Pravin Varaiya

Pravin Varaiya
Born(1940-10-29)29 October 1940[1]
Bombay, India
Died(2022-06-10)10 June 2022 (aged 82)
EducationUniversity of Mumbai
University of California, Berkeley
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
ThesisNonlinear Programming and Optimal Control (1966)
Doctoral advisorLotfi A. Zadeh
Doctoral studentsJean Walrand
Mark H. A. Davis
Andrea Goldsmith
Steven H. Low
Vivek Borkar
Mustafa Ergen
Websitepaleale.eecs.berkeley.edu/~varaiya/

Pravin Pratap Varaiya (29 October 1940 – 10 June 2022) was Nortel Networks Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.[2]

Varaiya received his B.Sc. from University of Bombay and his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 1963 from University of California, Berkeley.

Varaiya has worked in the areas of control, communication networks and transportation systems. He is the author of High-Performance Communication Networks (with Jean Walrand and Andrea Goldsmith) (2nd edn., Morgan-Kaufmann, 2000).

In 1980, Varaiya became a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).[3] In 1999, he was elected to membership of the National Academy of Engineering[4] and in 2006 he became Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[5] In 2002, he received the IEEE Control Systems Award, "for outstanding contributions to stochastic and adaptive control and the unification of concepts from control and computer science".[6] In 2008, he received the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award from the American Automatic Control Council, "for pioneering contributions to stochastic control, hybrid systems and the unification of theories of control and computation".[7]

Varaiya was ranked within the top 100 scientists in the world in the field of Engineering and Technology.[8]

Varaiya died on 10 June 2022, due to injuries sustained when he was hit by a truck while out walking in April of that year.[9]

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  2. ^ EECS Berkeley Archived 7 April 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Fellow Class of 1980". IEEE. Archived from the original on 13 April 2010. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
  4. ^ "NAE Members Directory - Dr. Pravin P. Varaiya". NAE. Retrieved 5 April 2011.
  5. ^ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter V" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 5 April 2011.
  6. ^ "IEEE Control Systems Award Recipients" (PDF). IEEE. Retrieved 5 April 2011.
    - "IEEE Control Systems Award". IEEE Control Systems Society. Archived from the original on 29 December 2010. Retrieved 5 April 2011.
  7. ^ "Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award". American Automatic Control Council. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  8. ^ "Research.com - Leading Academic Research Portal". Research.com. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
  9. ^ Crowley, Magdalene L. (13 June 2022). "EECS Prof. Pravin Varaiya has died". eecs.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 14 June 2022.