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CURRICULUM VITAE

Born in Poona (now Pune) India, June 7, 1935. In US since 1957; naturalized:June 8, 1976
B.E. (Telecom.), College of Engineering,Pune, India, June 1956.
S.M. (Elec. Eng.), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June, 1959.
Thesis: Sampling Models for Time-Variant Filters
Sc.D. (Elec. Eng.), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 1961
Thesis: Communication via Randomly Varying Channels

Fields of Interest: Information Theory, Communication, Computation, Control, Linear Systems, Statistical Signal Processing, VLSI systems, Semiconductor Manufacturing and Lithography. Also Probability, Statistics, Linear Algebra, and Operator Theory.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

He was a research assistant at the MIT Research Laboratory for Electronics from Sep 1957-Jun, 1962, and then worked in the Communications Systems Division, Jet Propulsion Labs, Pasadena, CA, and also taught part-time at Caltech, before joining Stanford University in Jan 1963 as an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering. He was promoted to Full Professor in 1968, and appointed the first holder of the Hitachi America Professorship in Engineering in 1988. He took emeritus status in Jun 2001, but has been recalled to active duty to continue his research and writing activities.

He has also held shorter-term appointments at several institutions around the world, including Bell Labs, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Cambridge University, K.U. Leuven, T.U.Delft, the Indian Institute of Science, the Indian Statistical Institute, Imperial College, the Weizmann Institute, T. U. Munich, and M.I.T.

Director, Information Systems Laboratory, Stanford: Jan 1971 - Jan 1981.

Helped build the lab via:

Faculty Development: from 3 Full, 2 Associate, 2 Assistant Professors in 1971 to 8 Full, 2 Associate and 3 Assistant Professors in 1981.

Computer Development: from none in 1971 to three VAX 11/780s in 1981, used by 100 graduate students, 8 secretaries, 13 faculty.

Space: moved to new location: developed special TV monitoring and videotaping facilities and research library.

Industrial Affiliates: started the program, with members contributing $10,000 annually in unrestricted funds, used chiefly for computing and space and faculty development.
Center for Integrated Systems: helped with planning, presentations to potential sponsors, attracting new faculty, co-principal investigator on the first DARPA research program in VLSI Design and Signal Processing.

Associate Chair, Dept. of Elec. Eng.: Jan 1981 – Jun 1987: responsible for financial analysis, planning, incentives, computerization.

Executive Committee, Dept. of Elec. Eng.: Jan 1971-Jun 1987.

Academic Senate, Stanford University :199 - 199 and 1998-2000

Companies co-founded with students

In 1980 (well before it became a fashion ): Integrated Systems, Inc., a
pioneer in software for computer-aided control. systems and later of embedded software. The company went public in 1990 and merged with Wind River Systems in 1999.

In 1995: Numerical Technologies, Inc., developing resolution enhancement
technologies for sub-wavelength optical lithography. It went public in April
2000; acquired by Synopsys, Inc., in 2003.

In 1998: Excess Bandwidth Corporation, designing chipsets for DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) systems; acquired in 2003 by Virata (of Cambridge, UK).

In 2004: Clearshape Technologies,  DFM (design for manufacturing) solutions
for 65nm and 45nm chip designs; acquired by Cadence in 2007.

  

MAJOR AWARDS AND HONORS

Academies

US National Academy of Engineering, 1984: “for contributions to prediction and filtering and for leadership in engineering.”

American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1994

US National Academy of Sciences, 2000

TWAS (Academy of Sciences of the Developing World), 1991-Foreign Associate

Indian National Academy of Engineering, 1997-Foreign Member

Royal Spanish Academy of Engineering, 2003- Foreign Member

Honorary Degrees

1990: Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

1992: Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland

1999: University of Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

2003: University of Bordeaux I, Bordeaux, France

Major Medals

IEEE Medal of Honor, 2007: “for exceptional contributions to the development of powerful algorithms for communications, control, computing and signal processing.”

IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal, 2006: “for seminal contributions to the theory and applications of statistical signal processing.”

IEEE Education Medal, 1995: “for leadership in graduate engineering education through a classic textbook in linear systems and creative interdisciplinary research.”

Inaugural Simon Stevin Medal and Lecture, Delft University, the Netherlands, 1996

Major Fellowships

Guggenheim Fellowship: Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 1969-1970

Churchill Fellowship: Churchill College, Cambridge University, Spring 1977

Michael Visiting Chair in Mathematics:Weizmann Institute, Spring 1984

Royal Society Guest Research Summer Fellowship: Imperial College, 1989

MIT Senior Vinton Hayes Fellowship:  EE Dept,,MIT,  Fall 1991

Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship: Indian Institute of Science, 1993-94

Humboldt Research Fellowship: Technical Univ. of Munich, June 2003-

Some Named Lectures

American Math Society/SIAM Centennial Lecture in Applied Mathematics, 1988: A Century of Signal Processing

Charles Edison Lecture, University of Notre Dame, USA, 1991: Do Real Engineers use Theory?

