Sanjoy K. Mitter
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Sanjoy Kumar Mitter is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT who is a noted control theorist. He has received both the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award
from the American Automatic Control Council
(2007) and the IEEE Control Systems Award
(in 2000). In 1988 he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering
"for outstanding contributions to the theory and applications of automatic control
and nonlinear filtering
".
Sanjoy K. Mitter was born in 1933 in Calcutta, India
. In 1965 he received the Ph.D. degree from Imperial College of Science and Technology, London. He taught at Case Western Reserve University
from 1965 to 1969 and joined MIT in 1969. His research has been concerned with Systems, Control and Communication. He has furnished proofs in nonlinear filtering and optimal control theory, as well as carrying out more applied work in image analysis, computation of optimal controls and reliability of electrical power systems. He was director for both the Center for Intelligent Control and the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems.
Prof. Mitter lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts
.
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...
from the American Automatic Control Council
American Automatic Control Council
The American Automatic Control Council is an organization founded in 1956 for research in control theory. It is an association of the control systems divisions of eight member societies and a member of the International Federation of Automatic Control....
(2007) and the IEEE Control Systems Award
IEEE Control Systems Award
The IEEE Control Systems Award is a technical field award given to an individual by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers "for outstanding contributions to control systems engineering, science or technology"...
(in 2000). In 1988 he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering
National Academy of Engineering
The National Academy of Engineering is a government-created non-profit institution in the United States, that was founded in 1964 under the same congressional act that led to the founding of the National Academy of Sciences...
"for outstanding contributions to the theory and applications of automatic control
Automatic control
Automatic control is the application of concepts derived from the research area of modern control theory. Automatic control is also a technology for application of control strategies. The implementing requires prior of analyzing and modeling of the subject to be controlled...
and nonlinear filtering
Filtering problem (stochastic processes)
In the theory of stochastic processes, the filtering problem is a mathematical model for a number of filtering problems in signal processing and the like. The general idea is to form some kind of "best estimate" for the true value of some system, given only some observations of that system...
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Sanjoy K. Mitter was born in 1933 in Calcutta, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. In 1965 he received the Ph.D. degree from Imperial College of Science and Technology, London. He taught at Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University is a private research university located in Cleveland, Ohio, USA...
from 1965 to 1969 and joined MIT in 1969. His research has been concerned with Systems, Control and Communication. He has furnished proofs in nonlinear filtering and optimal control theory, as well as carrying out more applied work in image analysis, computation of optimal controls and reliability of electrical power systems. He was director for both the Center for Intelligent Control and the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems.
Prof. Mitter lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...
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