P. R. Kumar obtained his B. Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering 
(Electronics) from I.I.T. Madras in 1973, and the M.S. and D.Sc. 
degrees in Systems Science and Mathematics from Washington 
University, St. Louis in 1975 and 1977, respectively.

From 1977-84  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,
Urbana-Champaign, where he is currently  Franklin W. Woeltge
Professor of Electrical and Computer  Engineering, and a
Research Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory.

He has worked on problems in game theory, adaptive control, 
stochastic systems, simulated annealing, neural networks, machine 
learning, queueing networks, manufacturing systems, scheduling, and 
wafer fabrication plants.  His current research interests are in 
wireless networks, sensor networks, and networked embedded control 
systems.

He received the Donald P. Eckman award of the American Automatic 
Control Council, the IEEE Field Award in Control Systems,
the Fred W. Ellersick Prize of the IEEE Communications 
Society, is a Fellow of the IEEE, and a member of the US National
Academy of Engineering.