Mathukumalli Vidyasagar Explained

Mathukumalli Vidyasagar
Birth Date:	29 September 1947
Birth Place:	Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India
Nationality:	Indian
Field:	Control Systems
Doctoral Advisor:	Thomas J. Higgins
Doctoral Students:	Kirsten Morris
Known For:	Contributions to control theory

Mathukumalli Vidyasagar ^[1] (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.^[2]

Early life and education

He completed his bachelor's, master's and Ph. D. degrees from University of Wisconsin, Madison.

He began his career as an assistant professor at the Marquette University in 1969.

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"^[3]
1984: the Frederick Emmons Terman Award from the American Society for Engineering Education^[4]
2004: IEEE Spectrum named him as one of forty "Tech Gurus"
2008: the IEEE Control Systems Award^[5] ^[6]
2012: Became a Fellow of Royal Society^[7]
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

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

Web site: Royal Society Fellowship Page . . 23 April 2012.
Web site: Mathukumalli Vidyasagar - UT Dallas: CV. personal.utdallas.edu. 28 May 2020.
Web site: Fellows - V . https://web.archive.org/web/20110312103523/http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/fellows/alphabetical/vfellows.html#Ve . dead . 12 March 2011 . . 21 January 2011.
Web site: Past Frederick Emmons Terman Award Winners . . 21 January 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130402171545/http://www.asee.org/member-resources/awards/full-list-of-awards/awards-archive/past-division-award-winners-2 . 2 April 2013 .
Web site: IEEE Control Systems Award Recipients . . 21 January 2011.
Web site: IEEE Control Systems Award . . 21 January 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101229173014/http://www.ieeecss.org/main/awards/control-systems-field-award . 29 December 2010 .
Web site: Royal Society Fellowship Page . . 23 April 2012.