During August 2022 to August 2025, Mohan Kumar was on assignment to the National Science Foundation (NSF) as a Program Director in the Computer and Network Systems (CNS) Division of the Computer Information Science and Engineering Directorate.  He was responsible for more than 30 Industry University Cooperative Research Centers (IUCRCs) funded by the NSF and various Industries. For a brief period he also served as the acting division director of CNS. 

Since Fall 2025, he is engaged in teaching and research, in the department of Computer Science. 

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 is a co-founder of the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), a premier  international conference with CORE A* rating. 

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 34. 

Currently he is leading a NSF funded research a project on Pervasive Awareness.