Jim Kurose
Jim Kurose (born 1956) is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, in the College of Information and Computer Sciences. He was born in Greenwich, Connecticut. He earned a B.A. in physics from Wesleyan University and a Ph.D. in computer science from Columbia University in 1984. His main teaching area is computer networking, and he is the coauthor of the widely used textbook Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach. In 2020, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for his work on designing and analyzing network protocols for multimedia communication.
Kurose joined UMass Amherst as a computer science faculty member after earning his Ph.D. in 1984. He has been a visiting scientist at several institutions, including the University of Paris, Institut Eurecom, INRIA, Technicolor, and IBM Research. He has served on the Scientific Council of IMDEA Networks since 2007 and on the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association. Since January 2015, he has been on leave from UMass to serve as the Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), leading the CISE Directorate with an annual budget of more than $900 million. He also co-chairs the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council Committee on Technology, coordinating networking and IT research across federal agencies. He has received several awards.
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