Arun Netravali

Who is Arun Netravali?

Arun N. Netravali is an Indian-American computer engineer who has contribution in digital technology including HDTV. He conducted seminal research in digital compression, signal processing and other fields. Netravali was the last President of Bell Laboratories and Chief Scientist for Lucent Technologies before they went bankrupt. He was born in Indore . He received his undergraduate degree from the IIT Bombay, India, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. from Rice University in Houston, Texas all in electrical engineering. He taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia University, and Rutgers University.