Krishan Sabnani

Krishan Sabnani (b. 1954 in New Delhi) is an Indian-American engineer and Senior Vice President of the Networking Research Laboratory at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs in New Jerseycite web|url=http://www1.bell-labs.com/user/kks/|title= K.K. Sabnani's official bio] . 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. He has also done extensive personal research in data and wireless networking. Krishan is also a Adjunct Professor at Columbia University.cite web|url=https://www.ee.columbia.edu/fac-bios/ksabnani/faculty.html|title= K.K. Sabnani's Columbia bio]

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 Awardcite web|url=http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/about/awards/sums/sumner.html|title=IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award] and the 2005 IEEE W. Wallace McDowell Awardcite web|url=http://www.computer.org/portal/site/ieeecs/menuitem.c5efb9b8ade9096b8a9ca0108bcd45f3/index.jsp?&pName=ieeecs_level1&path=ieeecs/about/awards&file=WallaceMcD_recipients.xml&xsl=generic.xsl&|title=W. Wallace McDowell Award] . 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)cite web|url=http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/fellows/Chronology/1991.html#S|title=IEEE IEEE - Fellow Class of 1991] and the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)cite web|url=http://fellows.acm.org/fellow_citation.cfm?id=6154314&srt=alpha&alpha=S|title=ACM: Fellows Award / Krishnan K. Sabnani] . 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,cite web|url=http://indest.iitd.ac.in/alumni/awards.html#krishan|title=IIT Delhi: Distinguished Alumni Awards] and has also won the 2005 Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award from the R&D Council of New Jersey. He currently holds 37 patents and has published more than 70 papers.

Personal

Krishan has two children, Ilya and Kirk. Kirk is a student at Johns Hopkins University and aspires to become like Ronald Reagan and Bobby Jindal and in his spare time enjoys playing Halo on his Xbox 360 and watching 24; he is also a big fan of Trevor Yee. Krishan is married to Dr. Indu Sabnani, an oncologist and hematologist.

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