Krishan Sabnani

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Krishan Sabnani (b. 1954 in New Delhi) is an Indian-American engineer and Vice President of the Networking Research Laboratory at Bell Labs in New Jersey^[1]. He manages several research teams in US, UK, 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. He has two children, Ilya and Kirk. Kirk aspires to become like Ronald Reagan 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.

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.

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Krishan has received the 2005 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award^[2] and the 2005 IEEE W. Wallace McDowell Award^[3]. He is the only person ever to receive both awards. Krishan is a Bell Labs Fellow ^[1], a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)^[4] and the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)^[5]. 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,^[6] 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.