Dr. Shivkumar Kalyanaraman (PhD '97) was elected to the 2010 IEEE Fellow Class for contributions to traffic management in computer communication networks. Shiv, as commonly known, is a Senior Manager of the Next Gen Systems & Smarter Planet Solutions Department at IBM India Research Labs, Bangalore. He was previously a Manager of the Next Generation Telecom Research group and a Research Staff Member since 2008. Prior to joining IBM, he was a full Professor at the Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He also holds an Executive M.B.A. (EMBA) degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Shiv's current research in IBM is at the intersection of emerging wireless technologies and IBM middleware and systems technologies with applications to large-scale smarter planet problems (grids, traffic, finance etc). He was selected by MIT's Technology Review Magazine in 1999 as one of the top 100 young innovators for the new millennium. He served as the TPC Co-chair of IEEE INFOCOM 2008, and will be the General co-chair of ACM SIGCOMM 2010 in New Delhi.
IEEE established the grade of fellow in 1912 to recognize engineers who have demonstrated outstanding proficiency and have achieved distinction in their profession. The total fellows selected in any one year does not exceed one-tenth of one percent of the total IEEE membership.