Thomas
Kailath born in Pune (India) in 1935 graduated in
Engineering from College of Engineering, Pune in 1956.
He moved to US in 1957 and subsequently completed his
Electrical Enginerering from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (S.M., June 1959, Sc.D., June 1961). Tom
has also received honorary doctorates from Linkoping
University,Sweden, in 1990, Strathclyde University
,Scotland, in 1992, the University of Carlos III, Madrid
,Spain, in 1999 and the University of Bordeaux I in
2003.
Initially
he worked in the Communications Research division of the
Jet Propulsion Laboratories, Pasadena, CA, and also
taught part-time at the California Institute of
Technology. Since then he has been at Stanford
University, where he is currently Hitachi America
Professor of Engineering, Emeritus. He was appointed
Acting Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at
Stanford University in Jan. 1963, Associate Professor in
Sep.1964, and Professor in September 1968. He served as
Director of the Information Systems Laboratory from 1971
through 1980, as Associate Department Chair from 1981 to
1987, and was then appointed the first holder of the
Hitachi America Professorship in Engineering. He assumed
Emeritus status in June 2001, but has been recalled to
active duty to continue his research and writing
activities.
Prof
Tom has also had been for short term assignments at
several top institutions vis-a-vis 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.
Concurrently,
he contributed to several fields of mathematics,
especially stochastic processes, operator theory and
linear algebra and authored may books on Linear Systems.
He is an Honorary Editor of the J.of Linear Algebra and
its Applications and of the Journal of Integral
Equations and Operator Theory, besides serving on the
editorial boards of several other engineering and
mathematics journals. He has served since 1963 as
founding editor of a Prentice Hall series of books in
nformation and System Sciences. The following are the
brief list of award he received for his contribution
| 1 |
Outstanding
Paper Prize for 1965-1966 of IEEE
Information Theory Group |
| 2 |
Guggenheim
Fellowship, 1969-1970 |
| 3 |
Fellow,
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and
Electronic Engineers), 1970 |
| 4 |
Fellow,
Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 1975 |
| 5 |
President,
IEEE Information Theory Group 1975; led
IEEE Delegation to First IEEE-USSR
Workshop on Inform. Theory, Moscow, USSR,
Dec. 1975 |
| 6 |
Churchill
Fellowship, Cambridge University, England,
1977. |
| 7 |
Life
Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge
University, England, 1977 |
| 8 |
Outstanding
Paper Prize for 1983 of IEEE Acoustics,
Speech and Signal Processing Society |
| 9 |
Erna
and Jacob Michael Visiting Chair of
Theoretical Mathematics, Weizmann
Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel,
April-June 1984 |
| 10 |
Elected
to the National Academy of Engineering,
1984 |
| 11 |
John
R. Ragazzini Award, American Automatic
Control Council, 1986 |
| 12 |
Honorary
Fellow, Institute of Electronics and
Telecommunication Engineers, India, 1986 |
| 13 |
Engineering
Achievement Award from the National
Federation of Asian Indian Organizations
in the USA, Anaheim, CA, 1986 |
| 14 |
International
Federation of Automatic Control Citation
for Outstanding Contribution, 1987 |
| 15 |
Centennial
Lecturer on Applied Mathematics, AMS(Amer.
Math. Soc.)/SIAM(Soc. Indus. Appl.
Math.),1988 |
| 16 |
Technical
Achievement Award of the IEEE Acoustics,
Speech and Signal Processing Society, 1989 |
| 17 |
Royal
Society Guest Research Fellowship,
Imperial College, Department of Electrical
Engineering, London, England, Summer 1989 |
| 18 |
Doctor
Honoris Causa in Engineering, Linköping
Institute of Technology, Sweden, June 5,
1990 |
| 19 |
Society
Award of the IEEE Signal Processing
Society, May 1991 |
| 20 |
Senior
Vinton Hayes Fellow, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA,
Fall 1991. |
| 21 |
Elected
as Associate Fello of Third World Academy
of Sciences, 1991 |
| 22 |
Doctor
Honoris Causa in Engineering,
Strathclyde University, Scotland, 1992 |
| 23 |
IEEE
Circuits & Systems Society Education
Award, 1993 |
| 24 |
Outstanding
Paper Prize, IEEE Transactions on
Semiconductor Manufacturing,1993 |
| 25 |
Elected
to the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, 1994. |
| 26 |
Outstanding
Paper Prize, European Signal Processing
Society, 1994 |
| 27 |
Education
Medal of the IEEE, 1995. |
| 28 |
Donald
G. Fink Prize Paper Award of the IEEE,
1996 |
| 29 |
Stevin
Medal and Inaugural Stevin Lecture, Delft
Institute of Technology, The Netherlands,
1996. |
| 30 |
Elected,
Indian National Academy of Engineering,
1997. |
| 31 |
IEEE
Information Theory Society Golden Jubilee
Paper Award, 1998. |
| 32 |
Doctor
Honoris Causa in Engineering, University of Carlos III,
Madrid, Spain, 1999. |
| 33 |
IEEE
Circuits and Systems Society Golden
Jubilee Medal, 2000 |
| 34 |
IEEE
Millenium Medal, 2000 |
| 35 |
Elected
to the National Academy of Sciences, 2000. |
| 36 |
Shannon
Award, IEEE Information Theory Society,
2000. |
| 37 |
Distinguished
Editors Board, Journal of Linear Algebra
and its Applications, 2001 |
| 38 |
Distinguished
Editors Board, Journal of Integral
Equations and Operator Theory,2001 |
| 39 |
Distinguished
Scholar award, American University of
Beirut, 2002. |
| 40 |
Doctor
Honoris Causa in Engineering,
University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France,
March 2003. |
| 41 |
Elected
as Corresponding Member (Foreign
Associate) of the Royal Spanish Academy of
Engineering April 2003. |
| 42 |
Alexander
von Humboldt Senior Research Award, June
2003 |
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