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Jim Kurose


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

Jim Kurose received a B.A. degree in physics from Wesleyan University in 1978 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Columbia University in 1980 and 1984, respectively. He is currently a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts, where he is also co-director of the Networking Research Laboratory and director of the Multimedia Systems Laboratory. He was a Visiting Scientist is the Communications Department at IBM Research during the 1990/91 academic year.

His research interests include real-time and multimedia communication, network and operating system support for servers, and modeling and performance evaluation. Dr. Kurose is the past Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Communications and of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. He has been active in the program committees for both the IEEE Infocom conference and the ACM SIGCOMM conference for a number of years.

He is the six-time recipient of the Outstanding Teacher Award from the National Technological University (NTU), the recipient of the Outstanding Teacher Award from the College of Science and Natural Mathematics at the University of Massachusetts, and the recipient of the 1996 Outstanding Teaching Award of the Northeast Association of Graduate Schools. He has been the recipient of a GE Fellowship, IBM Faculty Development Award, and a Lilly Teaching Fellowship. He is a member of the IEEE, ACM, Phi Beta Kappa, Eta Kappa Nu, and Sigma Xi.

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