactant and ultrasonic waves for emulsification of an Indian heavy crude oil in water for pipeline transportation”, In: Mineral Processing Technology – 2018, 10-12 Oct, IIT(ISM) Dhanbad, India. (International Conference)
• Shailesh Kumar, “Ultrasonic emulsification of an Indian heavy crude oil in water for transportation through offshore pipelines”, In: South Asia Regional Student Paper Contest, Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), April, 2017. Mumbai, India.
• Shailesh Kumar and Vikas Mahto, “Application of anionic surfactants for emulsification of an Indian heavy crude oil in water for transportation through offshore pipelines”, In: PEDJP-2017, 12-16 Feb, IIT(ISM) Dhanbad, India. (International conference)

M.Tech. Thesis Supervised

1. Miss. Bipasha Banerjee, Application of Pour Point Depressants for Flow Improvement of Waxy Crude Oils, 2019.
2. Mr. Arya Bhardwaj, Development of Drilling Fluid in Presence of Naturally Extracted Nanoparticles, 2019.