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Dean James F. Kurose

James F. Kurose is Dean of the College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science.

Dr. Kurose received a BA in physics from Wesleyan University and his PhD in computer science from Columbia University. He joined the UMass Amherst Computer Science department in 1984, where he is currently the co-director of the Networking Research Laboratory and Associate Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA), and served as a past department chair. Professor Kurose has been a Visiting Scientist at IBM Research, INRIA, Institut EURECOM, the University of Paris, and the Thomson Paris Research Lab.

Dr. Kurose's research interests include network protocols and architecture, network measurement, sensor networks, multimedia communication, and modeling and performance evaluation. He 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, and ACM SIGMETRICS conferences for a number of years, and has served as Technical Program Co-Chair for these conferences. He has received a number of awards for his research, including the ACM Sigcomm Test of Time Award.

Dr. Kurose has also been recognized for his teaching: in addition to receiving the Outstanding Teacher Award from the National Technological University (NTU) eight times, he has also received NSM's Outstanding Teacher Award, the 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 (4th edition), published by Addison-Wesley Longman.