Amit Kumar is Professor in the department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University, New York. Prior to joining IIT Delhi, he worked as a member of technical staff at Bell Laboratories, New Jersey and has held several visiting professor positions at Microsoft Research India, IBM Research India and Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Germany. He has published over eighty research articles and holds five patents. His areas of interest include design of algorithms, approximation algorithms, computer networks and network management and routing.