Ratnesh Kumar, Professor

Electrical & Computer Engineering
Iowa State University
2215 Coover Hall
Ames, IA 50011-3060
Tel: (515) 294-8523 (office); -2664 (secy)
Fax: (515) 294-8432
Email: rkumar AT iastate DOT edu

Dr. Ratnesh Kumar was born in Ranchi, India. He received the B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, in 1987, and the M.S. and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, Texas, in 1989 and 1991, respectively. From 1991-2002 he was on the faculty of University of Kentucky, and since 2002 he is on the faculty of the Iowa State University, where he is currently a Full Professor. He has held visiting positions at the Institute of Systems Research at the University of Maryland, the Applied Research Laboratory at the Pennsylvania State University, the NASA Ames Research Center, the Idaho National Laboratory (formerly, Argonne National Laboratory West), and the United Technologies Research Center.

He was a recipient of the Microelectronics and Computer Development (MCD) Fellowship from the University of Texas at Austin, and was awarded the Lalit Narain Das Memorial Gold Medal for the Best EE Student and the Ratan Swarup Memorial Gold Medal for the Best All-rounder Student from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, India. He is a recipient of the NSF Research Initiation Award, Summer Fellowship from NASA and ANL, and Sabbatical Fellowship from ARL. He is a coauthor of the book Modeling and Control of Logical Discrete Event Systems. He is or was an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Journal of Discrete Event Dynamical Systems, International Journal of Discrete Event Control Systems, and IEEE Control Systems Society. He regularly serves on the program committee for the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, American Control Conference, the International Workshop on Discrete Event Systems, and the International Workshop on Software Cybernetics. He is a Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to discrete event system modeling, control, diagnosis and applications.

CV (in pdf)

Last updated on 01/05/2010