Sanjoy K. Mitter

Sanjoy Kumar Mitter
Born(1933-12-09)December 9, 1933[1]
Calcutta, India
DiedJune 26, 2023(2023-06-26) (aged 89)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Alma materUniversity of Calcutta
City and Guilds of London Institute
Imperial College London
RelativesBinod Mitter (grandfather)
AwardsRichard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award (2007)
Scientific career
InstitutionsBrown, Boveri & Cie
Battelle Memorial Institute
Central Electricity Generating Board
Case Western Reserve University
MIT
Thesis Function Space Methods in Optimal Control with Applications to Power Systems  (1965)
Doctoral advisorJohn Hugh Westcott
Doctoral studentsRosalind Picard
Sanjeev Kulkarni
Daniel Ocone
Websitestuff.mit.edu/people/mitter/

Sanjoy Kumar Mitter (December 9, 1933 – June 26, 2023) was a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT who was a noted control theorist.

  1. ^ Schick, Irvin C. (2000), Djaferis, Theodore E.; Schick, Irvin C. (eds.), "Sanjoy K. Mitter: A Scholar, a Gentleman, and a Friend", System Theory: Modeling, Analysis and Control, vol. 518, Boston, MA: Springer US, pp. 1–22, doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-5223-9_1, ISBN 978-0-7923-8618-6, retrieved 2023-08-17