Anurag Kumar

Who is Anurag Kumar?

Prof. Anurag Kumar is a professor at Department of Electrical Communication and the chairman of Electrical Sciences Division at Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India. The council of the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore on 29 March 2014 selected him, as its 20th director. He holds a PhD from Cornell University, obtained after graduating from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1977. He worked at Bell Labs in the US before joining as Indian Institute of Science faculty. He has an Erdős number of 4. 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 80s and early 90s.

He has been an elected Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering since 1999 and an elected Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy since 2006. He is also a fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences from 2010. As of January 1, 2006, Anurag Kumar is an elected Fellow of the IEEE.