Dr.
Kumar Krishen born in Kashmir went on
to become the Chief Technologist in
the Technology Transfer and
Commercialization Office at the NASA's
Johnson Space Center, he is an
accomplished engineer, manager, and
educator with over 30 years of
experience in academia, government and
industry. He has done his B.A from Jammu and Kashmir University in
electronics, electrical engineering,
radio physics and mathematics, M.Tech
and B. Tech from Calcutta University.
After
completion of his education in India
he flew to US in 1964 where he did his
M.S and Ph.D from Kansas State
University in Electrical Engineering
(Electronics). Dr. Krishen was an
Assistant Professor in Electrical
Engineering at Kansas State University
before joining Lockheed in 1969 as
Staff Scientist.
In
1976, he joined NASA and has held key
positions in Advanced Programs in
Earth Observations, Science Payloads,
Experiment Systems, Tracking &
Communications, Mission Support, New
Initiatives, technology R&D and
Authoring more than 100 technical
papers/reports - 43 of which have been
published in books, technical journals
or society proceedings. He has been a
Co-Principal Investigator on several
NASA/Aircraft Earth Resources Program
Missions. He was the Sensor
Performance Evaluation Project Leader
for the S-193 and S-194 Skylab
Systems.
He
has received many awards, medals,
commendations and honors from
universities, industry, government
organisations and is listed in the Who
is Who in the World, Men of
Achievement, Personalities of America,
and 2000 Outstanding People of the
20th Century.
During
his tenure Dr. Krishen has received
many awards which are listless, some
of his achievements are listed below.
| Achievements
List |
| 1 |
1997
Outstanding Technological
Achievement Award of the
Business Opportunity
Symposium Series (BOSS)
Conference sponsored by the
Texas Association of
Minority Business
Enterprises, Austin, Texas,
September 1997. |
| 2 |
Fellow,
Society for Design and
Process Science, for
significant engineering
achievements in design and
process improvements, 1996,
Austin, Texas, USA. |
| 3 |
Performance
Award from NASA Johnson
Space Center for excellence
in performance of assigned
duties, September, 1994 and
1995. |
| 4 |
Houston
Leadership Award for 1992
World Congress on
Superconductivity
Conference, held in Munich,
Germany, March 1993. |
| 5 |
Group
Achievement Award for Space
Operations, Applications and
Research (SOAR) Symposia and
Exhibitions from NASA,
January 1993. |
| 6 |
NASA
Johnson Space Center
Inventor's Award for U.S.
Patent No. 5,005,147, June
1992. |
| 7 |
Best
Paper Award from Instrument
Society of America, ROBEX
Conference, as co-author of
the paper entitled,
"Error Analysis for an
Image Point Correspondence
Algorithm" (1989) |
| 8 |
Technical
Man-of-the-Year from
Galveston Bay Section of
IEEE (1989,1990). |
| 9 |
Outstanding
Presentation Award at the
Fourth Space Logistics
Symposium, November 1991, by
the American Institute of
Aeronautics and Astronautics
(AIAA), and the Society of
Logistics Engineers (SOLE),
Cocoa Beach, FL. |
| 10 |
NASA/JSC
Certificate of Commendation
for dedicated, innovative,
and exemplary performance in
developing, organizing,
advocating, and implementing
outstanding communications,
tracking, and vision
advanced programs (1987). |
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