Mathukumalli Vidyasagar

Mathukumalli Vidyasagar (born September 29, 1947) is a leading control theorist. He is currently the Cecil & Ida Green (II) Professor of Systems Biology Science at the University of Texas at Dallas. Prior to that he was an executive vice-president at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) where he headed the Advanced Technology Center. Earlier, he was the director of Center for Artificial intelligence and Robotics (CAIR), a DRDO defence lab in Bangalore.

Awards and honors

Vidyasagar received several awards and honors, including:

• 1983: IEEE Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), at the age of 35, one of the youngest to receive this honor, "for contributions to the stability analysis of linear and nonlinear distributed systems"^[1]
• 1984: the Frederick Emmons Terman Award from the American Society for Engineering Education^[2]
• 2004: IEEE Spectrum named him as one of forty "Tech Gurus"
• 2008: the IEEE Control Systems Award^[3][4]

Publications

• 2006. Robot modeling and control. with S. Hutchinson and Mark W. Spong
• 1989. Robot dynamics and control. with Mark W. Spong
• 1985. Control System Synthesis: A Factorization Approach (out of print)

References

1. ^ "Fellows - V". IEEE. http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/fellows/alphabetical/vfellows.html#Ve. Retrieved January 21, 2011 (2011-01-21). 
2. ^ "Past Frederick Emmons Terman Award Winners". American Society for Engineering Education. http://www.asee.org/member-resources/awards/full-list-of-awards/awards-archive/past-division-award-winners-2#Electrical_and_Computer_Engineering_Division. Retrieved January 21, 2011 (2011-01-21). 
3. ^ "IEEE Control Systems Award Recipients". IEEE. http://www.ieee.org/documents/control_sys_rl.pdf. Retrieved January 21, 2011 (2011-01-21). 
4. ^ "IEEE Control Systems Award". IEEE Control Systems Society. http://www.ieeecss.org/main/awards/control-systems-field-award. Retrieved January 21, 2011 (2011-01-21). 

External links

• Home page

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