Kuo completed his BS, MS and PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

After earning his PhD, his first job was as assistant professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, where he taught undergraduate and graduate courses and worked part-time at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ.

During the period 1968–1971, he and his colleague, Norman Abramson created ALOHANET, which used a new random-access protocol to implement the first wireless networks in the early Internet.

Today the random-access protocol is used in all forms of wireless communications, including Ethernet, iPhones, Wi-Fi, and Satellite Networks.

Dr. Kuo worked for 20 years in two major research establishments, Bell Labs, and SRI International (formerly Stanford Research Institute), and consulted in many companies, such as IBM, General Electric, the US Defense Department and Navy, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories.

At Bell Labs he was a Member of the Technical Staff (MTS) in the Research Division working for Maurice Karnaugh.

For two years he served as a special consultant to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy on the High-Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) initiative.

From 1975 to 1977, Dr Kuo worked in the Pentagon as the Director of Information Systems in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

A review in IEEE Transaction of Communications states: “Few professional level books have had so profound impact.

He also worked with Tsinghua University to develop the Chinese Education and Research Network (CERNET).

Franklin has written several books related to networks, protocols, computer communications and multimedia.

Some of his texts were used as graduate textbooks at universities for teaching subjects related to computer communications and networks.