Professor Anurag Kumar obtained his B.Tech. degree from the Indian
 Institute of Technology at Kanpur, and the PhD degree from Cornell
 University, both in Electrical Engineering. He was then with Bell
 Laboratories, for over 6 years.  He returned to India in 1988, and
 has since been with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc),
 Bangalore, on the faculty of the Department of Electrical
 Communication Engineering.  Before taking over as the Director, on 1
 August 2014, he was the Chair of the Electrical Sciences Division
 since 2007.  From 1988 to 2003 he was the Coordinator at IISc of the
 Education and Research Network Project (ERNET), a UNDP and Government
 of India collaborative national program that established India's
 first wide-area packet switching network.

His area of research is communication networking, specifically,
 modeling, analysis, control, and optimisation problems arising in
 communication networks and distributed systems. Recently his research
 has focused primarily on wireless networking.  In addition to many
 publications in top venues, he has co-authored two books:
 Communications Networking: An Analytical Approach, and Wireless
 Networking, both published by Morgan Kaufman (Elsevier), and
 co-authored with D. Manjunath and Joy Kuri.

He was the 1977 President's Gold Medallist in IIT Kanpur. He received
 the IISc Alumni Award for Excellence in Engineering Research for
 2008. He has been elected Fellow of the IEEE, the Indian National
 Science Academy (INSA), the Indian National Academy of Engineering
 (INAE), the Indian Academy of Science (IASc), and The World Academy
 of Sciences (TWAS). During the period 2005-2009, he was an area
 editor for the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.  He is a
 J.C. Bose National Fellow, awarded by the Department of Science
 Technology, for the period 2011-2021.