Prof. Sunil Kumar
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Dr. Sunil Kumar received his B.E. (Electronics Engineering) from National Institute of Technology, Surat in 1988, and the M.E. and Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) , Pilani (India) in 1993 and 1997, respectively. From 1997 to 2002, Dr. Kumar was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Integrated Media Systems Center and Adjunct Faculty in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. From 2000 to 2002, he was a Consultant in industry on JPEG2000 and MPEG-4 related projects. He was also a member of US delegation in JPEG2000 standardization activities.
Currently, Dr. Kumar is a Professor and Thomas G. Pine Faculty Fellow in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at San Diego State University (SDSU), San Diego, California. Prior to this, he served as an Associate Professor at SDSU (2006 – 2013), and as an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY (2002 – 2006). He was a Visiting Professor (in 2014) and ASEE Summer Faculty Fellow (in summer of 2007 and 2008) in the Information Directorate at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, NY, where he conducted research in Airborne and Directional Wireless Networks.
Dr. Kumar is a recipient of the SDSU Alumni Outstanding Faculty Award (2015) and President’s Leadership Fund Award for Faculty Excellence (2012). He is a senior member of IEEE and has published more than 130 research articles in international journals and conferences, 7 books/book chapters, and several U.S. invention disclosures. He serves on the technical program committee of many conferences and has organized special sessions and workshops in various conferences. He has received over $4M in external research funding from the National Science Foundation, U.S. Air Force Research Lab, Department of Energy, California Energy Commission, Information Institute, Cisco, and Sprint Advanced Technology Labs.
Dr. Kumar has research interests in (i) QoS-aware and cross-layer protocols for multimedia traffic in wireless ad hoc, sensor, cognitive radio, and cellular networks,(ii) Error resilient multimedia compression techniques for wireless transmission, including HEVC, H.264/AVC and JPEG2000, (iii) Image processing and machine learning techniques, and (iv) Energy efficiency.
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