Krishna M.  Sivalingam is a Professor in the Department of CSE, IIT
Madras, Chennai, INDIA. Previously, he was a Professor in the Dept. of
CSEE at University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA; with
the School of EECS at Washington State University, Pullman, USA from
1997 until 2002; and with the University of North Carolina Greensboro,
USA from 1994 until 1997. He has also conducted research at Lucent
Technologies' Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ, and at AT&T Labs in
Whippany, NJ.

He received his Ph.D. and M.S.  degrees in Computer Science from State
University of New York at Buffalo in 1994 and 1990 respectively; and
his B.E.  degree in Computer Science and Engineering in 1988 from Anna
University's College of Engineering Guindy, Chennai (Madras), India.
While at SUNY Buffalo, he was a Presidential Fellow from 1988 to 1991.

His research interests include wireless networks, wireless sensor
networks, optical wavelength division multiplexed networks, and
performance evaluation.

He holds three patents in wireless networks and has
published several research articles including more than forty journal
publications.  He has published an edited book on Wireless Sensor
Networks in 2004 and edited books on optical WDM networks in 2000 and
2004. 

He is serving or has served as a member of the Editorial Board for ACM
Wireless Networks Journal, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing,
Elsevier Optical Switching and Networking Journal, International
Journal of Security and Networks, Ad Hoc and Sensor Wireless Networks
Journal, International Journal of Vehicular Technology, and KICS
Journal of Communications and Networks.