P. R. Kumar

Franklin W. Woeltge Professor
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Professor
Coordinated Science Laboratory

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Convergence Lab

  • Movies and Testbed

    • Tutorials and Talks

  • Tutorial style presentations

    • Papers

  • By area or by date

    • Items

    Research

  • Wireless Networks, Sensor Networks, Convergence with Control
  • Belief Propagation/Sensor Networks
  • Communication Networks
  • Semiconductor Manufacturing
  • Manufacturing Systems
  • Systems Theory
  • Control
  • Adaptive Systems
  • Learning
  • Neural Networks
  • Optimization
  • Simulated Annealing
  • Stochastic Systems
  • Financial Economics

    • Current Post-Doctoral Associates

  • Dr. Vinod Prabhakaran
  • Dr. Roberto Solis

    • Current Graduate Students

  • Nikolaos M. Freris
  • Hemant J. Kowshik
  • Kyoung-Dae Kim
  • Anand Muralidhar
  • I-Hong Hou
  • Yan Gao
  • Ray Kong Lam
  • Zheng Zeng
  • Jonathan Ponniah
  • Truong Tan Duc An

    • Past Ph.D. Students

  • Woei Lin, Morgan State University
  • Arthur H. Becker, Jr., National Security Agency
  • Daniel P. Connors, IBM, Yorktown Heights
  • Sheng-Fuu Lin, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan.
  • Wei (Wade) Ren
  • Sanjeev M. Naik, General Motors Research Lab
  • Kevin L. Buescher, Los Alamos National Labs
  • James R. Perkins, Boston University
  • Steve Chi-Hung Lu, Teletronics
  • Sunil P. C. Kumar, Stanford University
  • Piyush Gupta, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
  • James R. B. Morrison, Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engg., KAIST, South Korea
  • Kun Huang, Ohio State University
  • Scott Graham, AFIT, Ohio
  • Vikas Kawadia, BBN
  • Girish Baliga, Google
  • Feng Xue, Intel, Santa Clara
  • Kurt Plarre, UC Santa Barbara
  • Arvind Giridhar, Goldman Sachs
  • Vivek Raghunathan, Google
  • Min Cao, Cisco
  • Craig Robinson, Mercedes-Benz R&D North America
  • Roberto Robles Solis, Instituto Tecnologico de Zacatecas, and Universidad Autonoma de Zacatecas

    • (Please keep in touch to let us know how/what you are doing.)

    Past M.S. Students

  • T. H. Shiau
  • Thomas D. Mickus, Lucent
  • Roger D. Ellis
  • James R. Perkins, Boston University
  • Rayadurgam Ravikanth
  • Deepa Ramaswamy
  • Adrian Cornelius
  • William J. Aldrich, Cummins
  • Barkha Madan
  • Gil I. Winograd
  • Chad Andrew Griffin
  • David Louis Sohl (Webpage)
  • Ray M. Richardson
  • Qing Xu
  • James R. B. Morrison, IBM Microelectronics
  • Michael W. Daniels, Moog
  • Kun Huang, UIUC
  • Kurt Plarre, UIUC
  • Swetha Narayanaswamy, Microsoft
  • Vikas Kawadia, UIUC
  • Amit Nainani
  • Binita Gupta
  • Yan Wu
  • Vivek Raghunathan
  • Nitin Gupta
  • Ashish Agarwal
  • Adithya Yalavarti
  • Nikolaos Freris
  • Hemant Kowshik
  • Robert McCabe
  • Andrew Cheng

    • (Please keep in touch to let us know how/what you are doing.)

    Conferences, Symposia, Workshops, etc

  • IMS Workshop on Applied Probability,
    May 31-June 11, 1999, The Chinese University of Hong Kong , Hong Kong

  • The Astrom Symposium on Control,
    August 28, 1999, Lund Sweden

  • Stochastic Geometry and Teletraffic,
    EURANDOM, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, April 25-26, 2000

  • Panel on Future Directions in Control and Dynamical Systems,
    Washington, DC, June 16-17, 2000.

