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David Belanger

David Belanger is currently the AT&T Labs Chief Scientist.

As Chief Scientist, he is responsible to the AT&T Labs President for: identifying pre-product technology important to the future of AT&T, evaluating technology, building alignment within AT&T on technology directions, and serving as AT&T liaison to external technical communities, specifically universities, government agencies and industrial laboratories.   Much of this role also involves articulating technology directions to AT&T’s largest customers.

Prior to this role, he was Vice President of Information,  Software, &  Systems Research at AT&T Shannon Labs in Florham Park, NJ. The Information,  Software & Systems Research Lab conducts research in:  large scale and real time information mining related to operations of a (communications) service business; interactive, information visualization; scaleable, dependable software systems; and new, information based, communications services.  It is also responsible for delivery and operations of very large scale (e.g. petabyte) near real time service management capabilities to AT&T and its customers, as well as a wide variety of analytic and information mining services.  He was the creator of the AT&T InfoLab, an organization aimed at optimizing the value gained from data within AT&T.

Dave joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1979 working in the area of database support for economic analysis of  product lifecycles.  This was followed by research on large scale data and information systems, and automatic program generation for data manipulation systems.  He has subsequently led research efforts in software systems and engineering, information mining, information visualization, as well as development efforts in very large scale and real-time data systems.  He built the Software Engineering Research Department which provided software tools and techniques used across AT&T Bell Labs, and via open source across the world.

Prior to joining AT&T, Dave was on the Mathematics and Computer Science Faculty at University of South Alabama (responsible for building Computer Science into largest major on campus by time of  leaving in 1979), a consultant for a variety of organizations, and co-founder/VP of Gulf Coast Data Systems (a computing services company).  He received his B. S. from Union College (NY) in Mathematics, and an

M. S. and Ph.D., also in Mathematics, from Case Western Reserve University.

In 1998, Dave was awarded the AT&T Science and Technology Medal for his contributions in very large scale information mining technology.

In 2006, he was named an AT&T Fellow for “lifetime contributions in software, software tools, and information mining”.

IEEE Communications Society Industrial Innovator Award – 2009

TechAmerica  (nee ITAA) Board of Directors – 2004 –

TechAmerica Chair of Commercial Policy Board   2011-