Victor B. Lawrence

Victor B. Lawrence

Victor B. Lawrence received his undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral degrees from the University of London in the United Kingdom.

Lawrence joined Bell Laboratories in 1974 and spent most of his career in research and development in signal processing and communications. His research led to significant advances in high-speed transmission over the public switched telephone network (PSTN) and to the development of wireless data modems and other high-speed data connectivity as well as a variety of DSL technologies.

An IEEE fellow and a member of the National Academy of Engineering, Victor B. Lawrence has received numerous awards, including the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society's Guillemin-Cauer Prize Award and an Emmy Award. Lawrence is also involved in the International Cultural Exchange Center, which he co-founded. He is the 2007 recipient of the IEEE Simon Ramo Medal “for technical innovation and leadership in the systems engineering of worldwide data communications networks.”

Currently, Victor B. Lawrence is Associate Dean and Batchelor Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ.