SBC Presidential Fellowship Awarded
Santosh Kumar, a CSE Ph. D. Candidate, has been awarded the prestigious
SBC Presidential Fellowship by the graduate school of the Ohio State University.
This award, given each year to selected senior Ph. D. students across the university,
recognizes outstanding scholarship and research ability.
For Santosh, this award recognizes his foundational contribution to the issue
of coverage in wireless sensor networks, which were reported in two of his papers, both published in the extremely-selective ACM MobiCom conference in the years 2004 and 2005. Santosh is the first student from the department to have published
a paper in this highly-prestigious conference whose acceptance rate is among the
lowest of all the conferences and journals in Computer Science. In addition to
wireless sensor networks, Santosh also works actively in the area of software
engineering and distributed systems, focusing on the issue of modular verification
of concurrent systems. Santosh has also been an active entrepreneur. In 2001,
he led the OConnect team to win second prize at the $100,000 OSU Business Plan
Competition.
Santosh received an M.S. in Computer and Information Science from the Ohio State
University in 2002 and a B. Tech. with honors in Computer Science and Engineering
from the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (IT-BHU), India, in 1998. From 1998-2000, Santosh worked as a software engineer in Siemens Communications Software, Bangalore. His advisor is Ten-Hwang (Steve) Lai.