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
Scott Institute
CMU Engineering faculty awarded Scott Institute seed grants
Eight research projects lead by CMU Engineering faculty have been awarded 2020 Seed Grants for Energy Research by the Scott Institue for Energy Innovation.
CMU Engineering
Engineering faculty receive CAREER awards
Four College of Engineering faculty members have been awarded CAREER awards by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
CMU Engineering
Second round of Secure and Private IoT Initiative funded projects announced
Carnegie Mellon CyLab’s Secure and Private IoT Initiative (IoT@CyLab) has announced its second round of funding, which will support ten IoT-related projects for one year.
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Kumar awarded for LP-WANs work
ECE’s Swarun Kumar was awarded the CAREER Award by the National Science Foundation for his work on low-power wide-area networks.
Consumer Reports
Kumar comments on the next leap in wireless charging
ECE’s Swarun Kumar was quoted in Consumer Reports on wireless charging and what hurdles must be overcome before making this technology a reality.
CMU Engineering
PushID: Pushing the limits of commercial RFIDs
Swarun Kumar’s lab has created PushID, a tracking system that may just be the answer to never losing anything again.
CMU Engineering
First round of Secure and Private IoT Initiative funded projects announced
CyLab’s Secure and Private IoT Initiative (IoT@CyLab) has broken ground as the first round of funded proposals have been announced. Twelve selected projects will be funded for one year, and results will be presented at the IoT@CyLab annual summit next year.
CMU Engineering
Creating shape-aware surfaces
WiSh, a shape-sensing technology, could shape how we interact with virtual reality and how we create smart cities.
The Washington Post
Kumar discusses impact of next-generation wireless technology
ECE’s Swarun Kumar spoke with The Washington Post about the various ways in which 5G technology will redefine the future, changing industries from architecture to the Internet of Things.
Popular Science
Kumar quoted on standard Wi-Fi mesh networks
ECE’s Swarun Kumar was quoted in Popular Science about whether industry players would standardize their mesh networks to be functional with devices of different vendors.
Popular Science
Kumar comments on the use of aluminum foil to enhance Wi-Fi Signals
According to ECE’s Swarun Kumar in an article for Popular Science, using aluminum foil to enhance our Wi-Fi connection “makes perfect sense” in principle because “like light, Wi-Fi signals are reflected by metals.”
CMU Engineering
Radio City in Silicon Valley
CMU-SV/CyLab's Bob Iannucci explains how the future of radio technology will take us beyond Wifi and LTE receivers to a whole new computing platform.