Congratulations Dr Rajiv Laroia and Dr Krishan K Sabani!
Dr Rajiv Laroia and Dr Krishan K Sabani two distinguished Alumni of IIT Delhi have been inducted into the prestigious National Academy of Engineering (NAE). The NAE has elected 106 new members and 23 international members, announced NAE President John L. Anderson today.
Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to “the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of engineering”. Individuals in the newly elected class will be formally inducted during the NAE’s annual meeting on Oct. 3, 2021. The NAE has more than 2,000 national and international members.
Dr Rajiv Laroia is the co-founder & CTO of Light. He received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi in 1985 and obtained his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1992.
Rajiv has been recognised for his contributions to adaptive multiuser orthogonal frequency division multiplexing for cellular voice and data systems. He began his career at AT&T Bell Labs and its successor, Lucent Technologies Bell Labs, where he was head of Bell Labs’ Digital Communications Research Department in the Wireless Research Center.
As a founder of Flarion Technologies (which was acquired by Qualcomm in 2006), Laroia and his team were the first to develop OFDMA based all-IP mobile broadband technology, which became the foundation for the LTE 4G wireless technology used by billions of phones globally today.
Laroia has won numerous industry awards, including the IEEE Industrial Innovation Award in 2013 and the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal in 2020. In 2007, he was awarded the IIT Delhi Distinguished Alumni Award.
Dr Krishan Sabnani is Research VP Emeritus and Ambassador-at-Large, Bell Labs/Nokia, an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, an honorary professor at IIT Delhi and a visiting scientist at The Johns Hopkins University. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi in 1975 and a PhD from Columbia University in New York in 1981.
Krishan is a networking researcher 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 which contributed to the current Software Defined Networking revolution. A patent based on this work won the 2010 Edison Patent Award.
Krishan 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. Krishan retired from Bell Labs in Jan 2017. On retirement he was appointed an Ambassador-at-large for Bell Labs – Krishan is the first person to receive this award.
Krishan received the 2005 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award and the 2005 IEEE W. Wallace McDowell Award. He is a Bell Labs Fellow, a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). He received President of India’s Gold Medal from IIT Delhi in 1975, the Institution of Engineers’ (India) Gold Medal in 1975 and the IIT Delhi Distinguished Alumni Award in 2005.
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