Prof. Anurag Kumar is currently a professor at the Department of Electrical Communication and the chairman of Electrical Sciences Division at Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India. He holds a PhD from Cornell University, obtained after graduating from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He worked at Bell Labs in the US before joining as Indian Institute of Science faculty. He has an Erdos number of 4 (Erdos-> Joel Spencer-> Michael Mitzenmacher-> Flavio Bonomi->Anurag Kumar). His main research area used to be TCP/IP, but now he has moved into wireless networking focusing on sensor networks
From 1989 to 2001, he coordinated the project ERNET for networking the major education and research institutions in India. This project was instrumental in bringing network connectivity to Indian students and researchers in the late 80s and early 90s.
He has been an elected Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering since 1999 and an elected Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy since 2006. He is also a fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences from 2010. As of January 1, 2006, Anurag Kumar is an elected Fellow of the IEEE.
On October 26, 2009, Anurag Kumar was announced as a co-winner of the CDAC-ACCS Foundation Award for 2009 by the Advanced Computing and Communications Society.