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Prof. Anurag KUMAR

Present Designation:

Honorary Professor, Indian Institute of Science

Areas of Interest:

Communication Networking; Cyber Physical Systems; Stochastic Modeling, Optimisation, and Control

Specialisation:

Communications, networking, information and decision sciences

Major Professional Contributions:

(i) Has published over 200 peer reviewed publications in journals and conferences.

(ii) Designed the traffic overload control for India’s Centre for Development of Telematics (CDoT) Main Automatic Exchange (MAX). This exchange has played a key role in the expansion of Indian telephone network from mid-1980s to 1990s.

(iii) He led the IISc team in India's nationwide effort to establish ERNET, India’s first wide area packet network, i.e., India's first Internet. During the course of this project, he introduced best practices in network measurement, modeling, and performance. Led the development of overlay controls for performance management of wireline and wireless networks.

(iv) He has developed new, widely cited, techniques for modeling the universally deployed IEEE 802.11 CSMA/CA miedium access protocol.

(v) He developed the earliest performance models of TCP over wireless links, with packet losses and channel fading. He made extensive contributions to stochastic modeling of key communication networking protocols: TCP (Internet’s Transmission Control Protocol), IEEE 802.11 (WiFi), and IEEE 802.15.4 (“Zigbee”) standard for IoT.

(vi) Lead author of two graduate level, internationally widely adopted text books: “Communication Networking: An Analytical Approach,” and “Wireless Networking”

(vii) Has guided (during a period of over 15 years) a small start-up company in developing a fully indigenous network simulation package. This produce now has an international market with over 400 customers across 15 countries.

(viii) Was Director of IISc, India’s top institute for graduate education and research in the sciences and in engineering; his administration undertook many initiatives, including: a peer reviewed tenure system; establishment of a Division of Interdisciplinary Research; vigorous efforts towards fund raising; initiatives for greatly enhanced industry related research; and digital platforms for the entire administration.

Consultancy Areas:

Performance analysis, design, and deployment of wireless networks 

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Professional Experience

1981 to 1988 Member of Technical Staff, Performance Analysis Department, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey

1988 to 2020 Assistant, Associated, and then Full Professor, ECE Department, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

2014 to 2020 Director, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

           

Keywords

  • Communication networks, wireless networks
  • Cyber physical systems, Internet of Things

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Education

  • Ph. D., 1982, Cornell University, N.Y. , USA
  • B. Tech., 1977, Electrical Engineering, I.I.T. Kanpur, U.P., India

Awards and Recognitions

J.C. Bose National Fellow (2011-2021)

A.C. Banerji Memorial Lecture, National Academy of Sciences (India), 2019

 Gujar Mal Modi Award for Innovative Science and Technology 2018

 IEI-IEEE Award for Engineering Excellence, 2017

Distinguished Alumnus Award, IIT Kanpur, 2016

VASVIK Award for Information Technology, 2015

Lifetime Achievement Award, Systems Society of India, 2016

CDAC-ACCS (Advanced Computer & Communications Society) Foundation Award, 2009

Indian Institute of Science Alumni Award for Excellence in Engineering Research, 2008

INAE Section Affiliated

VI: Electronics and Communication Engineering

Year of Election to Fellowship

1999

Year of Birth

1955

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