Venkataramanan Balakrishnan
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MS, electrical engineering, 1989, MS, statistics, 1992, PhD, electrical engineering, 1992, Stanford University
Venkataramanan Balakrishnan | |
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| Born | India |
| Academic background | |
| Education | B. Tech, IIT Madras MS, electrical engineering, 1989, MS, statistics, 1992, PhD, electrical engineering, 1992, Stanford University |
| Thesis | Global optimization in control system analysis and design (1992) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Case Western Reserve University Purdue University School of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Venkataramanan "Ragu" Balakrishnan is an Indian–American engineer. He is the Charles H. Phipps Dean at the Case School of Engineering, having previously served as the Michael and Katherine Birck Head Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. In 2012, Balakrishnan was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for his contributions to convex optimization in control systems.
Balakrishnan was born and raised in India. His father was a chemistry graduate who worked for a paper company while his sister works in computer systems.[1] He received a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from IIT Madras, receiving the President of India Gold Medal for academic excellence. He then travelled to the United States where he enrolled at Stanford University for his Master of Science (MS) degree in statistics followed by a M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering.[2] Following his PhD, Balakrishnan conducted his postdoctoral research at the A. James Clark School of Engineering with Andre Tits. During this time, he focused on semi-definite programming and co-authored two papers: "Robustness under Bounded Uncertainty with Phase Information," and ISR Technical Report 97-23, "Absolute Stability Theory, Mu Theory and State-Space Verification of Frequency-Domain Conditions: Connections and Implications for Computation."[3]
