Mathukumalli Vidyasagar (born September 29, 1947) is a leading control theorist. He is currently the Cecil & Ida Green (II) Professor of Systems Biology Science at the University of Texas at Dallas

University of Texas at Dallas

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. Prior to that he was an executive vice-president at Tata Consultancy Services

Tata Consultancy Services

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 (TCS) where he headed the Advanced Technology Center. Earlier, he was the director of Center for Artificial intelligence and Robotics (CAIR), a DRDO defence lab in Bangalore

Bangalore

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Awards and honors

Vidyasagar received several awards and honors, including:

• 1983: IEEE Fellow
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   of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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   (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
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• 2004: IEEE Spectrum
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   named him as one of forty "Tech Gurus"
• 2008: the IEEE Control Systems Award
  IEEE Control Systems Award
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Publications

• 2006. Robot modeling and control. with S. Hutchinson and Mark W. Spong
• 1989. Robot dynamics and control. with Mark W. Spong
• 1985. Control System Synthesis: A Factorization Approach (out of print)

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