Mathukumalli Vidyasagar

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1947|9|29|df=y}}

| birth_place = Guntur, Madras State, India (now Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India)

| nationality = Indian

| field = Control Systems

| alma_mater = University of Wisconsin

| doctoral_advisor = Thomas J. Higgins

| doctoral_students = Kirsten Morris

| known_for = Contributions to control theory

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Mathukumalli Vidyasagar {{small|FRS}}{{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/mathukumalli-vidyasagar-12460/ |title=Royal Society Fellowship Page |publisher=Royal Society |accessdate=23 April 2012}} (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.{{fact|date=October 2019}}

His Erdős number is two and his Einstein number is three.{{Cite web|title=Mathukumalli Vidyasagar - UT Dallas: CV|url=https://personal.utdallas.edu/~m.vidyasagar/CV.html|website=personal.utdallas.edu|access-date=28 May 2020}}

Early life and education

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

Career

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

Awards and honors

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"{{cite web|url=http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/fellows/alphabetical/vfellows.html#Ve |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110312103523/http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/fellows/alphabetical/vfellows.html#Ve |url-status=dead |archive-date=12 March 2011 |title=Fellows - V |publisher=IEEE |accessdate=21 January 2011}}
1984: the Frederick Emmons Terman Award from the American Society for Engineering Education{{cite web|url=http://www.asee.org/member-resources/awards/full-list-of-awards/awards-archive/past-division-award-winners-2#Electrical_and_Computer_Engineering_Division |title=Past Frederick Emmons Terman Award Winners |publisher=American Society for Engineering Education |accessdate=21 January 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130402171545/http://www.asee.org/member-resources/awards/full-list-of-awards/awards-archive/past-division-award-winners-2 |archivedate=2 April 2013 }}
2004: IEEE Spectrum named him as one of forty "Tech Gurus"
2008: the IEEE Control Systems Award{{cite web|url=http://www.ieee.org/documents/control_sys_rl.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100619234827/http://ieee.org/documents/control_sys_rl.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=19 June 2010 |title=IEEE Control Systems Award Recipients |publisher=IEEE |accessdate=21 January 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://www.ieeecss.org/main/awards/control-systems-field-award |title=IEEE Control Systems Award |publisher=IEEE Control Systems Society |accessdate=21 January 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101229173014/http://www.ieeecss.org/main/awards/control-systems-field-award |archivedate=29 December 2010 }}
2012: Became a Fellow of Royal Society{{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/mathukumalli-vidyasagar-12460/ |title=Royal Society Fellowship Page |publisher=Royal Society |accessdate=23 April 2012}}
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

Books

{{cite book |last=Desoer |first=Charles A. |title=Feedback Systems |last2=Vidyasagar |first2=M. |date=1975-01-01 |publisher=SIAM |isbn=978-0-89871-905-5}}
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
{{cite book | last=Vidyasagar | first=Mathukumalli | title=Synthesis Lectures on Control and Mechatronics | chapter=Control Systems Synthesis | publisher=Springer International Publishing | publication-place=Cham | year=2011 | isbn=978-3-031-00700-2 | issn=1939-0564 | doi=10.1007/978-3-031-01828-2}}