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Professor and Thomas
G. Pine Faculty Fellow Director, Multimedia & Wireless
Networks Research Group Electrical and |
Dr.
Sunil Kumar received his B.E. (Electronics Engineering) from National
Institute of Technology, Surat (India) in 1988, and the M.E. and
Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Birla
Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani
( 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), Dr.
Kumar is a recipient of several awards and honors, including the SDSU Alumni Outstanding Faculty Award,
President’s Leadership Fund Award for Faculty Excellence, and Distinguished Alumnus Award
from his alma mater NIT (Surat, India). Dr.
Kumar's research interests include (i) QoS-aware and cross-layer protocols for wireless ad hoc,
mesh, airborne, sensor, cognitive radio, and cellular networks, including
directional communication and spectrum resource optimization, (ii) Error resilient
multimedia compression techniques for wireless transmission, including HEVC and
H.264/AVC, and (iii) applications of machine learning
techniques in wireless networks. |