Victor Frost

Dr. Victor S. Frost joined the EECS in 1982 and is currently the Dan F. Servey Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Professor Frost is a Fellow of the IEEE and received a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the NSF in 1984. He was the chair of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at the University of Kansas (KU) from 2014-2019.  For two years (Feb. 2009-Feb. 2011) he was a Program Director at the National Science Foundation in Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) - Computer Network Systems Division (CNS). As a Program director Dr. Frost contributed to the creation of NSF’s Future Internet Architecture program.   He was the Director of the KU Telecommunications and Information Technology Center (ITTC) for over ten years. From 1987 to 1996 Dr. Frost was the Director of the KU Telecommunications and Information Sciences Laboratory.  His research has been supported by government agencies, including, NSF, DARPA, Rome Labs, ORNL, ONR and NASA.  Dr. Frost has been involved in research for numerous corporations, including Sprint, NCR, Nortel, Telesat Canada, AT&T, McDonnell Douglas, DEC, and COMDISCO Systems. He has been principal investigator on over thirty-five research efforts and involved as co-investigator on over forty projects. As a result of those efforts he has published over 140 journal articles and conference paper s. Dr. Frost was listed twice Kansas City Star “Tech 50” in the 2000 and 2002.