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 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.

He has been an elected Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering since
1999[1] and an elected Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy since 2006.[2] 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 IEEE.[3]

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.[4]

References

[. Fellows profile. Archived 19 March 2008 at the Wayback Machine INAE.

Accessed 12 May 2008.

]. "Indian Fellow-Anurag Kumar" . Indian National Science Academy. 8 November

2017. Retrieved 8 November 2017.. Accessed 14 May 2008

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 _. IEEE Fellows Elected as of 1 January 2006. IEEE. Accessed 12 May 2008.

`. ACCS announces CDAC-ACCS Foundation Award winners 2009 , Advanced

Computing and Communications Society press release. Accessed 27 November
2009

External links

Homepage of Prof Anurag Kumar

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