Awards & Winners

Arun Netravali

Date of Birth 26-May-1946
Place of Birth Mumbai
(Maharashtra, India)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Entrepreneur, Businessperson
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.

Awards by Arun Netravali

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2001


National Medal of Technology and Innovation
(For his leadership in the field of communication systems; for pioneering contributions that transformed TV from analog to digital, enabling numerous integrated circuits, systems and services in broadcast TV, CATV, DBS, HDTV, and multimedia over the Internet; and for technical expertise and leadership, which have kept Bell Labs at the forefront in communications technology.)