Mathukumalli Vidyasagar (born 29 September 1947) is a leading

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and a Fellow of Royal Society. He is currently a Distinguished Professor in Electrical Engineering at

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. Previously he was the Cecil & Ida Green (II) Chair of Systems Biology Science at the

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. Prior to that he was an executive vice-president at

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(TCS) where he headed the Advanced Technology Center. Earlier, he was the director of Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR), a

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defence lab in

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. He is the son of eminent mathematician M V Subbarao. His

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is two and his Einstein number is three.

Early life and education

He completed his bachelor's, master's and Ph. D. degrees from

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Career

He began his career as an assistant professor at the

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in 1969.

Awards and honors

Vidyasagar received several awards and honors, including: * 1983:

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of the

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(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" * 1984: the

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from the

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* 2004:

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named him as one of forty "Tech Gurus" * 2008: the

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* 2012: Became a Fellow of

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* 2012:

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* 2013: John Ragazzini Education Award, American Automatic Control Council - for outstanding contributions to automatic control education through publication of textbooks and research monographs * 2015: Jawaharlal Nehru Science Fellowship, Government of India * 2017: Fellow, International Federation of Automatic Control * 2017: Named as 125 "People of Impact" during the 125th anniversary of the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Wisconsin

Books

* 1975. ''Feedback Systems: Input-Output Properties''. with C. A. Desoer * 1978. ''Nonlinear Systems Analysis'' * 1981. ''Input-Output Analysis of Large-Scale Interconnected Systems: Decomposition, Well-Posedness and Stability'' * 1985. ''Control System Synthesis: A Factorization Approach'' * 1989. ''Robot dynamics and control''. with Mark W. Spong * 1993. ''Nonlinear Systems Analysis, (Second Edition)'' * 1997. ''A Theory of Learning and Generalization: With Applications to Neural Networks and Control Systems'' * 2003. ''Learning and Generalization With Applications to Neural Networks, (Second Edition)'' * 2006. ''Robot modeling and control''. with S. Hutchinson and Mark W. Spong * 2012. ''Computational Cancer Biology: An Interaction Networks Approach'' * 2014. ''Hidden Markov Processes: Theory and Applications to Biology''

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