Thomas Kailath

Thomas Kailath
Thomas Kailath
	Kailath in 2007 at the IEEE Medal of Honor ceremony.
Born	June 7, 1935; Poona, Bombay Presidency, British India
Alma mater	Government College of Engineering at Pune (B.S.); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.S), (ScD);
Awards	IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal (1995); Claude E. Shannon Award (2000); IEEE Medal of Honor (2007); Padma Bhushan (2009); BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2009); National Medal of Science (2012); Marconi Society Lifetime Achievement Award (2017);
	Scientific career
Fields	Control theory; Information theory;
Institutions	Stanford University
Thesis	Communication via randomly varying channels (1961)
Doctoral advisor	John Wozencraft
Doctoral students	Babak Hassibi; Ali H. Sayed; John Cioffi;

Thomas Kailath (born June 7, 1935) is an Indian-American electrical engineer, information theorist, control engineer, entrepreneur and the Hitachi America Professor of Engineering emeritus at Stanford University. Professor Kailath has authored several books, including the well-known Linear Systems.

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. Kailath is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher and is generally recognized as one of the preeminent figures of twentieth-century electrical engineering.