  • Conference on Stochastic Networks,
    June 19-24, 2000, University of Wisconsin, Madison

  • Information Technology in South Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America: Progress, Problems, and Prospects,
    Saturday, April 28, 2001, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  • NSF/ONR Workshop on Cross-Layer Design in Adaptive Ad Hoc Networks: From Signal Processing to Global Networking,
    May 31-June 1, 2001, Cornell University

  • Symposium on Complex Systems Modeling and Optimization in the Information Age To Celebrate 45 Years of Outstanding Contribution of Prof. Yu-Chi Larry Ho,
    June 23-24, 2001, Harvard University

  • 2001 SIAM Annual Meeting,
    July 9-13, 2001, San Diego, California

  • Workshop on Wireless Networks,
    Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, Minneapolis, MN, August 8-10, 2001.

  • ITCOM + OPTICOMM 2001: The Convergence of Information Technologies and Communications,
    Denver, August 19-24, 2001.

  • NSF Workshop on an Infrastructure for Mobile and Wireless Systems , The Convergence of Information Technologies and Communications,
    Scottsdale, Arizona, Oct. 15, 2001.

  • Stochastic Theory and Control Workshop,
    University of Kansas, Oct. 18-20, 2001.

  • Illinois/Berkeley Student Workshop on Wireless Networks and Convergence, CSL, Urbana, November 17-18, 2001

  • European Wireless Conference,
    Florence, Italy, Feb 26-28, 2002.

  • The Fifth Stochastik-Tage: German Open Conference on Probability and Statistics,
    Magdeburg, Germany, March 19-22, 2002

  • Massively Distributed Self-Organizing Networks ,
    May 13-17, 2002. Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles

  • IEEE High-Speed Networking Workshop - HSN 2002,
    June 23, 2002, New York

  • Conference on Stochastic Networks,
    June 24-29, 2002, Stanford University

  • 10th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation,
    Lisbon, Portugal, July 9-13, 2002.
  • IUTAM Symposium on Nonlinear Stochastic Dynamics,
    Allerton Park, Monticello, Illinois, USA, August 26-30, 2002.

  • IEEE Information Theory Workshop,
    Bangalore, India, October 20-25, 2002.

  • International Workshop on Stochastic Models and IV International Workshop on Retrial Queues ,
    Cochin, India, December 17-21, 2002.

  • NCCR Annual Workshop On Mobile Information and Communication Systems Annual Workshop 2003, ,
    February 13, 2003, Zurich, Switzerland.

  • WiOpt'03: Modeling and Optimization in Mobile and Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks ,
    March 3 - 5, 2003, Sophia-Antipolis, France.

  • DIMACS Workshop on Network Information Theory ,
    March 17 - 19, 2003, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ.

  • The 2nd International Workshop on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN '03), ,
    April 22-23, 2003, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Palo Alto, California, USA.

  • Probability and Statistical Mechanics in Information Science, ,
    May 20 - July 20, 2003, Centro Di Ricerca Matematica, Ennio De Giorgi, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy.

  • Sensor Networks: Theory and Military Applications, ,
    Aug 27, 2003, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

  • PWC 2003: The Eighth International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications, ,
    September 23-24, 2003, Venice, Italy.

  • IEEE TENCON'2003, ,
    October 15-17, 2003, Bangalore, India.

  • 2004 International Zurich Seminar on Communications, ,
    February 18-20, 2004. Zurich, Switzerland.

  • The 7th Informs Telecommunication Conference, ,
    March 7--10, 2004, Boca Raton, Florida.

  • Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN '04) ,
    April 26-27, 2004, Berkeley, CA.

  • IEEE Communication Theory Workshop,
    May 5-8, 2004, Capri, Italy.

  • Workshop on spatial stochastic modelling, with applications to communications,
    9 to 12 June 2004, Edinburgh.

  • Mesh Networking Summit, Microsoft, Redmond.
    June 23-24, 2004. Redmond, Washington.

  • 2004 Stochastic Networks Conference,
    Montreal, July 18-23, 2004.

  • The 2004 National Summit for Community Wireless Networks,
    August 20-22, 2004, Urbana, IL.

  • The Capri School on Wireless Communication,
    Sep. 13-17, 2004, Capri, Italy.

  • Tutorials at Mobicom 2004.
    September 26, 2004. Philadelphia, PA.

