Alumni Achievement Awards: P.R. Kumar

Panganamala Ramana Kumar
Doctor of Science in Systems Science & Mathematics, 1977
Master of Science in Systems Science & Mathematics, 1975
Alumni Achievement Award

Dr. P. R. Kumar obtained his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering (Electronics) from I.I.T. Madras in 1973, and was awarded a Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa, by Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, Zurich, in 2008.

From 1977 to 1984, he was a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. Since 1985, he has been at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is currently Franklin W. Woeltge Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Research Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, Information Trust Institute Research Professor, and Affiliate Professor of Computer Science.

Dr. Kumar has worked on problems in game theory, adaptive control, neural networks, machine learning, queuing networks and manufacturing systems. His current research interests are in wireless networks, sensor networks and networked embedded control systems.

Dr. Kumar is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the IEEE, and the recipient of the Donald P. Eckman Award of the American Automatic Control Council, the IEEE Field Award and the Fred W. Ellersick Prize of the IEEE Communications Society. Dr. Kumar also holds a Guest Chair Professorship at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.

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