Venkataramanan Balakrishnan

Venkataramanan Balakrishnan
Born
India
Academic background
EducationB. Tech, IIT Madras
MS, electrical engineering, 1989, MS, statistics, 1992, PhD, electrical engineering, 1992, Stanford University
ThesisGlobal optimization in control system analysis and design (1992)
Academic work
InstitutionsCase Western Reserve University
Purdue University School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Venkataramanan "Ragu" Balakrishnan is an Indian–American engineer. He is the Charles H. Phipps Dean at the Case School of Engineering, having previously served as the Michael and Katherine Birck Head Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. In 2012, Balakrishnan was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for his contributions to convex optimization in control systems.