# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arun-netravali
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:38:05.401Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arun-netravali"
name: "Arun Netravali"
slug: "arun-netravali"
description: "Arun N. Netravali was an Indian–American computer engineer credited with contributions in digital technology including HDTV. He conducted research in digital compression, signal processing and other fields. Netravali was the ninth President of Bell Laboratories and served as Lucent's Chief Technology Officer and Chief Network Architect. He received his undergraduate degree from IIT Bombay, India, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. from Rice University in Houston, Texas, all in electrical engineering. Several global universities, including the Ecole Polytechnique Federale in Lausanne, Switzerland, honored him with honorary doctorates."
tagline: "Indian-American computer engineer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
birthDate: "1946-05-26"
deathDate: "2021-11-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.345573333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump