Thomas Kailath was born on June 7,1935 and is an India-born American electrical engineer, information theorist, control engineer, entrepreneur and the Hitachi America Professor of Engineering emeritus at Stanford University.
16 Facts About Thomas Kailath
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Professor Kailath has authored several books, including the well-known Linear Systems.
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Thomas Kailath was elected as a member of the US National Academy of Engineering in 1984 for outstanding contributions in prediction, filtering, and signal processing, and for leadership in engineering.
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Thomas Kailath is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher and is generally recognized as one of the preeminent figures of twentieth-century electrical engineering.
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Thomas Kailath was born in 1935 in Pune, Maharashtra, India, to a Malayalam-speaking Syrian Christian family from Kerala.
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Thomas Kailath studied at St Vincent's High School, Pune and received his Bachelor's degree in telecommunications engineering from the Government College of Engineering, University of Pune in 1956.
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Thomas Kailath earned his Master's degree in 1959 and his doctorate in 1961, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Thomas Kailath was the first India-born student to receive a doctorate in electrical engineering from MIT.
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Thomas Kailath is Hitachi America Professor of Engineering emeritus at Stanford University, where he has supervised about 80 Ph.
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Thomas Kailath has co-founded several high-technology companies, including Integrated Systems, Numerical Technologies, and Excess Bandwidth Corporation.
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Thomas Kailath was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 1970.
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Thomas Kailath is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, the US National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Indian National Academy of Engineering and the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame.
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Thomas Kailath was honored with the Padma Bhushan award in 2009 by the Government of India for his contributions to Science and Engineering.
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Thomas Kailath was awarded the 2009 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Information and Communication Technology "for creating knowledge with transformative impact on the information and communication technologies that permeate everyday life".
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Thomas Kailath was married to Sarah Thomas Kailath from 1962 until her death in 2008, and they had four children: Ann, Paul, Priya and Ryan.
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In 2013, Kailath married Dr Anuradha Luther Maitra, retired economics professor, trustee and former president of the UC Santa Cruz Foundation Board, and former CEO of Floreat, Inc In 2022 a gift from the couple created the Anuradha Luther Maitra and Thomas Kailath Endowed Professorship in South Asian Studies at UC Santa Cruz to advance "research and discourse dedicated to South Asia and the South Asian diaspora".