Shankar P. Bhattacharyya is a professor of Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and IFAC, and a Foreign Member of The Brazilian Academy of Sciences and The Brazilian National Academy of Engineering. His contributions to control theory include the first solution of the multivariable servomechanism problem, an algorithm for eigenvalue assignment, robustness and fragility, and a modern analytical approach to the design of PID controllers.
