Picture of K. K. SabnaniKrishan K. Sabnani

Senior Vice President,
Networking Research Lab
Bell Laboratories

101 Crawfords Corner Road
Holmdel, New Jersey 07733-3030
Room 4E 608
Phone: (732) 949-3557
Fax: (732) 949-3930
kks@lucent.com


About K. K. Sabnani

Krishan Sabnani is Senior Vice President of the Networking Research Laboratory at Bell Labs in New Jersey. For the past 23 years Krishan has been a member of Bell Labs Research. Krishan has conceived and launched several systems projects in the areas of Internetworking and wireless networking, led successful transfers of research ideas to products in Lucent and AT&T business units and conducted extensive personal research in data and wireless networking. He has built organizations known for technical excellence by recruiting and coaching the best people in the industry.

Krishan has received the 2005 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award and the 2005 IEEE W. Wallace McDowell Award - the only person ever to receive both awards. Krishan is a Bell Labs Fellow. He is also a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). He received the Leonard G. Abraham Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Communications Society in 1991. Krishan will receive the 2005 Distinguished Alumni Award from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi, India. He has also won the 2005 Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award from the R&D Council of New Jersey. He holds 37 patents and has published more than 70 papers.

In his personal research, Krishan has made major contributions to the communications protocols area. He has designed several protocols such as SNR, RMTP, and Airmail. He has also made significant contributions to conformance test generation, protocol validation, automated converter generation, and reverse engineering.

Krishan received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Columbia University, New York, in 1981. He joined Bell Labs in 1981.

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