Swarun Kumar
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Swarun Kumar is an assistant professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering with a courtesy appointment in Computer Science. His research focuses on building next-generation wireless network protocols and services. He leads the Emerging Wireless Technologies (WiTech) lab at CMU. He received the George Sprowls Award for best Ph.D. thesis in computer science at MIT and the President of India gold medal at IIT Madras.
The Future of Connected Devices
Education
2015 Ph.D., Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2010 BS, Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Affiliations
Research Interests
- Applications of security and privacy
- cyber physical systems security and privacy
- cyberphysical systems (CPS)
- data/network science systems
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- IoT security and privacy
- mobile and app security and privacy
- mobile systems
- mobility
- network security
- secure systems
- social networks security and privacy
- systems security
- wireless networks
Media mentions
Popular Mechanics
Sekar and Kumar quoted on security
CyLab/ECE’s Vyas Sekar and Swarun Kumar were quoted in Popular Mechanics on how outdated technology could pose a security risk.
Association for Computing Machinery
Kumar awarded 2021 SIGBED Early Career Researcher Award
ECE’s Swarun Kumar was selected as the winner for the 2021 SIGBED Early Career Researcher Award. This award recognizes outstanding contributions by early career investigators in the area of embedded, real-time, and cyber-physical systems.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
Third round of Secure and Private IoT Initiative funded projects announced
Carnegie Mellon CyLab’s Secure and Private IoT Initiative (IoT@CyLab) has announced its third round of funding, which will support 12 Internet of Things (IoT)-related projects for one year.
Lifewire
Kumar quoted on affordable 5G
ECE’s Swarun Kumar was quoted in Lifewire on why affordable 5G is so important.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
IoT@CyLab sharpens focus on Industrial IoT
Carnegie Mellon’s Secure and Private IoT initiative (IoT@CyLab) has recognized the so-called Industrial IoT (IIoT) as the next big challenge in IoT security.
TechRepublic
Kumar discussed the future of 5G
ECE’s Swarun Kumar was featured in a TechRepublic article about the future of 5G and his experience with remote teaching.
CMU Engineering
Detecting wireless interference
ECE researchers were awarded a $1M NSF grant to investigate a system that allows devices to scan wide bandwidths to avert interference.
TechTarget
Kumar 5G commentary featured in TechTarget
ECE’s Swarun Kumar was quoted in TechTarget on the benefits of deploying 5G on manufacturing floors. He advised businesses to evaluate all facets of the technology, including the number of devices they would need and the required latency, not just higher speed.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
Jin receives 2020 UbiComp Outstanding Student Award
Haojian Jin, a fifth year Ph.D. student, received the Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award during the virtual UbiComp 2020 awards ceremony.
Gizmodo
Kumar, Rowe, and students featured on radar research
ECE’s Swarun Kumar, Anthony Rowe, Akarsh Prabhakara, and Vaibhav Singh’s research on using radar to track tire wear was featured in Gizmodo.
CMU Engineering
Sensing tire wear
Researchers propose how we can we measure and monitor tire wear with tire wear sensors, increasing safety on the road, saving drivers money, and ultimately, saving lives.
Consumer Reports
Kumar quoted on wireless headphones
ECE’s Swarun Kumar was quoted in Consumer Reports on how true wireless headphones work