Mangalore Anantha Pai
Electrical Engineering
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Anantha Mangalore Pai earned BE (1953) from Madras University. He worked in Bombay Electric and Transport System (BEST) in Mumbai (1953-57) in the Electric Supply Department. Thereafter, he received MS (Electrical Engineering) (1958) and PhD (Electrical Engineering) (1961) from the University of California, taught for a year as Assistant Professor at UCLA till 1963, and worked with EI Jury in the area of discrete time systems. After returning to India in 1963, he joined Faculty, Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, also worked there as Dean, R&D (1976-78), joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1981) and continued to work there up to his retirement (2004). He also worked at the Central Power Research Institute under the CSIR-UNDP program.
Research Interest
Power System Dynamics, Power System Control & Power System Computation
