Kumar Sivarajan Ph.D

Kumar Sivarajan Ph.D General Information

Biography

Dr. Kumar Sivarajan is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Technology Officer at Tejas Networks. Prior to Tejas Networks, Kumar was an associate professor in the electrical communication engineering department, at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Prior to that he has also worked with the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York. Kumar is co-author of the textbook 'Optical Networks: A Practical Perspective' published in February 1998. He is afFellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, an associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences, and a recipient of the Swarnajayanti Fellowship from the department of science and technology, and the 2004 Global Indus technovator award from the India business club at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also a recipient of the institute of electrical and electronics engineers, Fortescue Fellowship and institute of electrical and electronics engineers BakerPrizePaper Award. Kumar holds a bachelor's degree in technology in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and a doctorate from the California Institute of Technology.