Arun Netravali

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Arun N. Netravali (b. May 26, 1946 in Bombay) is an Indian-American engineer and businessman who is a pioneer of digital technology including HDTV. He conducted seminal research in digital compression, signal processing and other fields, including important collaborative work with Thomas S. Huang. Netravali has been President of Bell Laboratories and Chief Scientist for Lucent Technologies.

He received his undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. from Rice University in Houston, Texas. He has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia University, and Rutgers University. He has authored more than 170 technical papers and co-authored three books: Digital Picture Representation and Compression, Visual Communications Systems, and Digital Video: An Introduction to MPEG-2. He holds more than 70 patents relating to computer networks, human interfaces to machines, picture processing, and digital television.

Netravali is currently the managing partner of OmniCapital, a venture capital business, and is a director of various companies including Agere Systems. He has two children, Ravi, an avid tennis player, and Ilka, a student at Harvard Medical School.

1 Awards
2 Selected writing
3 Notes
4 External links

[edit] Awards

Netravali has received numerous awards and honorary degrees, including the U.S. National Medal of Technology ^[1] and the Padma Bhushan ^[2] from the Government of India.

[edit] Selected writing

Arun N. Netravali and Barry G. Haskell, Digital Pictures: Representation, Compression and Standards (Applications of Communications Theory), Springer (second edition, 1995), ISBN 0-306-44917-X