Victor B. Lawrence (born May 10, 1945, in Accra, Ghana) is a Ghanaian-American engineer credited with seminal contributions in digital signal processing for multimedia communications.

During his 30-plus-year tenure at Bell Laboratories, Lawrence made extensive and fundamental personal contributions to voice, data, audio and video communications.

He led numerous projects that significantly improved or enhanced every phase in the evolution of early low-speed and today's high-speed data communications.

He is a Research Professor and Director of the Center for Intelligent Networked Systems (iNetS) at Stevens Institute of Technology, where he also served as Associate Dean.

Beginning in 1996, Lawrence lectured for several years at the Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy, formerly the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.

In 2005, Lawrence was appointed Director of the Center for Intelligent Networked Systems, and was named Associate Dean and Charles Batchelor Chair Professor of Engineering at the Stevens Institute of Technology.

Lawrence holds more than twenty U.S. and international patents and has had more than forty-five papers in referenced journals and conference proceedings, covering the topics of digital signal processing and data communications.

He performed the early analysis, reduction to practice, and the first real-time implementation, through which he discovered the existence of unexpected large-amplitude and very-long-period limit cycles.

These techniques were implemented in oscillators, tone detectors and generators used in digital telephone systems, PBXs and central office switches.

Early Internet Access Technology and Worldwide Data Communications Lawrence was the architect and lead engineer for AT&T's first 2400 bit/s full-duplex modem for the PSTN.

Lawrence led the team that first proposed to the ITU and demonstrated the technical feasibility of trellis-coded, full-duplex echo-cancellation-based 9.6 kbit/s and 14.4 kbit/s modems over the public switched telephone network.

Lawrence provided technical leadership as well as personal innovations resulting in fundamental improvements in the design of secure, reliable, and efficient global telecommunication networks.

In 1988, as Head of the Data Communications Research Department, he directed the development of a family of modems based on the AT&T 16A Digital Signal Processor chip.

The resulting modem/fax chip-set became the industry's most successful modem data-pump and positioned Lucent Microelectronics Division as the world leader in this field.

Lawrence demonstrated innovative engineering practices when he and his team applied novel ATM switching and architecture ideas to design a world-class set of integrated circuit chips.

This project began with an FCC Advisory Committee on Advanced TV (ACATS) in 1987, the testing phase in 1991–92, the formation of the Grand Alliance between AT&T, Zenith, Sarnoff, General Instrument, Philips, and Thomson, and MIT resulting in the FCC/ACATS HDTV Standard in 1995.

They built the first studio encoder and the receiver chip-set for the Sirius Radio Satellite system, which is still being used in SiriusXM and licensed by many semiconductor suppliers.

National Secure Voice Systems Lawrence's work on high-speed modem/fax chip sets led to the industry's most successful modem data pump.

These terminals included major innovations in providing services to highly mobile and geographically dispersed troops and others away from fixed telecommunication networks.

He currently serves as a Trustee of New Jersey Center for Teaching and Learning (NJCTL), which has developed a progressive pedagogy for STEM education.

The innovative curricula, AI-driven technologies, and online course material have been shown to be very useful in improving STEM test scores for New Jersey students including children in urban inner-city challenged communities.

In addition to his service with NJCTL, and through his affiliation with the National Inventors Hall of Fame, Lawrence has met with inner- city mayors and minority students to promote STEM education.

As Vice President of Advanced Communications Technology at Bell Labs, he directly supported systems engineering developments and practices in Malaysia, New Zealand, China, Brazil, and other countries.