Mathukumalli Vidyasagar

Mathukumalli Vidyasagar (born 29 September 1947) is a leading control theorist and a Fellow of Royal Society. He is currently a Distinguished Professor in Electrical Engineering at IIT Hyderabad. Previously he was the Cecil & Ida Green (II) Chair 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 Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR), a DRDO defence lab in Bangalore. He is the son of eminent mathematician M V Subbarao.

His Erdős number is two and his Einstein number is three.

Early life and education He completed his bachelor's, master's and Ph. D. degrees from University of Wisconsin, Madison. 1984: the Frederick Emmons Terman Award from the American Society for Engineering Education 2004: IEEE Spectrum named him as one of forty "Tech Gurus" 2008: the IEEE Control Systems Award 2012: Became a Fellow of Royal Society 2012: Rufus Oldenburger Medal 2013: John R. Ragazzini 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

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