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Sanjay Lall is a Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Information Systems Laboratory at Stanford University. He received a B.A. degree with first-class honors in Mathematics in 1990 and a Ph.D. degree in Engineering in 1995 from the University of Cambridge, England. His research focuses on algorithms for control, optimization, and machine learning. Lall served as the Director of the Autonomous Systems Group at Apple from 2018 to 2019 and has held various positions, including Research Fellow at the California Institute of Technology and Associate Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Laboratory for Information Decision Systems. Additionally, he has been a visiting scholar at the Lund Institute of Technology. With significant industrial experience, his work has applied advanced algorithms to numerous challenges in satellite systems, advanced audio systems, Formula 1 racing, and cloud services monitoring. He has authored over 130 peer-refereed publications and served as an Associate Editor for the journal 'Automatica'. His contributions have been recognized with awards including the IEEE Fellow in 2015 and the O. Hugo Schuck Paper Award from the American Control Conference in 2013.
Stanford University • Stanford, CA
Professor in Electrical Engineering, focusing on advanced algorithms and systems.
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