Inaugural Simon Stevin Lecture, Delft University, The Netherlands, 1996: Research Universities: Looking Before and After.

Homi J. Bhabha Memorial Lecture, Inst.of Electronics and Telecom Engineers, India, 2000: Challenges in Telecommunications.

Annual Linear Algebra and Applications Lecture, Dept of Mathematics, Univ. of

Wisconsin, Madison, 2002: Displacement Structure: Theory and Applications.

Rustagi Memorial Lecture, Dept of Statistics, Ohio State University, 2001: The Structure of Likelihood Ratios.

Otto Toeplitz Memorial Lectures, Dept. of Mathematics, Tel Aviv University, 1980

Issai Schur Memorial Lectures, Dept. of Mathematics, Tel Aviv University, Israel, 1990

Some Other Honors

TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs), 2007: Lifetime Achievement Award Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame, 2006

IEEE: Fellow, 1970: “for creative contributions to, and inspired teaching of, information, communication and control theory”

IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award,1996: "for a survey paper in the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine- the first such recognition for any IEEE Magazine paper"

IEEE Information Theory Society: President, 1975.

IEEE Information Theory Society: Claude Shannon Award, 2000: “for consistent and profound contributions to Information Theory.”

IEEE Signal Processing Society, Technical Achievement Award, 1988: “for contributions to a broad range of areas in signal processing including statistical spectral estimation, sensor array processing, and the design of VLSI array architectures.”

IEEE Signal Processing Society, Society Award, 1990: “for outstanding leadership and fundamental contributions to signal processing, including array processing and algorithms.”

IEEE Circuits and Systems Society: Education Award, 1993: “for outstanding
contributions to all facets of education in the fields of signal processing, linear system theory and VLSI design.”

American Control Council: John R Ragazzini Education Award, 1988: “in recognition
of outstanding contributions and distinguished leadership in automatic control
education.”

Institute of Mathematical Statistics: Fellow, 1975

Churchill College, Cambridge: Overseas Life Fellow, 1977

Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, India, Honorary Fellow,1986.

Honorary Editorial Board, Journal of Linear Algebra and its Applications, 2001

Distinguished Editorial Board, Journal of Integral Equations and Operator Theory, 2001

In 2005, to celebrate his 70th birthday, several former students endowed an Annual Kailath Lecture and Colloquium - see http://isl.stanford.edu/kailathlecture.

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Several undergraduate scholarships and prizes in India. Ranked first out of about 100,000 students in pre-engineering entrance examination. First student from India to receive doctorate in electrical engineering from MIT.

Outstanding Paper Prize for 1965-1966 of IEEE Information Theory Group

President, IEEE Information Theory Group 1975; led IEEE Delegation to First IEEE-USSR Workshop on Inform. Theory, Moscow, USSR, Dec. 1975.

Outstanding Paper Prize for 1983 of IEEE Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing Society.

Engineering Achievement Award from the National Federation of Asian Indian Organizations in the USA, Anaheim, CA, 1986

International Federation of Automatic Control Citation for Outstanding Contribution, 1987.

Centennial Lecturer on Applied Mathematics, AMS(Amer. Math. Soc.)/SIAM(Soc. Indus. Appl. Math.),1988

Outstanding Paper Prize, IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing,1993

Outstanding Paper Prize, European Signal Processing Society, 1994

IEEE Information Theory Society Golden Jubilee Paper Award, 1998.

IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Golden Jubilee Medal, 2000

IEEE Millenium Medal, 2000

Distinguished Scholar award, American University of Beirut, 2002.

  

RECENT KEYNOTE AND PLENARY LECTURES

Plenary Lecture, Workshop on Multimedia, University of Bordeaux, France, March 2003

Plenary Lecture IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Bangalore, India, October 2002

Annual Linear Algebra and Applications Lecture, Dept of Mathematics, Univ. Of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, Apr 2002

Distinguished Lecture, Dept of Elec. Eng., Princeton University, May 2002

Rustagi Memorial Lecture , Dept of Statistics, Ohio State University, May 2001

Distinguished Lecture, Dept of Elec. Eng., Carnegie Mellon University, May 2001

Shannon Lecture, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Sorrento, Italy, June 2000

Distinguished Lecture, Dept of Elec. Eng., Iowa State University, Apr 2000

Plenary Lecture, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Golden Jubilee Symposium, Geneva, Switzerland, May 2000

Distinguished Lecture, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, May 1999.

