P. R. Kumar
Professor and College of Engineering Chair in Computer Engineering
Texas A&M University.
Office: Room 331E WERC
Office Phone Number: (979)862-3376
Email: prk@tamu.edu

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Education:

Interest Areas:

Wireless Networks, Sensor Networks, Convergence with Control. Belief Propagation/Sensor Networks.Communication Networks. Semiconductor Manufacturing. Manufacturing Systems. Systems Theory. Control. Adaptive Systems. Learning. Neural Networks. Optimization. Simulated Annealing. Stochastic Systems. Financial Economics.

Selected Publications:

1. I-Hong Hou and P. R. Kumar, "A Survey of Recent Results on Real-Time Wireless Networking." Proceedings of Real-time Wireless for Industrial Applications, CPS Week, Chicago, April 11, 2011.
2. Zheng Zeng, Yan Gao, and P. R. Kumar, "SOFA: A Sleep-Optimal Fair-Attention scheduler for the Power-Saving Mode of WLANs." To appear in International Conference On Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2011), June 21-24, 2011, Minneapolis.
3. Zheng Zeng, Yan Gao, P. R. Kumar and Kun Tan, "CHAIN: Introducing Minimum Controlled Coordination into Random Access MAC." pp. 2669-2677, IEEE INFOCOM 2011, Shanghai, April 10-15, 2011.
4. Yan Gao, Chee Wei Tan, Ying Huang, Zheng Zeng and P. R. Kumar, "Feasibility and Optimization of Delay Guarantees for Non-homogeneous Flows in IEEE 802.11 WLANs." pp. 2660-2668, INFOCOM 2011, Shanghai, April 10-15, 2011.
5. Kyoung-Dae Kim, Sayan Mitra and P. R. Kumar, "Computing Bounded epsilon-Reach Set with Finite Precision Computations for a Class of Linear Hybrid Automata." To appear in Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC 2011), Chicago, April 12Ð14, 2011.
6. M. Anand and P. R. Kumar, "Estimating the state of a Markov chain over a noisy communication channel: A bound and an encoder." Proceedings of 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. Atlanta, December 15-17, 2010.