Kurose elected to board of Computing Research Association

Jim Kurose, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, has been elected to a three-year term on the board of directors of the Computer Research Association, a group of more than 900 North American organizations active in computing research.

CRA works with academic computer science and engineering departments, industrial and academic research laboratories and centers and affiliated professional societies to represent the computing research community and to effect change that benefits computing research and society.

Kurose’s research interests include computer network protocols and architecture, network measurement, sensor networks, multimedia communication, and network modeling and performance evaluation.

He co-directs the Networking Research Laboratory and is associate director of the National Science Foundation-supported Engineering Research Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere.

He is an eight-time recipient of the Outstanding Teacher Award from the National Technological University and has also received teaching awards from the Northeast Association of Graduate Schools and the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. He was also awarded the Taylor Booth Education Medal by Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).

Kurose is an elected fellow of the IEEE and the Association for Computing Machinery.

May 9, 2008.

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