Dr. Prem Kumar joined DSO as a program manager in 2013. He is currently a Program Manager in the Defense Sciences Office at DARPA where he is overseeing programs in the physical sciences area. He is interested in pushing the scientific and technological boundaries in domains where the basic sciences of physics, chemistry, and biology intersect with engineering, signal processing, and computation.
He is on leave from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., where he holds the AT&T Professorship in the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. His home department is Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and he holds a courtesy appointment in the department of Physics and Astronomy. Prior to joining DARPA, he was director of the Center for Photonic Communication and Computing and head of the Solid State and Photonics Division in the EECS Department.
He has been a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Photonics Society. In 2004, he received the International Quantum Communications Award from Tamagawa University in Tokyo, and in 2006 he received the Martin E. and Gertrude G. Walder Research Excellence Award from the Provost's office at Northwestern University
Dr. Kumar holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Physics from the State University of New York at Buffalo, a Master of Science in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, and a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Delhi. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals of the American Physical Society, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and The Optical Society, and is a fellow of the AAAS, APS, IEEE, IOP (UK), OSA and SPIE.
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