Mathukumalli Vidyasagar | |
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Born | |
Nationality | Indian |
Alma mater | University of Wisconsin |
Known for | Contributions to control theory |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Control Systems |
Doctoral advisor | Thomas J. Higgins |
Doctoral students | Kirsten Morris |
Mathukumalli Vidyasagar FRS[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.[citation needed]
His Erdős number is two and his Einstein number is three.[2]