Venkataramanan "Ragu" Balakrishnan, PhD

Dean
Case School of Engineering
Professor
Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Case School of Engineering

Investigates numerical methods and optimization for systems and control, control theory, application of systems theory in communication, signal processing, robotics and VLSI.

Awards and Honors

IEEE Fellow
2012

External Appointments

  • Jan. 1, 2001 - Jan. 1, 2003, Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  • Jan. 1, 1999 - Jan. 1, 2001, Chairman IEEE Control Systems Society Technical Committee on Robust Control
  • Jan. 1, 1995 - Jan. 1, 1999, Chairman IEEE Control Systems Society Working Group on Robust Control
  • Jan. 1, 1997 - Jan. 1, 1999, Member Conference Editorial Board for the American Control Conference and the Conference on Decision and Control
  • Jan. 1, 1999 - PRESENT, Member, Technical Program Committee IEEE American Control Conference
  • Jan. 1, 1994 - PRESENT, Conference session co-organizer and co-chair, Session WA鈥02 鈥淟inear Matrix Inequalities in Control Theory鈥揑,鈥 American Control Conference
  • Jan. 1, 2015 - PRESENT, Deputy Director of Operations IEEE Control Systems Society Executive Committee
  • Jan. 1, 1998 - PRESENT, Conference session co-chair, Session TA鈥05 鈥淟inear Matrix Inequalities II,鈥 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
  • Jan. 1, 1993 - PRESENT, Workshops co-organizer and presenter 鈥淐onvex Optimization Techniques in Robust Control,鈥 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
  • Jan. 1, 2005 - PRESENT, Senior Member Control Systems Society
  • Jan. 1, 1995 - PRESENT, Member Control Systems Society
  • Jan. 1, 1999 - PRESENT, Co-Registration Chair IEEE Conference on Control Applications
  • Jan. 1, 1994 - PRESENT, Conference session co-organizer and co-chair, Session WM鈥02 鈥淟inear Matrix Inequalities in Control Theory鈥揑I,鈥 American Control Conference
  • Jan. 1, 2014 - PRESENT, Appointed to the Board of Governors IEEE Control Systems Society
  • Jan. 1, 1996 - PRESENT, Conference session co-organizer, Session MA鈥01 鈥淎lgorithms and Software Tools for LMI Problems in Control,鈥 IEEE International Symposium on CACSD
  • Jan. 1, 1992 - PRESENT, Conference sessions co-chair, Session TM鈥9 鈥淩obust stability and performance,鈥 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
  • Jan. 1, 2002 - PRESENT, Registration Chair American Control Conference
  • Jan. 1, 1994 - PRESENT, Workshop co-organizer and presenter 鈥淐omputer-aided Control System Design Using Linear Matrix Inequalities,鈥 American Control Conference
  • Jan. 1, 2016 - PRESENT, Director of Operations IEEE Control Systems Society Executive Committee
  • Jan. 1, 1999 - PRESENT, Conference session co-organizer and co-chair 鈥淥ptimization-based CACSD,鈥 1999 IEEE International Conference on Control Applications and IEEE International Symposium on CACSD
  • Jan. 1, 1994 - PRESENT, Conference session co-chair, Session WP鈥15 鈥淥ptimal Control: Numerical Methods,鈥 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
  • Jan. 1, 2011 - PRESENT, Program Vice Chair Joint IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference
  • Jan. 1, 1996 - PRESENT, Conference session co-chair, Session WP鈥13 鈥淩obust Control of Time-Delay Systems,鈥 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Education

MS
Statistics
Stanford University
1992
PhD
Electrical Engineering
Stanford University
1992
MS
Electrical Engineering
Stanford University
1988
Bachelor of Technology
Electrical Engineering
Indiana Institute of Technology
1985