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{{Infobox scientist
|name = Ravi Sethi
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|workplaces = [[Penn State University]]<br/>[[Bell Labs]]<br/>[[Avaya|Avaya Labs Research]]<br/>[[University of Arizona]]
|alma_mater = [[Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur]]<br/>[[Princeton University]]
}}

'''Ravi Sethi''' (born 1947) is an Indian [[computer scientist]] retired from executive roles at [[Bell Labs]] and [[Avaya|Avaya Labs]]. He also serves as a member of the [[National Science Foundation]]'s Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Advisory Committee. He is best known as one of three authors of the classic [[computer science]] textbook ''[[Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools]]'', also known as the ''Dragon Book''.

Sethi was born in 1947 in [[Punjab, India|Murdana, Punjab]]. He attended the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur]] (IITK) and went on to obtain a [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] at [[Princeton University]].<ref>{{mathgenealogy|id=82048}}.</ref> He worked as an assistant professor at [[Penn State University]], before joining [[Bell Labs]] in 1976.

While working for [[Bell Labs]] he was awarded the "Distinguished Technical Staff award", and in 1996 he was named a [[List of Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery|Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20061004070830/http://fellows.acm.org/fellow_citation.cfm?id=1393677&srt=all ACM Fellows Award: Ravi Sethi], retrieved 2011-04-14.</ref> Also in 1996 he was named research vice president in charge of computing and mathematical sciences and, additionally, in 1997, chief technical officer for Lucent’s Communications Software Group.

In 2014, Sethi joined the department of computer science at the [[University of Arizona]].
==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/~rsethi/ Home page (University of Arizona)]
*[https://www.bell-labs.co/who/ravi/ Home page (Bell Labs)]
*[http://www.avaya.com/usa/avaya-labs/people/ravi-sethipresident-avaya-labs-research Autobiographical note at Avaya website] 
*[http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/s/Sethi:Ravi.html Publication list] on [[DBLP]]
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