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,
 Holmdel, N.J., for over 6 years.  Since 1988 he has been with the
 Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, in the Department of
 Electrical Communication Engineering, where he is now a Professor.
 He is currently also the Chair of the Electrical Sciences Division at
 IISc.  From 1988 to 2003 he was the Coordinator at IISc of the
 Education and Research Network Project (ERNET), 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.  He is a Fellow of the IEEE, of the Indian
 National Science Academy (INSA), of the Indian Academy of Science
 (IASc), and of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE).  He
 is a coauthor of the postgraduate text-books ``Communication
 Networking: An Analytical Approach,'' and "Wireless Networking" both
 by Kumar, Manjunath and Kuri, published by Elsevier.