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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.

Office
4102 Collaborative Innovation Center
Phone
412.268.1892
Email
swarun@cmu.edu
Assistant
Grace Bintrim
Google Scholar
Swarun Kumar
Websites
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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

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.