Plenary Lecture, Eighth IEEE Digital Signal Processing Workshop, Bryce Canyon, Utah, Aug 1998.

Plenary Lecture, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, MIT, Aug 1998.

Distinguished Speaker Series, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Texas A & M University, May 1998.

Inaugural Stevin Lecture, Delft Institute of Technology, The Netherlands, 1996.

Plenary Lecture, Applied Linear Algebra for Signal Processing Workshop, (IMA Symposium), Minneapolis, MN, April 1992.

Keynote Lecture, Workshop on Fast Algorithms and Parallel Architectures, Bonas, France, July 1991.

The Charles Edison Lecture, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, April 1991.

Plenary Lecture, Second SIAM Conference on Linear Algebra in Signals, Systems and Control, San Francisco, CA, November 1990.

Keynote Lecture, Twenty-Fourth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Asilomar, CA, November 1990.

Plenary Lecture, Eliahu I. and Joyce Jury Award Symposium, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, October 1990.

Plenary Lecture, Math. Assoc. of America Annual Meeting, Louisville, KY, January 1990.

Keynote Lecture, International Symposium on Systems Science, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, August 1989.

Plenary Lecture, International Symposium on the Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS-89), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 1989

Keynote Lecture, NATO Advanced Study Institute on Signal Processing and Parallel Computing, Leuven, Belgium, August 1988.

Centennial Lecture, SIAM National Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, July 1988.

Plenary Lecture, Army Conference of Mathematicians, Boulder, CO, June 1988.

Plenary Lecture, Third SIAM Linear Algebra Conference, Madison, WI, May 1988.

Plenary Lecture, 1987 IEEE Region 10 Conference (TENCON) on Computers and Communications Technology Toward 2000, Seoul, Korea, August 1987.

Lecturer, American Mathematical Society Short Course on `Moments in Mathematics,' San Antonio, TX, January 1987.

Plenary Lecture, Platinum Jubilee Conference on Systems and Signal Processing, Indian Institute of Science, India, December 1986.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

1963-present: Editor, Prentice-Hall Series on Information Sciences & Systems

1966-present : Editorial Advisory Board of several engineering and mathematics journals

1967-1971: Communication Theory Technical Committee, IEEE Communications Society

1971-1977: Board of Governors, IEEE Control Systems Society

1972-1978: Board of Governors, IEEE Information Theory Society

1972-1980: IEEE Press Board

1975: President, IEEE Information Theory Society

1982-1985: IEEE Honorary Member Awards Committee

1986-1988: Air Force Office of Scientific Research Mathematics Advisory Board

1987-1988: Office of Naval Research Electronics Review Panel

1988-1990: National Science Foundation, Advisory Board, Microelectronics Systems Program

1988-2001: Technical Advisory Panel, Hitachi America Ltd.

1990-1993: Peer Review Committee, National Academy of Engineering

1990-1995: VLSI Signal Processing Committee, IEEE Signal Processing Society

1990-1997: DARPA Defense Sciences Research Council

1993-1995: Chairman, Wiener Prize Committee, American Mathematical Society

2002: Class Membership Committee, National Academy of Sciences

SERVICE ON EDITORIAL BOARDS

Acta Mathematicae Applicandae (1981 - 1991)

IEEE Signal Processing Society Magazine (1988 - 1989)

Applied Mathematics and Computation (1979 - 1999)

Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing (1987 - 2001)

International Journal of Control (1979 - 1990)

Journal of Combinatorics, Information and System Sciences (1975 - 1995)

Journal of VLSI Signal Processing (1988 - 1998)

Mathematics of Control, Systems and Signals (1986 - 1989)

Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing (1989 - 2001)

Systems and Control Letters (1980 - 1988)

Stochastic Analysis and Applications (1987 -2000)

Siam Journal on Matrix Analysis (1987 - 1990)

IETE Journal (Inst. of Elec. and Telecom. Engineers), India (1985 - present)

Integral Equations and Operator Theory (1977 - present)

Linear Algebra and Its Applications (1987-present)

Asian Journal of Mathematics; (1997-present)

Series Editor, Information and System Sciences, Prentice-Hall, 1963-present

Consultant over the years to several industries: Melpar, Sylvania, Ampex,

General Electric, Lincoln Labs, Bell Labs, Mobil, Rockwell, IBM, Lockheed, Hitachi,

and others.

Consultant to several universities and research centers - in India, Australia, Israel,

Kuwait, Holland.

Consultant to the Government of India on troposcatter communications, 1970-1972.

Initiated a scheme for centers of advanced research in electronics at the 5 Indian

Institutes of Technology and the Indian Institute of Science.

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