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Sanjoy
K. Mitter
Professor
of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science
and
Engineering Systems
Sanjoy
K. Mitter received his Ph.D. degree
from the Imperial College of Science
and Technology, University of London,
in 1965. He had previously worked
as a research engineer at Brown Boveri
& Co. Ltd., Switzerland (now ASEA
Brown Boveri) and Battelle Institute
in Geneva, Switzerland. He taught
at Case Western Reserve University
from 1965 to 1969 and joined MIT in
1969, first as a Visiting Professor
and then in 1970 as Associate Professor
in the Department of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science and in 1973 as
a Professor of Electrical Engineering. He
was the Director of the MIT Laboratory
for Information and Decision Systems
from 1981 to 1999 and Director of
the Center for Intelligent Control
Systems, an inter-university (Brown-Harvard-MIT)
center for research on the foundations
of intelligent systems from 1986-2000. He
has held visiting positions at the
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,
Bombay, India; Scuola Normale Superiore,
Pisa, Italy; Imperial College of Science
and Technology; Institut National
de Recherche en Informatique et en
Automatique, France; University of
Groningen, the Netherlands; ETH, Zürich,
Switzerland and several universities
in the United States including the
University of California, Berkeley
where he was the McKay Professor in
March 2000, and held the Russell-Severance-Springer
Chair in Fall 2003.
Professor
Mitter's research has spanned the
broad areas of Systems, Communication
and Control. Although his primary
contributions have been on the theoretical
foundations of the field, he has also
contributed to significant engineering
applications, notably in the control
of interconnected power systems, character
recognition, and automatic recognition
and classification of electrocardiograms.
His current research interests are
theory of stochastic dynamical systems,
nonlinear filtering, stochastic and
adaptive control; mathematical physics
and its relationship to system theory;
image analysis and computer vision;
and structure, function and organization
of complex systems.
Professor
Mitter has served on several advisory
committees and editorial boards for
IEEE, SIAM, AMS, NSF and ARO. He is
currently Associate Editor of the
Journal of Applied Mathematics and
Optimization; Random and Computational
Dynamics; Sankhya and the Ulam Quarterly
and Editor-at-Large for Communications
in Information and Systems. In 1992
and 1993, Professor Mitter co-authored
a two-volume book, Bensoussan, A.,
Da Prato, G., Delfour, M.C. and Mitter,
S.K., Representation and Control of
Infinite Dimensional Systems, Vol.
I, Birkhauser-Boston, 1992, Volume
II, 1993. He is a fellow of the IEEE
and was the recipient of the 2000
IEEE Control Systems Award.
In 1988 he was elected to the National
Academy of Engineering. He was
elected a Foreign Member of Istituto
Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti
in 2003.
Related News:
Prof.
Mitter wins Bellman award – April
18, 2007
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