Dr. P. R. Kumar, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, delivered the keynote speech during the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Real Time Systems Symposium (RTSS).
During his speech, Kumar, holder of the College of Engineering Chair in Computer Engineering and a University Distinguished Professor, discussed “What Kinds of Deadline Guarantees Can Be Provided Over an Unreliable Medium Like Wireless.”
Kumar is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by ETH Zurich. He received the Outstanding Contribution Award of ACM SIGMOBILE, the IEEE Field Award for Control Systems, the Donald P. Eckman Award of the American Automatic Control Council and the Fred W. Ellersick Prize of the IEEE Communications Society.
Kumar is an ACM Fellow and a Fellow of IEEE. He was a guest chair professor and leader of the Guest Chair Professor Group on Wireless Communication and Networking at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He is an honorary professor at IIT Hyderabad. He is a D. J. Gandhi Distinguished Visiting Professor at IIT Bombay and a visiting Professor in the Robert Bosch Centre for Cyberphysical Systems at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He was also awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Madras, the Alumni Achievement Award from Washington University in St. Louis and the Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award from the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois.
IEEE RTSS is the premier conference in the area of real-time systems, presenting innovations in the field with respect to theory and practice.