  • 19th IEEE Annual Computer Communications Workshop,
    October 17-20, 2004, Bonita Springs, Florida

  • 2004 IEEE Information Theory Workshop,
    October 24-29, 2004. San Antonio, Texas.
  • ACM Sensys '04,
    Nov, 3-5, 2004, Baltimore, MD.

  • 43rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control,
    Dec. 14-17, 2004, Bahamas

  • Wireless Foundations Workshop,
    Univ. of California, Berkeley, Feb. 11, 2005.

  • Workshop on Integrated Control, Estimation and Communication,
    California Institute of Technology, March 31 - April 2, 2005.

  • Models of Real-World Random Networks, MSRI,
    Univ. of California, Berkeley, April 18-22, 2005.

  • The Fourth International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN'05),
    April 25-27, 2005, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA.

  • IFIP Networking 2005,
    Waterloo, Canada, May 2-6, 2005.

  • The Economics, Technology and Policy of Unlicensed Spectrum,
    May 16-17, 2005, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.

  • MobiHoc 2005: 6th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing,
    May 25-28, 2005, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA

  • Symposium on Systems, Control and Networks in Honor of Professor Pravin Varaiya on his 65th Birthday,
    June 5-7, 2005, Berkeley, CA.

  • WICON'05 First International Conference on Wireless Internet,
    Budapest, July 10-15, 2005.

  • ACM E-WIND 2005: Workshop on Experimental Approaches to Wireless Network Design and Analysis,
    August 22, 2005, Philadelphia.



  • 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory,
    Sep 4-9, 2005, Adelaide, Australia.

  • IFIP Performace 2005,
    October 3-7, 2005, Juan les-Pins, France.

  • Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers
    October 30 - Nov. 2, 2005, Pacific Grove. CA.

  • Third International Conference on Intelligent Sensing and Information Processing,
    December 14-17, 2005, Bangalore.

  • Second World Congress in Lateral Computing,
    December 16-18, 2005, Bangalore.

  • Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), March 22--24, 2006, Princeton, NJ.

  • Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC 2006), March 29-31, 2006, Santa Barbara, USA.

  • Second Workshop on Spatial Stochastic Models for Wireless Networks (SPASWIN), April 7, 2006, Boston.

  • International Conference on Management Sciences: Optimization Models & Applications - In Honor of Suresh P. Sethi, May 20--22, 2006, The University of Texas at Dallas.

  • 2006 IEEE Communication Theory Workshop, May 21--24, 2006, Dorado, Puerto Rico.

  • National Science Foundation (NSF) Workshop: Future Directions in Systems Research for Networked Sensing, May 25--26, 2006, Boston University.

  • 2006 Conference on Stochastic Networks,
    June 19-24, 2006, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.

  • Dynamo Training School,
    28th June-1st July, 2006, Lisbon, Portugal.

  • ALGOSENSORS 2006: International Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Wireless Sensor Networks,
    July 15 2006, Venice, Italy.

  • IVth Conference on Limit Theorems in Probability Theory and Their Applications,
    August 21 -August 25, 2006, Novosibirsk, Russia.

  • Towards a Science of Networks Workshop: Communication Networks and Complexity,
    August 31-Sep 1, 2006, Athens, Greece.

  • MASS 2006: The Third IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems,
    October 9 - 12, 2006, Vancouver, Canada.

  • A Conference in Honor of Thomas I. Seidman: Advances in Control of Partial Differential Equations,
    Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, October 28-29, 2006.

  • The Croucher Foundation Advanced Study Institute: Wireless Sensor Networks,
    City University of Hong Kong, December 4-8,2006.

  • Mathematical Challenges and Opportunities in Sensor Networking,
    Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics, Los Angeles, Jan 8-12, 2007.

  • ConCom: Control over Communication Channels,
    April 16-20 2007, Limassol, Cyprus.

  • IEEE Infocomm: 6th Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications
    6-12 May, 2007 Anchorage, Alaska, USA

  • IEEE Communication Theory Workshop,
    Sedona, Arizona, May 20-23, 2007.

  • The 29th Finnish Summer School on Probability Theory,
    Nagu/Nauvo, Nagu Gammelgård, Finland, June 4-8, 2007.

