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 currently Distinguished University Professor (and past chairman) in the Department of  Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts, where he is also co-director of the Networking Research Laboratory and Associate Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA).   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 computer network protocols and architecture, network measurement, sensor networks, multimedia communication, and modeling and performance evaluation. He is the author of more than 200 technical papers in these and other areas. He is interested in both the theory and the design, implementation and experimentation of networked systems. 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, ACM SIGMETRICS and the ACM Internet Measurement conferences for a number of years, and has served as Technical Program Co-Chair for these conferences.  He is also a member of the ACM Education Council.

He is the eight-time recipient of the Outstanding Teacher Award from the National Technological University (NTU), the recipient of the Outstanding Teacher Award from the College of Natural Science and Mathematics at the University of Massachusetts, the recipient of the 1996 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), and is also interested in system and pedagogical aspects of instructional technology. He has been the recipient of a GE Fellowship, IBM Faculty Development Award, and a Lilly Teaching Fellowship. 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 featuring the Internet (4th edition)"  published by Addison-Wesley Longman.

• Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere: Challenges in End-to-End Sensor Networking:

  The CASA project is an NSF Engineering Research Center investigating the design and implementation of a dense network of low-power meteorological radars whose goal is to collaboratively and adaptively sense the lowest few kilometers of the earth...

• Introduction to Wireless Networks:

  This talk provides a tutorial introduction to mobile wireless data networks.  We begin with an overview of the evolution of wireless technologies and networks.  We then begin a “bottom-up” study of wireless networks, starti...

• Networking: successes, new challenges, and an expanding waist as the field approaches 40:

  The field of computer networking is 40 years old, arguably approaching middle age (at least in human years). In this time, networks have grown from research curiosities to become a key part of the global communications infrastructure. The overal...

• Towards a Next Generation Internet: ...