Arun Netravali is an international scientist of
Indian origin. Arun Netravali has made many fundamental contributions in
the areas of digital communications technology. Presently Dr Arun
Netravali is the President of the Bell Labs. Earlier Dr Arun Netravali
was Executive Vice President of research, responsible for Bell Labs'
basic research efforts in all areas involving communication, computing
and physical sciences.
Dr. Arun Netravali has played an important role in making the Bell Labs
the leader in telecommunications technology. Dr. Netravali's pioneering
contributions in algorithms for the representation, synthesis,
processing, and compression of images and image sequences has
transformed television from analog to digital in broadcast TV, cable TV,
DBS, HDTV, and enabled an entirely new set of products and services for
the multimedia revolution over the Internet.
Dr. Netravali graduated from the IIT, Mumbai, India. He earned his
master's and doctorate degrees from Rice University in Houston, Texas,
in the field of electrical engineering. Dr. Arun C. Netravali was also
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 serves on the board of a number of
organizations. He is a member of the Indo/U.S. Science and Technology
Council, initiated by the former President Clinton and the then Indian
PM, Mr. Vajpayee, and the NRI Advisory Committee for Telecommunications.
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