Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 25, 2003|Volume 31, Number 27

Kumpati Narendra lauded for his work in engineering

Yale electrical engineer Kumpati S. Narendra has won the prestigious Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award for pioneering contributions to stability theory, adaptive and learning systems theory, and for inspiring leadership as a mentor, adviser and teacher for over four decades.

The Bellman Control Heritage Award is the highest recognition of professional achievement for U.S. control systems engineers and scientists. Richard E. Bellman, for whom the award is named, was an applied mathematician who pioneered the development of system theory as an academic discipline in the 1950s and 1960s. Narendra will accept his award at the American Control Conference in Denver, Colorado, in June.

Narendra, who is internationally known for his work on complex systems that can learn and adapt to new environments, is director of the Yale Center for Systems Science. He was recently appointed to the Harold W. Cheel Professorship in Electrical Engineering. (See the March 28 issue of the Yale Bulletin & Calendar.)

The Bellman Award is unique among the American Automatic Control Council (AACC) awards in that it is made for lifetime contributions to control and systems engineering. Such contributions may cover a range of technical areas or may have been put into practice in several different fields. The winner of the Bellman Award usually has been involved with the interaction of control or system theory with other scientific disciplines, with the engineering profession, and/or with the implications of controls for society at large.

The AACC is an association of the control systems divisions of eight member societies: the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Association of Iron and Steel Engineers, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, The Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society, and the Society for Computer Simulation.

The AACC is the U.S. National Member Organization of IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control). The AACC sponsors the American Control Conference held annually, usually in June.

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