Mathukumalli Vidyasagar FRS (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.
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"
1984: the Frederick Emmons Terman Award from the American Society for Engineering Education
2004: IEEE Spectrum named him as one of forty "Tech Gurus"
2008: the IEEE Control Systems Award
2012: Became a Fellow of Royal Society
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