Swarun Kumar
Sathaye Family Foundation Career Development Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Swarun Kumar is a professor in electrical and computer engineering with a courtesy appointment in computer science. His research focuses on building next-generation wireless network protocols and services. He leads the Emerging Wireless Technologies (WiTech) lab at CMU. He received the George Sprowls Award for best Ph.D. thesis in computer science at MIT and the President of India gold medal at IIT Madras.
Connecting the world with wireless devices and new sensing methods
The Future of Connected Devices
Education
2015 Ph.D., Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2010 BS, Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Affiliations
Research Interests
- Applications of security and privacy
- artificial intelligence
- cyber physical systems security and privacy
- cyberphysical systems (CPS)
- data/network science systems
- digital twins
- EVs and mobility
- grid-interactive, high-performance, and electrified buildings
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- IoT security and privacy
- Mill 19 digital backbone
- mobile and app security and privacy
- mobile systems
- mobility
- network security
- robotics
- secure systems
- social networks security and privacy
- systems security
- wireless networks
Media mentions
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
Third round of Future Enterprise Security Initiative funded projects announced
CyLab’s Future Enterprise Security Initiative has announced its third round of funded proposals.
CMU Engineering
Kumar inspires joy and energy as inaugural Milestone Moments speaker
Swarun Kumar gives an inspirational talk as the inaugural speaker in a new series launched by the Center for Faculty Success.
SIGMOBILE
Kumar Receives ACM SIGMOBILE Rockstar Award
ECE’s Swarun Kumar has been awarded the ACM SIGMOBILE 2024 Rockstar Award in recognition of outstanding contributions to the design of novel techniques to extend the range of low-power networks and the development of the area of programmable targeted wireless energy delivery.
WTAE
Kumar discusses why 5G can be slower than 4G networks
ECE’s Swarun Kumar discusses why 5G can be slower than 4G networks on WTAE. “Think of this from the operators’ point of view. They are rolling out a new network. There are going to be bugs; there are going to be issues. They’re going to have to assess how many users are on the new network rather than the old network,” he says.