Krishan Sabnani
Encyclopedia
Krishan Sabnani is an Indian-American engineer
and Senior Vice President of the Networking Research Laboratory at Alcatel-Lucent
Bell Labs
in New Jersey. He manages several research teams based in the US, UK, Ireland
, Belgium
, France
, Germany
, and India
. Krishan has worked on several systems projects in the fields of Internetworking and wireless networking, and has led successful transfers of research ideas to real products in Alcatel-Lucent and AT&T business units. His contributions have played a major role in modern mobile networks, and his recent breakthrough re-engineering of routers has launched a revolution in network designs. He has also done extensive personal research in data and wireless networking. Krishan is also an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University.
Krishan received his B.Tech in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India in 1975, and received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Columbia University, New York, in 1981.
. He is the only person ever to receive both awards. Krishan is a Bell Labs Fellow, a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). He received the 1991 Leonard G. Abraham Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Communications Society. Krishan received the 2005 Distinguished Alumni Award from Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India, and has also won the 2005, 2009 and 2010 Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award from the R&D Council of New Jersey. He currently holds more than 37 patents and has published more than 70 papers.
Engineer
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and Senior Vice President of the Networking Research Laboratory at Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent is a global telecommunications corporation, headquartered in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France. It provides telecommunications solutions to service providers, enterprises, and governments around the world, enabling these customers to deliver voice, data, and video services...
Bell Labs
Bell Labs
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in New Jersey. He manages several research teams based in the US, UK, Ireland
Ireland
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, Belgium
Belgium
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, France
France
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, Germany
Germany
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, and India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. Krishan has worked on several systems projects in the fields of Internetworking and wireless networking, and has led successful transfers of research ideas to real products in Alcatel-Lucent and AT&T business units. His contributions have played a major role in modern mobile networks, and his recent breakthrough re-engineering of routers has launched a revolution in network designs. He has also done extensive personal research in data and wireless networking. Krishan is also an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University.
Krishan received his B.Tech in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India in 1975, and received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Columbia University, New York, in 1981.
Awards
Krishan has received the 2005 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award and the 2005 IEEE W. Wallace McDowell AwardMcDowell Award
The W. Wallace McDowell Award is awarded by the IEEE Computer Society for outstanding recent theoretical, design, educational, practical, or other similar innovative contributions that fall within the scope of Computer Society interest...
. He is the only person ever to receive both awards. Krishan is a Bell Labs Fellow, a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). He received the 1991 Leonard G. Abraham Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Communications Society. Krishan received the 2005 Distinguished Alumni Award from Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India, and has also won the 2005, 2009 and 2010 Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award from the R&D Council of New Jersey. He currently holds more than 37 patents and has published more than 70 papers.