Jules A. Bellisio, Chief Scientist and Executive Director, Applied Research, Bellcore, manages the research program as it relates to emerging networks. During his engineering career, which started in 1962 at Bell Telephone Laboratories and has included design for manufacture as well as exploratory development, he has worked on a broad spectrum of electronic and transmission problems ranging from data modems to lightwave systems. At Bell System divestiture, he joined Bellcore to establish the Digital Signal Processing Research Division. In his current assignment, he is developing many of Bellcore's next generation consulting and engineering opportunities.

Bellisio was born in Brooklyn, New York, received the BSEE degree from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, the SMEE degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and was awarded the Ph.D. from Yale University. He is the originator of the "sliding payload" concept central to SONET/SDH transmission systems, invented the phase-frequency locked timing extractor widely used in baseband digital repeaters, and was the principal engineer of the digital television lightwave system used for most of the contribution quality TV feeds at the 1984 Olympic Games. Bellisio and his staff have made key contributions to Broadband/ATM standardization, and to HDTV, video compression and ADSL systems.

Dr. Bellisio is a Bellcore Fellow, a Fellow of the IEEE, a member of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, and a member of the European Association for Signal Processing. He was the President and Chairman of the Board of DAVIC and is currently DAVIC Vice President.

Jules and his wife Carol, a college professor, live in rural New Jersey.They have three daughters and enjoy traveling and outdoor activities.

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