15 Facts About Vivek Borkar

Vivek Shripad Borkar was born on 1954 and is an Indian electrical engineer, mathematician and an Institute chair professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.

Vivek Borkar is known for introducing analytical paradigm in stochastic optimal control processes and is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz.

Vivek Borkar holds elected fellowships of The World Academy of Sciences, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Indian National Academy of Engineering and the American Mathematical Society.

Vivek Borkar received the TWAS Prize of the World Academy of Sciences in 2009.

Vivek Borkar served IISc till 1999 and held the post of an associate professor at the time of his appointment at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research as a professor.

Vivek Borkar held various ranks of professorship at TIFR such as grades H to I and on his superannuation in 2011 as a Distinguished Professor, he moved to his alma mater, IIT Bombay, where he holds the position of a chair professor at the School of Technology and Computer Science.

Vivek Borkar's researches were mainly in the fields of Stochastic control, Learning control theory and random processes and he is known to have introduced a new convex analytical paradigm based upon occupation measures.

Vivek Borkar's work is reported to have assisted in bettering the understanding of Stochastic control issues and elucidated adaptive control schemes with regard to asymptotic optimality.

Vivek Borkar has worked on Distributed computation, Multiple timescales, Approximation and learning algorithms, Multiagent problems and Small noise limits and developed a protocol which used conditional version of importance sampling for the estimation of Markov chain averages; the scheme was later confirmed by a team of scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Vivek Borkar's researches have been documented in several peer-reviewed articles; and Google Scholar, an online article repository of scientific articles has listed 373 of them.

Vivek Borkar has contributed chapters to several books edited by others and has delivered a number of invited or keynote addresses including the address on Control and Optimization at the International Congress of Mathematicians held in Madrid in August 2006 and the Lecture on Probability and Stochastic Processes XI organized by Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi in November 2016.

Vivek Borkar has been associated with several science journals as an editor or a member of their editorial boards which included SIAM Journal of Control and Optimization, Systems and Control Letters, Journal of Indian Institute of Science, Sadhana; Proceedings of Indian Academy of Sciences, Applicationes Mathematicae of Polish Academy of Sciences and Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics.

Vivek Borkar received the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 2000 and the Prasant Chandra Mahalanobis Medal of the Indian National Science Academy in 2008.

Vivek Borkar was elected as a fellow by the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1993 and he received the Homi Bhabha Fellowship in 1995.

Vivek Borkar became an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy in 1996 and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers followed suit in 2002.