Professor T. M. Vinod Kumar has 50 years of academic and professional experience. He specialises in urban and regional planning, urban and regional infrastructure, urban environmental management, and application.

 of GIS in urban planning, models in planning, urban design, and smart cities. He has extensive consultancy experience in urban and rural development, infrastructure, tourism, and health care throughout India, as well as new town planning and development, city centre and housing planning, and structure planning in Malaysia. He has worked in Bhutan, China, Pakistan, Nepal, and India as a regional program coordinator for the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development. Academically, he has worked at the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, as a professor, head of the Department of Urban Planning, head of the Centre for Analysis and Systems Studies, head of the Centre for Urban Studies, and finally, dean of Studies at the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi.