Ajay Vijayakumar

Ajay Vijayakumar is an accomplished engineer specializing in battery performance and clean growth innovation, with current experience at WAE since January 2023. Prior roles include serving as a Clean Growth Innovation Analyst at Innovate UK from September 2021 to January 2023 and as an Automotive Engineer at Mahindra Research Valley in 2019, where notable contributions included optimizing an internal combustion engine for hydrogen fuel and developing a combustion model on GT-Power. Ajay's earlier experience at Mahindra & Mahindra Limited in 2018 involved reducing energy dependency through biogas harvesting and creating costing models using PERT analysis. Academic qualifications include a Master’s degree in Automotive Engineering with Electric Propulsion from the University of Bath and a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from PES University.