P. Vijay Kumar received the B.Tech. and M.Tech. degrees from IIT Kharagpur and IIT Kanpur and the Ph.D. Degree from the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, in 1983, all in Electrical Engineering.   From 1983-2003, he was on the faculty of the EE-Systems Department of USC. He is currently an Adjunct Research Professor at USC. Since 2003, he has been with the ECE Department of IISc, where he additionally is an associate faculty member of the CSA department.  He was an Associate Editor for Coding Theory for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 1993-1996.  A 2008 paper received the DCOSS 2008 best paper award (algorithmic track).  In 1994, he received the USC School-of-Engineering Senior Research Award for contributions to coding theory. He is a co-recipient of the IEEE Information Theory Society 1995 Prize Paper Award and a Fellow of the IEEE