Thomas Kailath

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electrical engineer person university professor

Thomas Kailath is an Indian-American electrical engineer and Stanford professor renowned for his influential contributions to information theory, control, and signal processing.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	electrical engineer → person → university professor →
academicDegree	Bachelor of Engineering → PhD in electrical engineering →
awardReceived	Guggenheim Fellowship → IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal → IEEE Education Medal → IEEE Medal of Honor → Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology → Padma Bhushan →
birthCountry	India →
birthDate	1935-06-07 →
birthPlace	Pune →
citizenship	India → United States of America →
countryOfResidence	United States of America →
doctoralAdvisor	John Wozencraft →
doctoralStudent	Alan S. Willsky → Babak Hassibi →
educatedAt	College of Engineering Pune → Massachusetts Institute of Technology →
employer	Stanford University →
ethnicOrigin	Indian →
familyName	Kailath →
fieldOfWork	communications → control theory → electrical engineering → estimation theory → information theory → linear systems → signal processing →
givenName	Thomas →
honorificTitle	Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, Emeritus →
knownFor	Kailath factorization in linear systems → contributions to control theory → contributions to information theory → contributions to signal processing → work on singular value decomposition methods →
memberOf	American Academy of Arts and Sciences → National Academy of Engineering → National Academy of Sciences →
name	Thomas Kailath →
notableWork	Innovations approach to detection and estimation → Linear Estimation → Linear Least-Squares Estimation → Linear Systems →
occupation	professor → researcher →
workplace	Stanford University →

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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Martin Hellman →	doctoralAdvisor
Thomas Kailath ("Kailath") →	familyName
IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal →	hasRecipient
Thomas Kailath →	name