Krishan Sabnani
Krishan Sabnani (born 1954 in New Delhi) is an Indian-American networking researcher and Research VP responsible for research on NFV and web communications at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs in New Jersey.[1] He also manages internal awards such as Bell Labs Fellow. He was Vice President of Networking Research at Bell Labs from Jan. 2000 to Sept. 2013. In that role, he managed all networking research in Bell Labs, comprising nine departments in seven countries: USA, France, Germany, Ireland, India, Belgium, and South Korea.
Upon his graduation in 1981, he joined Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey as a Member of Technical Staff and was promoted to Department Head in 1993. He was named VP of Networking Research in 2000. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University and an honorary professor at IIT Delhi.
Krishan has made many seminal contributions to the Internet infrastructure design, protocol design, and wireless networks. Krishan (with T. V. Lakshman and T. Woo) made a breakthrough in Internet re-design. The main idea behind this work was to separate control functions and complex software from the forwarding portions on Internet routers. This work made it possible for forwarding technologies (e.g., different link layer and switching protocols) to evolve and be deployed independently from control protocols (e.g., routing, security). This contribution is a precursor to the current Software Defined Networking (SDN) revolution. A patent based on this work won the 2010 Edison Patent Award.
Honors and Awards
- 2005 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award[2]
- 2005 IEEE W. Wallace McDowell Award.[3]
- The 2005, 2009 and 2010 Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award from the R&D Council of New Jersey.
- Inducted into the NJ Inventors of Fame in 2014[4]
- Bell Labs Fellow,[1] fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)[5] and Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM).[6]
- 2005 Distinguished Alumni Award from Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India[7]
- 1991 Leonard G. Abraham Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Communications Society for "Design and Implementation of a High-Speed Transport Protocol," published in IEEE Trans. on Communications, Nov. 1990
- President of India’s Gold Medal, 1975 . Institution of Engineers (India) Gold Medal, 1975.
References
- 1 2 "K.K. Sabnani's official bio".
- ↑ "IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award".
- ↑ "W. Wallace McDowell Award". Archived from the original on September 29, 2007.
- ↑ "2014 Award Winners | njinvent".
- ↑ "IEEE IEEE - Fellow Class of 1991".
- ↑ "ACM: Fellows Award / Krishnan K. Sabnani".
- ↑ "IIT Delhi: Distinguished Alumni Awards".