The Satya N. Atluri Award
The Satya N. Atluri Award is a Medal awarded by ICCES (International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences) and the Tech Science Press to an individual who has had a significant impact on the world of engineering, the sciences, and commerce, and the well-being of the society at large as a result.
The recipient of the 2019 The Satya N. Atluri Award is
Professor Anurag Kumar, the Director ( i.e., the President) of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
For his ”widely acclaimed seminal work on communications networks and distributed systems, and for his efforts in bringing India’s premier university, the Indian Institute of Science to world-wide recognition”
Prof. Anurag Kumar, B.Tech (1977) IIT Kanpur, PhD (1981) Cornell Univ., was a Member of Technical Staff in AT&T Bell Laboratories (1981-1988), before returning to India and joining the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) as a faculty member in the ECE Department. He became a Professor in 1996, and is the Director of the Institute since 2014. He has published almost 200 peer reviewed papers in journals and conferences, in the area of communications networking and distributed systems.
Prof. Kumar returned to India at a time when the telecommunications revolution was just taking off and the Internet was just a fledgling network. He was one of the leaders of the ERNET project that established India’s first nationwide Internet, that carried academic traffic for over a decade. Prof. Kumar was one of the early researchers in India in the mathematical approach to understanding and designing modern communication networks. He has led the authorship of two major text books on communication networking that have been used around the world.
He was the 1977 President’s Gold Medallist in IIT Kanpur. He received the IISc Alumni Award for Excellence in Engineering Research for 2008. He has been elected Fellow of the IEEE, the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), the Indian Academy of Science (IASc), and The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). During the period 2005-2009, he was an area editor for the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, and was then on its steering committee from 2010-2014. He received the 2015 Vasvik Award for Information Technology, and the 2017 IEI-IEEE Award for Engineering Excellence. He is a recipient of the J.C. Bose National Fellowship, awarded by the Department of Science Technology, for the period 2011-2021.
The recent recipients of
The Satya N. Atluri Award include:
Chancellor Henry Yang, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA (The longest serving Chancellor (25 years) of the UC System)
Chancellor John A White, University of Arkansas, USA (who put University of Arkansas on the map, with his $300 Millions fundraising from a single family)
Ratan Tata, Chairman, Tata Sons, Mumbai, India
Professor Subra Suresh, President, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Guangjing Cao, President, China Three Gorges Project Corporation (CTGPC), China
Professor Demosthenes Polyzos, Vice Rector, University of Patras, Greece
