| Dr. Sid Ahuja is currently Vice President of the Convergence, Software, and Computer Science Laboratory and is leading and managing research in converged networks, services, speech recognition, text-to-speech coding techniques, video based communication and novel multimedia applications.
Dr. Ahuja¡¯s early work involved associative memories, pipelining and parallel processing. He has been involved in the design and implementation of multiprocessor systems, multimedia conferencing systems, packet telephony, and friendly user interface design. He designed and developed the first large scale multiprocessor at Bell Labs that became the 3B-4000 product from AT&T. He pioneered research in multimedia systems and championed the first Internet based video conferencing system. His current interests are in the field of communication applications over the Internet and use of multimedia technologies such as speech, audio and video for natural multimedia communication. He currently leads the research in next-generation networks to support convergence and new multimedia services.
Sudhir R. Ahuja obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Rice University in 1974 and 1977, respectively. His undergraduate education was at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, where he received the President¡¯s Gold Medal for outstanding academic performance in 1972. He has been with AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ, from 1977 and continues to be with Bell Labs in Lucent Technologies in Murray Hill.
Dr. Ahuja is a Fellow of Bell Labs. He is currently as Associate Editor for the Transactions on Multimedia Communications and Applications for ACM. He has served as Chairman for the Multimedia Services and Terminals Committee of the IEEE Society, Area Editor for the IEEE Communications Committee and Editor for Transactions on Networking, a joint publication of IEEE and ACM.
Associations and societies include IEEE, ACM, and Sigma Xi.
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