Shalinee Kishore (born 1974) is an American electrical engineer whose research includes

wireless network A wireless network is a computer network that uses wireless data connections between network nodes. Wireless networking allows homes, telecommunications networks, and business installations to avoid the costly process of introducing cables int ...

network scheduler A network scheduler, also called packet scheduler, queueing discipline (qdisc) or queueing algorithm, is an arbiter on a node in a packet switching communication network. It manages the sequence of network packets in the transmit and receive ...

s, and

energy management Energy management includes planning and operation of energy production and energy consumption units as well as energy distribution and storage. Energy management is performed via Energy Management Systems (EMS), which are designed with hardware ...

for smart buildings and

smart grid The smart grid is an enhancement of the 20th century electrical grid, using two-way communications and distributed so-called intelligent devices. Two-way flows of electricity and information could improve the delivery network. Research is main ...

s. She is Iacocca Chair Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Director of the Institute for Cyber Physical Infrastructure & Energy at the

Lehigh University Lehigh University (LU), in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States, is a private university, private research university. The university was established in 1865 by businessman Asa Packer. Lehigh University's undergraduate programs have been mixed ...

P. C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science.

Education

Kishore studied electrical engineering at

Rutgers University Rutgers University ( ), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of three campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's C ...

, earning bachelor's and master's degrees in 1996 and 1999. She then went to

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

, earned a second master's degree in 2001, and completed her Ph.D. in 2003. Her dissertation, ''Capacity and Coverage in a Two-Tier Cellular CDMA Network'', was jointly supervised by Vincent Poor and Stuart Carl Schwartz.

Recognition

Kishore won the

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) is the highest honor bestowed by the United States federal government on outstanding scientists and engineers in the early stages of their independent research careers. T ...

in 2004, "for conducting innovative research to provide high-quality, all-encompassing wireless access to communication networks". She won the 2016 Outstanding Service Award of the Women in Communications Engineering (WICE) Standing Committee of the

IEEE Communications Society The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and other related disciplines. The IEEE has a corporate office i ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kishore, Shalinee 1974 births Living people American electrical engineers American women engineers Rutgers University alumni Princeton University alumni Lehigh University faculty Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers