Arun Netravali

Arun N Netravali (born 26 May 1946 in Mumbai, India) is an IndianAmerican 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 MS and a PhD from Rice University in Houston, Texas all in electrical engineering He taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia University, and Rutgers University