Anuradha Annaswamy

Anuradha M. Annaswamy is a computer scientist noted for her research on adaptive control theory and smart grids. Since 1996, she has worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Currently, Annaswamy is a senior research scientist at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Director of the Active Adaptive Control Laboratory (a flight controls group).

Career Annaswamy received a B.E. degree from Indian Institute of Science in 1979. Following this, she completed a Ph.D in Computer science from Yale University in 1985.

In 2014, Annaswamy was awarded a grant, valued at £1,783,855, from the National Science Foundation to lead the project "Towards resilient computational models of electricity-gas ICI", in partnership with colleagues Christopher Knittel and Ignacio Perez-Arriaga.

Annaswamy has published over 500 academic publications, receiving over 18,000 citations. She has an h-index and i10-index of 56 and 210 respectively.

Awards 2024 Control Systems Technology Award, IEEE Control Systems Society 2023 Best Paper Award, IFAC Journal of Annual Reviews in Control 2021 Distinguished Alumni, Indian Institute of Science 2017 Fellow, International Federation of Automatic Control 2017 Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Control Systems Society 2016 IEEE Control Systems Society Distinguished Member 2010 Best Paper Award, IEEE Control Systems Magazine 2008 Donald Julius Groen Prize, Institute of Mechanical Engineers 2008 Hans Fischer Fellow, Technische Universitat Munchen-Institute for Advanced Studies 2002 IEEE Fellow for "contributions to adaptive control theory, neural networks and active-adaptive control of combustion systems." 1988 George Axelby best paper award, IEEE Trans. Autom. Control

Personal life Annaswamy is married to Mandayam Srinivasan.