He received his Ph.D. from University of Sheffield, and M.Tech. from University of Roorkee (now, IIT - Roorkee) both in Computer Science & Engineering. He had been a faculty of CSE at IIT Kanpur and BITS Pilani. He had worked for National Semiconductors, Germany and DRDO, India. His main research interests include evolutionary algorithms & multiobjective combinatorial optimization, embedded & multimedia systems, and programming language & software engineering. He has published over 100 research articles in lead journals and conferences. He is a member of ACM, senior member of IEEE and a fellow of IETE. More info about him can be found at http://www.facweb.iitkgp.ernet.in/~rkumar/.