Mohan Kumar   

Professor                                                                               

PICO Research Group and CReWMaN Laboratory
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The University of Texas at Arlington
Box 19015, Arlington TX 76120
Ph: (817) 272 3610 Fax : (817) 272 3784 

Office: 333NH

Lab: 238 ELB

Email : kumar(at)cse(dot)uta(dot)edu

Teaching — Fall 2007:  CSE 5311  Course page has been updated

Office Hours:  Tuesdays 1:30– 3:00 PM and Wednesdays 2:30- 4:00 PM

Note for Students: If you cannot come by my office at the above times, contact by email

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Since Spring 2001, Kumar has been with CSE@UTA.  He is also an adjunct professor at the Curtin University of Technology, Perth Australia. His current research interests are in pervasive computing, wireless  networks and mobility, active networks, mobile agents and distributed computing.  He initiated pervasive computing research activities  at CSE@UTA and directs the Pervasive and Invisible Computing (PICO) lab. He co-founded the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive  Computing (PerCom) and the Elsevier's Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal.  He served as the Program Chair, PerCom 2003 and the General Chair, PerCom 2005,  and  he is currently the Chair of the PerCom Steering Committee. He was the lead PI in the NSF  funded PICO project on the development of middleware services for pervasive computing. Current research work includes the application  of  pervasive computing into such areas as telemedicine, manufacturing and security. Mohan supervised 10 doctoral dissertations and 25 Master’s  theses in the above areas. He has  published over 130 refereed articles in journals and conference  proceedings. He is collaborating with colleagues and students in various projects in the areas of networking, pervasive computing and high speed networking.  Mohan is a senior member of the IEEE.

 

Mohan obtained his Ph.D and MTech degrees from the Indian Institute of Science in 1992 and 1985 respectively and the  BE degree from the Bangalore University in 1982.  During 1992-2000, he served as a faculty at the School of Computer Science,    Curtin University of TechnologyPerthAustralia.   At Curtin University he lead research activities in the areas of Parallel Computing  and Mobile Computing, developed laboratories and supervised 6 PhD and 5 MS Theses.  Along with his students, he developed  algorithms for active-networks based routing and multicasting  in mobile environments and prefetching and caching in mobile and  distributed systems.  He received  the Vice-Chancellor's Excellence Award in 1999.  At the Indian Institute of Science during 1986-92,  he served as a Scientific Officer and was responsible for the training of more than 100 University Professors and Industrial  Engineers  in the areas of  microprocessors,  their applications and associated developmental tools. Also, during this time he built 2 parallel  computers  and developed the Extended Hypercube architecture for his doctoral work for which he received the Best Thesis award  for the year 1991-92. 

 

Research Interests

· Pervasive Computing

· Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing

· Active Networks and Mobile Agents

· Parallel and Distributed Computing

 

 

Current Conference and Journal Activities (Selected)

· Member, Editorial Board, The Computer Journal

· Area Editor and Guest-Editor, Pervasive and Mobile Computing

· Chair, Steering Committee, IEEE PerCom

· Co-General Chair, IEEE WoWMoM 2008

· Chair, Symposium on Middleware for Sensor Systems (MiSS 2007), ISSNIP 2007

· Co-Chair, Workshop on Mobile Ad Hoc and Senor Systems for Global and Homeland Security (MASS-GHS), Pisa, Italy, 2007.

· Program Vice-Chair, IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, Taipei, December 2007.