Mathukumalli Vidyasagar [People in Control]

In this issue of IEEE Control Systems Magazine, we speak with Mathukamalli Vidyasagar (Sagar) who is the Cecil and Ida Green Chair in Systems Biology Science and head of the Bioengineering Department in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas). Before moving to UT Dallas, he was the executive vice president of Tata Consultancy Services, where he created the Advanced Technology Center, an industrial R&D laboratory of around 80 engineers, working in areas such as computational biology, quantitative finance, e-security, identity management, and open-source software to support Indian languages. He is recipient of the IEEE Control Systems Society´s Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize, the IEEE Control Systems Award, and a Fellow of IEEE. He is the author of nearly a dozen textbooks.