Mohan Kumar
Department Chair
Mohan Kumar
Department Chair
Education
BS in Electrical Engineering, Bangalore University (India); MTech in Electronics and Ph.D. in Computer Science, Indian Institute of Science (India)
Bio
Mohan Kumar is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science at RIT since 2013. During the last 5 years, the computer science department, the largest at RIT, has made significant strides in many areas, including research output, and student graduations, persistence and diversity.
Mohan’s research interests include pervasive and mobile computing and parallel and distributed computing. He has published more than 180 articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings, and supervised 17 doctoral dissertations and 32 MS theses in the above areas. He has developed or co-developed: algorithms/architectures for service composition in pervasive environments; information acquisition, dissemination and processing in pervasive and sensor systems; and caching and prefetching in mobile, distributed, pervasive, and P2P systems. He has received research funding of over 7 million dollars as a PI or Co-PI in several projects funded by the NSF, The Air Force Research Laboratory, Texas ARP, the Australian Research Council (ARC) and the Defense Science and Technology Organization (Australia). His h-index is 29.
Mohan is one of the founding editors of the Elsevier’s Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal and is one of the area editors of Computer Communications. He has co-guest edited special issues of several leading international journals. He is a co-founder of the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom); served in different roles - he is currently serving in his second term as the chair of the Steering Committee. IEEE PerCom is established as the premier international conference on pervasive computing and communications. Mohan has played a major leadership role in building an international community comprising researchers, students and industry persons, working in pervasive computing and communications.
Currently Teaching
In the News
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October 9, 2020
Undergraduate computer science program ranked #52 out of 481 in first US News & World Report CS rankings
RIT’s computer science (CS) program is ranked #52 out of 481 undergraduate programs in the United States in recent rankings from US News & World Report. These are the first ever computer science-specific rankings by the publication, and RIT was the highest ranked program in Upstate and Western New York.
Select Scholarship
Office of Naval Research
Amount: $16500