In this talk, I will overview recent and on-going research project in three areas: network measurement (including wireless networks), robust routing, and sensor networks. I'll make a particular effort to identify areas for potential future research.
Jim Kurose received a B.A. degree in physics from Wesleyan University and his Ph.D. degree in computer science from Columbia University. He is currently a professor (and past chairman) in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts, where he is also co-director of the Networking Research Laboratory and Associate Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA). Professor Kurose has been a Visiting Scientist at IBM Research, INRIA, and Institut EURECOM.
His research interests include network protocols and architecture, network measurement, sensor networks, multimedia communication, and modeling and performance evaluation. Dr. Kurose has served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Communications and was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. He has been active in the program committees for IEEE Infocom, ACM SIGCOMM, and ACM SIGMETRICS conferences for a number of years, and has served as Technical Program Co-Chair for these conferences.
He is the eight-time recipient of the Outstanding Teacher Award from the National Technological University (NTU), the recipient of the Outstanding Teacher Award from the College of Natural Science and Mathematics at the University of Massachusetts, the recipient of the 1996 Outstanding Teaching Award of the Northeast Association of Graduate Schools, and the IEEE Taylor Booth Education Medal. He was one of the founders of the Commonwealth Information Technology Initiative (CITI), and is also interested in system and pedagogical aspects of instructional technology. He has been the recipient of a GE Fellowship, IBM Faculty Development Award, and a Lilly Teaching Fellowship. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the ACM.
With Keith Ross, he is the co-author of the textbook, "Computer Networking, a top down approach featuring the Internet (2nd edition)" published by Addison-Wesley Longman.