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ECE professor gives lectures on Advances in Three Term Control

Dr. Shankar Bhattacharyya from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, will visit the City University of Hong Kong in December 2009 and deliver three lectures titled “Advances in Three Term Control” in the Distinguished Lecture Series of the University. The lectures cover results obtained by him and his coworkers in the field of Control Engineering. In October 2009 Bhattacharyya will also visit the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University and Santa Clara University and give lectures on the same topic. During this visit Bhattacharyya, who is also a concert artist, (www.youtube.com/user/spbsarode) will give two concerts of Indian Classical Music on the Sarode in Berkeley and Stanford respectively.
Bhattacharyya, the Robert M. Kennedy Professor, joined the Texas A&M electrical & computer engineering faculty in 1980. Prior to this he was professor and head of the electrical engineering department at the Federal University in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His honors include being chosen as a NASA Research Fellow in 1974 and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 1989. Bhattacharyya won a Fulbright Lecturing Award in 1989, was chosen as a TEES Fellow in 1989 and TEES Senior Fellow in 2000, a Halliburton Professor in 1991 and won a Boeing “A.D. Welliver” Faculty Fellowship from Boeing Corporation in 1998. He has given invited lectures and short courses in the United States, Italy, Japan, Korea, Brazil, Germany, India and Mexico.
Bhattacharyya’s research focus is control theory, a field in which he has solved several fundamental synthesis and design problems, published six books and more than 200 papers. His current research is directed at developing new approaches for Computer Aided Control System Design (CACSD) for multivariable systems that will enable advanced control theory to be applied to real world systems.