George Verghese

Biography

George Verghese received his B. Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, in 1974, his M.S. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1975, and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1979, all in electrical engineering. Since 1979 he has been at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and a member of the Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems. His research interests are in modeling, estimation and control, particularly for switched or networked systems, and primarily in applications related to power systems and to biology/biomedicine. He is co-author (with J.G. Kassakian and M.F. Schlecht) of "Principles of Power Electronics" (Addison-Wesley, 1991), and co-editor (with S. Banerjee) of "Nonlinear Phenomena in Power Electronics" (IEEE Press, 2001). Dr. Verghese is a Fellow of the IEEE.