Pravin Varaiya

Pravin Pratap Varaiya (born 1940) is Nortel Networks Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.[1] He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 1963, also from Berkeley.

Pravin Varaiya
Born1940 (age 80–81)
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
ThesisNonlinear Programming and Optimal Control (1966)
Doctoral advisorLotfi A. Zadeh
Doctoral studentsJean Walrand
Mark H. A. Davis
Andrea Goldsmith
Steven H. Low
Vivek Borkar
Websitepaleale.eecs.berkeley.edu/~varaiya/

He has worked in the areas of control, communication networks and transportation systems. He is the author of High-Performance Communication Networks (with Jean Walrand and Andrea Goldsmith) (2nd edn., Morgan-Kaufmann, 2000).

In 1980, Varaiya became a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).[2] In 1999, he was elected to membership of the National Academy of Engineering[3] and in 2006 he became Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[4] In 2002, he received the IEEE Control Systems Award, "for outstanding contributions to stochastic and adaptive control and the unification of concepts from control and computer science".[5] In 2008, he received the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award from the American Automatic Control Council, "for pioneering contributions to stochastic control, hybrid systems and the unification of theories of control and computation".[6]

Among his students was Jan van Schuppen.

References
  1. EECS Berkeley Archived April 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  2. "Fellow Class of 1980". IEEE. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
  3. "NAE Members Directory - Dr. Pravin P. Varaiya". NAE. Retrieved 5 April 2011.
  4. "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter V" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 5 April 2011.
  5. "IEEE Control Systems Award Recipients" (PDF). IEEE. Retrieved 5 April 2011.
    - "IEEE Control Systems Award". IEEE Control Systems Society. Archived from the original on 19 December 2010. Retrieved 5 April 2011.
  6. "Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award". American Automatic Control Council. Retrieved 10 February 2013.


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