Franklin F.
Kuo, a Chinese-born American computer scientist and academic, died on April 14, 2026. He was 91.
Born in Wuhan, China, on April 22, 1934, Kuo came to the United States in 1950 and finished high school in New York City the following year. He earned his BS, MS and PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where his doctoral adviser was Mac Van Valkenburg. Kuo taught at Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, the University of Hawaii, Stanford University, Jiao Tong University and the University of Mannheim. He also authored eight books on network theory and computer network communications.
Franklin F. Kuo, 91, Chinese-born American computer scientist and academic.