  • DCOSS '07: International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems.
    Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 18-20, 2007.

  • First International Workshop on Information Theory for Sensor Networks (WITS 2007).
    Santa Fe, New Mexico, 20, 2007.

  • International Conference on Stochastic Processes and Applications,
    Bangalore, India, July 16 - 21, 2007.

  • International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness (Qshine 2007),
    Vancouver, August 14-17, 2007.

  • 9th IFAC Workshop on Adaptation And Learning In Control And Signal Processing (ALCOSP'07),
    St. Petersburg, Russia, August 29-31, 2007.

  • 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control (ISIC2007),
    Singapore, October 1-3, 2007.

  • ROBOCOMM 2007: First International Conference on Robot Communication and Coordination,
    Athens, Greece, September 10-12, 2007.

  • WISARD 2008: A workshop in COMSWARE,
    Bangalore, Jan 5-6, 2008.

  • First ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec '08)
    Alexandria, VA, March 31--April 2008.

  • Second International Workshop on Fundamental Capacity Limits for Wireless Communications,
    University of Surrey, Guildford UK, April 10, 2008.

  • Sensor, Signal and Information Processing (SenSIP) Workshop,
    Sedona, Arizona, May 11-14, 2008

  • IISc Centenary Conference: Managing Complexity in a Distributed World,
    May 27-31, Bangalore, India

  • IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation,
    ZhangJiaJie City, Hunan, China, June 20-23, 2008.

  • Stochastic Networks Conference,
    École Normale Supérieure, Paris, June 23-28, 2008

  • 17th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2008).
    St. Thomas U.S. Virgin Islands, August 4-8, 2008.

  • IISc Centenary Conference ,
    Bangalore, December 13-16, 2008.

  • 10th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking - ICDCN 2009.
    Hyderabad, January 3-6, 2009.

  • The First International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS 2009). ,
    Bangalore, January 5-10, 2009.

  • International Symposium on Probability Theory & Stochastic Processes in honour of Professor S.R.S. Varadhan.
    February 6-9, 2009, Department of Mathematics, Cochin University of Science & Technology, Kochi.

  • Advances in Discrete Event, Nonlinear and Stochastic Systems Modeling and Control: Symposium in Honor of Steve Marcus.
    Univ. of Maryland, April 18, 2009.

  • ACM MobiHoc S3 Workshop,
    New Oreans, May 18, 2009.

  • Control Frontiers Workshop: A Workshop to Honor Petar Kokotovic.
    Santa Barbara, California, May 28-29, 2009.

  • Mathematical Foundations of Complex Networked Information Systems.
    June 22 - June 26, 2009, Verres (AO), Italy.

  • 3rd HYCON PhD School on Networked Control Systems.
    Siena, July 7-9, 2009.

  • 2009 IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering.
    Bangalore, August 22-25, 2009.

  • Paths Ahead in the Science of Information and Decision Systems,
    Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, November 12-14, 2009.

  • 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and 28th Chinese Control Conference.
    Shanghai, December 16-18, 2009.

  • The Second International Conference On Communication Systems And Networks (Comsnets),
    Bengaluru, India, Jan 5-10, 2010.

  • Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Stochastic Processes in Communication Sciences.
    Cambridge, UK, Jan 11-July 2, 2010.

    • Courses

    Other Links

  • Wireless/Mobile Networks Interview
  • Computer Science Hot Paper Interview
  • Report of Panel on Future Directions in Control, Dynamics, and Systems
  • Some other links

    • Illini Table Tennis Club

  • Illini Table Tennis Club - Winners of the 2002 National Collegiate (NCTTA) Championships.

    • Whereabouts

  • Email: prkumarATillinoisDOTedu
  • Telephone: (217) 333-7476
  • Postal Address:
    Univ. of Illinois
    CSL
    1308 W. Main St.
    Urbana, IL 61801-2307
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  • Fax: (217) 244-2352
  • Secretaries: Jana: (217) 244-1654. Or Becky: (217) 333-0282.
  • Group: Decision and Control Lab in CSL
  • Office Location: Room 149 Coordinated Science Laboratory
  • Campus Mailing Address: 149 CSL Bldg, MC-228
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