Kumpati S. Narendra is an American

control theorist Control may refer to: Basic meanings Economics and business * Control (management), an element of management * Control, an element of management accounting * Comptroller (or controller), a senior financial officer in an organization * Controlling ...

, who currently holds the Harold W. Cheel Professorship of Electrical Engineering at

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. He received the

Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award The Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award is an annual award (since 1979) given by the American Automatic Control Council (AACC) for achievements in control theory, named after the applied mathematician Richard E. Bellman. The award is given fo ...

in 2003. He is noted "for pioneering contributions to stability theory, adaptive and learning systems theory". He is also well recognized for his research work towards learning including Neural Networks and Learning Automata. Narendra obtained his

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in 1959. He has been the advisor of 47 doctoral students and 35 postdoctoral and visiting fellows. Of the 47 students, four were at Harvard University and thirty nine were at Yale University. Four others who completed their work under his direction received their degrees from other universities.

Research areas

Nonlinear dynamical systems In mathematics, a dynamical system is a system in which a function describes the time dependence of a point in an ambient space. Examples include the mathematical models that describe the swinging of a clock pendulum, the flow of water in ...

Artificial neural networks Artificial neural networks (ANNs), usually simply called neural networks (NNs) or neural nets, are computing systems inspired by the biological neural networks that constitute animal brains. An ANN is based on a collection of connected unit ...

Learning automata A learning automaton is one type of machine learning algorithm studied since 1970s. Learning automata select their current action based on past experiences from the environment. It will fall into the range of reinforcement learning if the environme ...

Adaptive control Adaptive control is the control method used by a controller which must adapt to a controlled system with parameters which vary, or are initially uncertain. For example, as an aircraft flies, its mass will slowly decrease as a result of fuel consumpt ...

Stability theory In mathematics, stability theory addresses the stability of solutions of differential equations and of trajectories of dynamical systems under small perturbations of initial conditions. The heat equation, for example, is a stable partial diffe ...

Honors and awards

*Franklin V. Taylor Award (IEEE SMC Society), 1972 *Fellow, IEEE, 1979 *Fellow, IEE (UK), 1981 *George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award (IEEE Control Systems Society), 1988 *John R. Ragazzini Education Award (American Automatic Control Council), 1990 *Outstanding Paper Award of the Neural Network Council (IEEE), 1991 *Neural Network Leadership Award (International Neural Network Society), 1994 *Distinguished Visiting Scientist (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), 1994-1995 *The Bode Prize/Lecture (IEEE Control Systems Society), 1995 *(Honorary) Doctor of Science (Anna University, formerly University of Madras), 1995 *Distinguished Speaker (Texas A&M), 1997 *Life Fellow (IEEE), 1997 *Distinguished Speaker (University of Virginia), 2001 *Harold W. Cheel Professor of Electrical Engineering (Yale University), 2003 *Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award (AACC), 2003 *Walton Fellow, Ireland (2007) *(Honorary) Doctor of Science (University of Ireland, Maynooth), 2007 *Neural Networks Pioneer Award (IEEE Computational Intelligence Society), 2008

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Yale profile
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