Jim Kurose Department of Computer Science  University of Massachusetts  Amherst MA 01003 USA  kurose@cs.umass.edu phone: 413-545-1585 FAX: 413-545-1249

Jim Kurose received a B.A. degree in physics from Wesleyan University and his Ph.D. degree in computer science from Columbia University. He is a Distinguished University Professor (and past chairman) in the Department of  Computer Science and Executive Associate Dean of the College of Natural Sciences at the University of Massachusetts. Professor Kurose has been a Visiting Scientist at IBM Research, INRIA, Institut EURECOM , the University of Paris, LIP6, and Thomson Research Labs.

His research interests include network protocols and architecture, network measurement, sensor networks, multimedia communication, and modeling and performance evaluation. Dr. Kurose has served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Communications and was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. He has been active in the program committees for IEEE Infocom, ACM SIGCOMM, and ACM SIGMETRICS conferences for a number of years, and has served as Technical Program Co-Chair for these conferences. He has won several conference best paper awards and received the ACM Sigcomm Test of Time Award.

He is the recipient of the Outstanding Teacher Award from the National Technological University (8 times), the Outstanding Teacher Award from the College of Natural Science and Mathematics at the University of Massachusetts, the Outstanding Teaching Award of the Northeast Association of Graduate Schools, and the IEEE Taylor Booth Education Medal. He was one of the founders of the Commonwealth Information Technology Initiative (CITI). He has twice received an IBM Faculty Development Award, and a Lilly Teaching Fellowship. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association and is a member of the Commomwealth of Massachusetts' IT Collaborative. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the ACM.

With Keith Ross, he is the co-author of the textbook, Computer Networking, a top down approach (5th edition)  published by Addison-Wesley Longman.

November 2009