Anurag Kumar

Anurag Kumar is the current Director of the Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore, India. He was a professor at the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering, and the Chairperson of the Electrical Sciences Division at the Indian Institute of Science, before becoming the Director. On 29 March 2014, the Council of the Indian Institute of Science selected him as the 20th Director.

Anurag Kumar
Born (1955-07-13) July 13, 1955
CitizenshipIndian
Alma materIndian Institute of Technology Kanpur (BTech)
Cornell University (PhD)
OccupationDirector, Indian Institute of Science
AwardsCo-winner of the CDAC-ACCS foundation award

Anurag Kumar obtained his B.Tech. degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1977, and his Ph.D. degree from Cornell University in 1981. He worked at Bell Labs in the US before joining as faculty at the Indian Institute of Science. His main research area used to be TCP/IP, but now he has moved into wireless networking focusing on sensor networks.

From 1989 to 2001, he coordinated the project ERNET for networking the major education and research institutions in India. This project was instrumental in bringing network connectivity to Indian students and researchers in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Awards & Fellowship

Professor Kumar received the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineers (IETE) CDIL Best Paper Award (1993).He is a recipient of the COMSWARE 2008 Conference Best Paper Award, and also the IISc Alumni Award for Excellence in Engineering Research (2008).On 26 October 2009, Anurag Kumar was announced as a co-winner of the CDAC-ACCS Foundation Award for 2009 by the Advanced Computing and Communications Society.[1]

He has been an elected Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering since 1999[2] and an elected Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy since 2006.[3] He is also a Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences from 2010. As of 1 January 2006, Anurag Kumar is an elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.[4] He has been awarded the DST J.C. Bose National Fellowship for the period 2011-2021.[5]

References
  1. ACCS announces CDAC-ACCS Foundation Award winners 2009, Advanced Computing and Communications Society press release. Accessed 27 November 2009
  2. Fellows profile. Archived 19 March 2008 at the Wayback Machine INAE. Accessed 12 May 2008.
  3. "Indian Fellow-Anurag Kumar". Indian National Science Academy. 8 November 2017. Retrieved 8 November 2017.. Accessed 14 May 2008
  4. IEEE Fellows Elected as of 1 January 2006. IEEE. Accessed 12 May 2008.
  5. DST J.C. Bose National Fellowship for the period 2011-2021 Accessed 16 June 2020.
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