Biography: Dr. Lawrence is Distinguished Research Professor and Director of the Center for Intelligent Networked Systems (iNetS) at Stevens Institute of Technology.
He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2016. He is a Member of the US National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of AT&T Bell Labs, and Charter Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. Dr. Lawrence is the co-author of five books. He holds 53 U.S. and international patents and has published 70 papers in referenced journals and conference proceedings.
Before joining Stevens Institute of Technology, Dr. Lawrence worked for Bell Laboratories for many years, retiring as Vice President, Advanced Communications Technology - Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies. He led the development of technologies for worldwide communications networks, and managed an R&D staff of over 500 scientists/engineers and a budget of about $100M annually. During his career, his personal research activities provided major contributions to gigabit photonic and wireless networking, signal processing, modem technology, digital techniques, ATM and IP switching and protocols, HDTV, DSL, speech and audio coding, among other areas.
Dr. Lawrence co-funded four successful venture companies: Globespan Semiconductors Inc., Elemedia the Lucent’s Internet software business, Lucent Digital Video, and Lucent Digital Radio, iBiquity.
He has received many awards including an Emmy in 1997, a 2016 IEEE Simon Ramo Gold Medal, and a 2004 International Award in Communications.
He also served as Chairman of the IEEE Awards Board and Editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Communications.
He received a B.Sc. in 1968 from University of London, United Kingdom, a D.I.C. in 1969 from Imperial College, and a Ph.D. in 1973 Electrical Engineering from University of London, Imperial College in the United Kingdom.
