Kishan Baheti

Kishan Baheti received a B.E. and a M.E. in Electrical Engineering in India from VRCE Nagpur, and from BITS Pilani, respectively. In 1970, he came to the US and received a M.S. in Information and Computer Science from University of Oklahoma and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Oregon State University. In 1976, Dr. Baheti joined the Control Engineering Laboratory of GE Corporate Research and Development Center in Schenectady, NY. His work focused on advanced multivariable control for jet engines, computer- aided control system design, vision based robots for precision welding, model-based fault identification and parallel implementation of Kalman filters. Dr. Baheti and his colleagues received the IR-100 award for robotic welding vision system. In 1989, Dr. Baheti joined NSF as a Program Director in the Division of Electrical and Communications Systems. He has been instrumental in the development of NSF initiatives on "Combined Research and Curriculum Development", "Semiconductor Manufacturing", and NSF/EPRI Initiative on "Intelligent Control". His contributions include the development of NSF Initiative on "Learning and Intelligent Systems" to help harness information technologies and enable active partnerships between several disciplines such as engineering, neuroscience, control theory, cognitive science, computer science and education. He has served as associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, member of the Control Systems Board of Governors, and chair for Public Information Committee. In 1994, he received the "Distinguished Member Award" from the IEEE Control Systems Society and in 1997, he was elected a Fellow of the IEEE.