Revisiting Exploration versus Exploitation: Adaptive Control and Multi-Armed Bandits

P. R. Kumar’s current focus includes Cyberphysical Systems, Security, Privacy, Unmanned Aerial System Traffic Management, 5G, Wireless Networks, Machine Learning, and Power Systems. He studied at IIT Madras and Washington Univ., St. Louis. He was a faculty member in the Math Dept at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (1977-84), and ECE and CSL at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1985-2011). He is currently at Texas A&M Univ., where he is a University Distinguished Professor, a Regents Professor, and holds the College of Engineering Chair in Computer Engineering. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, The World Academy of Sciences, and Indian National Academy of Engineering. He was awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa by ETH, Zurich. He received the IEEE Field Award for Control Systems, Eckman Award of AACC, Ellersick Prize of IEEE ComSoc, Outstanding Contribution Award of ACM SIGMOBILE, Infocom Achievement Award, SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Paper Award, and COMSNETS Outstanding Contribution Award. He is a Fellow of IEEE and ACM. He is a Gandhi Distinguished Visiting Professor at IIT Bombay, an Honorary Professor at IIT Hyderabad, and was Leader of a Guest Chair Professor Group at Tsinghua University, Beijing, He was awarded a Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Madras, Alumni Achievement Award from Washington University, St. Louis, and Drucker Eminent Faculty Award from UIUC.