Krishan Sabnani

Who is Krishan Sabnani?

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 United States, 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.