Honors and Awards

• Member, National Academy of Engineering.
• Fellow, National Inventors of Inventors.
• Ambassador-at-large for Bell Labs.
• 2005 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award.
• 2005 IEEE W. Wallace McDowell Award.
• The 2005, 2009 and 2010 Thomas Alva Edison Patent Awards from the R&D Council of New Jersey.
• Inducted into the NJ Inventors of Fame in 2014.
• Bell Labs Fellow, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM).
• 2005 Distinguished Alumni Award from Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India.
• 1991 Leonard G. Abraham Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Communications Society for "Design and Implementation of a High-Speed Transport Protocol," published in IEEE Trans. on Communications, Nov. 1990.
• President of India's Gold Medal, 1975 . Institution of Engineers (India) Gold Medal, 1975.