Rajiv Kumar received a Bachelor of Technology from College of Technology, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pant Nagar, India in 1994. He received his M.Tech. from NIT Kurukshetra (formerly REC, Kurukshetra), India in 2001. He received his PhD degree from NIT Kurukshetra in the year 2010. His areas of interest in research are networks and systems.