Thomas Kailath
Thomas Kailath (born June 7, 1935 in Pune ) is an Indian-American information theorist and electrical engineer.
Life
Kailath received his degree in communications engineering from the College of Engineering in Pune (then Poona) in 1956 and his master's degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1959 , where he received his PhD from Jack Wozencraft in 1961 (communication via randomly varying channels) with a Work on communication in constantly changing disturbed channels (at that time with a military background, later with application to cellular networks). In 1961/62 he was at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (and taught at Caltech ) and in 1964 he became Associate Professor and 1968 Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University . From 1971 to 1981 he was director of the Information Systems Laboratory and from 1981 to 1987 deputy director of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. From 1988 until his retirement in 2001 he was Hitachi America Professor there .
He has been a visiting scholar at Imperial College, MIT , TU Munich , UCLA , Cambridge, Leuven, the Weizmann Institute , TU Delft , Berkeley, Bell Laboratories, the Indian Statistical Institute and the Indian Institute of Science.
He is the co-founder of several high-tech companies, including 1980 Integrated Systems, 1995 Numerical Technologies (acquired by Synopsys), 1998 Excess Bandwidth Corporation.
He has been a US citizen since 1976.
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Among other things, Kailath dealt with signal processing and signal detection including the development of antennas. With his doctoral student Ralph Schmidt, he developed the basis for better directional sensitivity of signal detection in antenna arrays, from which the Esprit algorithm by Arogyaswami Paulraj arose (patented by Paulraj and Kailath) and in the 1990s MIMO antenna systems (multiple input-multiple output). He was also involved in the design of VLSI circuits, especially for signal processing, and associated algorithm development, with linear systems, on which he published an influential textbook in 1980, with contributions to related mathematical areas such as linear algebra and in the 1990s with chip- Production. With his colleague Stephen Boyd he developed a method with several heat sources to heat the wafers quickly and in a controlled manner in furnaces and he dealt with optical distortions in lithography and their compensation (phase-shift masks), marketed with his company Numerical Technologies .
In his company Integrated Systems he developed Matlab-like software for control theory.
Honors and memberships
He received the Claude E. Shannon Award in 2000 , the IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal in 2006, the IEEE Medal of Honor in 2007 and the Padma Bhushan Prize and the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in 2009 . He is a Fellow of the IEEE (1970) and the American Mathematical Society , a member of the National Academy of Engineering , the National Academy of Sciences , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Indian National Academy of Engineering.
Fonts
- Linear Systems, Prentice-Hall 1980 (the book received the IEEE Education Medal)
- with Ali H. Sayed, Babak Hassibi: Linear Estimation, Prentice-Hall 2000
- with Kai-Yeung Siu, Vwani Roychowdhury: Discrete Neural Computation: a theoretical foundation, Prentice-Hall 1997
- with Ali H. Sayed, Babak Hassibi: Indefinite-Quadratic Estimation and Control: A Unified Approach to H2 and H-infinity Theories, SIAM 1987
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kailath, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian-American computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 7, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pune |