Mathukumalli Vidyasagar

Mathukumalli Vidyasagar FRS[1] (born 29 September 1947) is a leading control theorist and a Fellow of Royal Society.

He is currently a Distinguished Professor in Electrical Engineering at IIT Hyderabad.

Previously he was the Cecil & Ida Green (II) Chair of Systems Biology Science at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Prior to that he was an executive vice-president at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) where he headed the Advanced Technology Center.

Earlier, he was the director of Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR), a DRDO defence lab in Bangalore.