ARUN N. NETRAVALI

BIOGRAPHY

Arun Netravali is President of Bell Laboratories. He is responsible for research and development across all of Lucent. He previously was Executive Vice President of Research, responsible for Bell Labs’ basic research efforts in all areas involving communication, computing and physical sciences. Earlier, Dr. Netravali was Vice President of Quality, Engineering, Software and Technologies in Bell Labs’ internal consulting and technology realization group. He held a variety of leadership positions in visual communications, computer systems and communications sciences research. Prior to joining Bell Labs, Dr. Netravali worked on problems relating to filtering, guidance and control of the space shuttle for NASA.

Dr. Netravali is regarded as a pioneer in the field of digital technology and led the research and development of Bell Labs’ high definition television (HDTV) effort. He has authored more than 170 technical papers and co-authored three books: Digital Picture Representation and Compression, (Plenum, 1987), Visual Communications Systems, (IEEE Press, 1989) and Digital Video: An Introduction to MPEG-2, (Chapman and Hall, 1996). He holds more than 70 patents in the areas of computer networks, human interfaces to machines, picture processing and digital television.

Dr. Netravali is a member of Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Xi, a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and AAAS, New Jersey’s Inventors Hall of Famer, and a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering. For his scientific achievements, Dr. Netravali has received numerous awards, including the Alexander Graham Bell Medal (1991), an EMMY for the HDTV Grand Alliance (1994), the Computers & Communications Prize, (1997) (NEC, Japan), the Frederik Philips Award from the IEEE (2000), the NASSCOM (National Association of Software and Services Companies in India) Medal (2000), the Kilby Medal from the IEEE (2001), the Padma Bhushan Award from the President of India, which is the nation's third highest civilian honor (2001), and the Science and Technology Medal from the R&D Council of NJ (2001).

Dr. Netravali was an adjunct professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has taught graduate courses at City College (N.Y.), Columbia University and Rutgers University. He has served on the editorial board of the IEEE, and is currently an editor of several journals. He serves on the board of a number of organizations. He is a member of the Indo/U.S. Science and Technology Council, initiated by former President Clinton and Indian Prime Minister, Mr. Vajpayee, and the NRI Advisory Committee for Telecommunications, Chaired by Mr. Paswan, Minister of Communications in India.

Dr. Netravali received his undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India, and master’s and doctorate degrees from Rice University in Houston, Texas, all in electrical engineering. He holds honorary doctorates from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale in Lausanne, Switzerland, Osmania University and IIT, Mumbai.

July, 2001