Professor P. R. Kumar of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University is featured in an interview on the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) website.
Kumar, holder of the College of Engineering Chair in Computer Engineering, and a University Distinguished Professor, lectured at the National Science Foundation about the challenges of cyber-physical systems (CPS), or systems in which physical processes are tightly intertwined with networked computing.
Kumar has worked on problems in game theory, adaptive control, stochastic systems, simulated annealing, neural networks, machine learning, queueing networks, manufacturing systems, scheduling, wafer fabrication plants and information theory. His research is currently focused on energy systems, wireless networks, secure networking, automated transportation, and cyberphysical systems.
Kumar received the Donald P. Eckman Award of the American Automatic Control Council, the Fred W. Ellersick Prize of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Communications Society, the IEEE Field Award for Control Systems, and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGMOBILE Outstanding Contribution Award. Kumar is a Fellow of IEEE and ACM, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, USA, and a Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by ETH, Zurich.
He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Madras, the Alumni Achievement Award from Washington University in St. Louis, and the Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award from the College of Engineering, University of Illinois. He was a guest chair professor and leader of the Guest Chair Professor Group on Wireless Communication and Networking at Tsinghua University, Beijing, is an honorary professor at IIT Hyderabad, and a D.J. Gandhi Distinguished Visiting Professor of IIT Bombay.