Thomas Kailath | |
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 With his wife, Anuradha Luther Maitra | |
| Born | June 7, 1935 Pune, Bombay Presidency, British India |
| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Government College of Engineering Pune (COEP) St.Vincents High School, Pune |
| Awards | IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal (1995) Claude E. Shannon Award (2000) IEEE Medal of Honor (2007) Padma Bhushan (2009) BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2009) National Medal of Science (2012) Marconi Society Lifetime Achievement Award (2017) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Control theory |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Doctoral students | Babak Hassibi Ali H. Sayed John Cioffi |
Thomas Kailath (born June 7, 1935) is an Indian born American electrical engineer, information theorist, control engineer, entrepreneur and the Hitachi America Professor of Engineering emeritus at Stanford University. Professor Kailath has authored several books, including the well-known book Linear Systems, which ranks as one of the most referenced books in the field of linear systems.
Kailath was elected as a member into the US National Academy of Engineering in 1984 for outstanding contributions in prediction, filtering, and signal processing, and for leadership in engineering.
In 2012, Kailath was awarded the National Medal of Science, presented by President Barack Obama in 2014 for "transformative contributions to the fields of information and system science, for distinctive and sustained mentoring of young scholars, and for translation of scientific ideas into entrepreneurial ventures that have had a significant impact on industry."[1][2] Kailath is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher and is generally recognized as one of the preeminent figures of twentieth-century electrical engineering.[3]
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- ^ "President Obama Honors Nation's Top Scientists and Innovators". whitehouse.gov. 2014-10-03 – via National Archives.
- ^ "Kailath, Thomas, ISI Highly Cited Researchers". Archived from the original on March 4, 2006. Retrieved 2009-06-20.