Kumpati S. Narendra
Encyclopedia
Kumpati S. Narendra is an American control theorist
, who currently holds the Harold W. Cheel Professorship of Electrical Engineering at Yale University
. He received the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award
in 2003. He is noted "for pioneering contributions to stability theory, adaptive and learning systems theory".
Narendra obtained his Ph.D.
at Harvard University
in 1959. He is the Ph.D. advisor to the Harvard control theorist Yu-Chi Ho
, who also received the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award.
Control theory
Control theory is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering and mathematics that deals with the behavior of dynamical systems. The desired output of a system is called the reference...
, who currently holds the Harold W. Cheel Professorship of Electrical Engineering at Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
. He received the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award
Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award
The Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award is an annual award given by the American Automatic Control Council for achievements in control theory, named after the applied mathematician Richard E. Bellman...
in 2003. He is noted "for pioneering contributions to stability theory, adaptive and learning systems theory".
Narendra obtained his Ph.D.
Ph.D.
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at Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
in 1959. He is the Ph.D. advisor to the Harvard control theorist Yu-Chi Ho
Yu-Chi Ho
This article is about the Chinese-American mathematician.Yu-Chi "Larry" Ho is a renowned Chinese-American mathematician, control theorist, and a professor at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University.He is the co-author of Applied Optimal Control, and an influential...
, who also received the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award.