Kumar N. Sivarajan

Kumar is Chief Technology Officer at Tejas Networks. He has several years of experience in the field of electrical communication engineering. Kumar is a former associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering. He is also a recipient of the Swarnajayanti Fellowship from the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering, and the Global Indus Technovators Award from the India Business Club at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2004. Kumar has co-authored the book titled “Optical Networks: A Practical Perspective”. He is also a recipient of the IEEE W.R.G. Baker Prize Paper Award and the IEEE Charles Legeyt Fortescue Scholarship. Kumar is the former chairperson of the governing council of Telecommunications Standards Development Society, India. Prior to joining our Company, he was an associate professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. Kumar holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electrical Engineering (Electronics) from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras and a Master of Science degree and a Doctor of Philiosophy degree from the California Institute of Technology.