Shailendra Kumar is a tech philosopher and AI researcher. Presently, Dr. Kumar is a faculty member and HoD (I/C) at Sikkim's Central University in Gangtok, India. Artificial intelligence and ethics, business ethics, corporate social responsibility, business and religion, business and gender, business and human rights, and marketing management are among his research and specialisation areas. He has a rich teaching experience of more than 15 years and is widely published. His books are used in courses at well-known business schools in India and abroad, and his research papers are published by the leading publishers around the world, such as Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, Springer, Nature, Wiley, Emerald, Cengage, McMillan, Inderscience, MDPI, Adam Marszalek, etc.

When it comes to AI, he has been an early trailblazer in terms of thought. In AI coding & programming, he has been an early advocate of drawing on the normative notions of classical philosophers. His innovative arguments on the identity of AI humanoids as artificial persons & legal entities are a significant addition to the literature on AI ethics and philosophy.

His quantitative study on tourism and AI looks at how willing customers are to use robots with AI and what they like about the way they look. These service robots meticulously map across tourism tasks using their caricatured, zoomorphic, mechanoid, and humanoid morphologies.

His quantitative study on gender and feminist considerations in AI covers women, technology, and rising nations. The paper investigates how AI and robotics affect women's opportunities in underdeveloped countries using India as a case study. Underdeveloped countries, notably South Asia, see women as domestic workers and under-represented in high-level professions. Underemployment and occupational discrimination are disproportionate.

Dr. Kumar has also used Marx's theory to look at the middle class's place in capitalism and what its likely future will be in the class struggle. He looks at how AI changes the middle class, how technology is changing work, capitalism, and class struggle, and how AI and Marx's ideas are connected.

Through his research titled "Cognitive Morality and AI," he proposes using Lawrence Kohlberg's cognitive theory to categorize the AI machines.

His quantitative research on humans and AI companion animals sheds light on human-pet interactions and views towards live and AI pets. This research is published in a top-tier journal named Topoi

He is a member of the Board of Studies and School Board at different universities.