Vvs Sarma

Biography

Vallury Visweswara Subrahmanya Sarma received BSc (1961) from Andhra University, after which he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore from where he obtained BE (1964) and ME (1966) and PhD (1971) in optimal control theory working under the guidance of BL Deekshatulu. He also worked associated with Thomas Kailath at Stanford University on stochastic differential games. In 1967 he joined the Electrical Engineering and in 1973 he moved to the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering as Assistant Professor and was also associated with the Department of Computer Science and Automation (CSA) since its inception (1969), all at IISc, Bangalore where he became Associate Professor (1980) and Professor (1983). He was Visiting Professor (1984-86), University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette and Visiting Scientist, Tata Research Development and Design Centre, Pune (1995-97). After retiring in 2006, he was Honorary Professor (2007- ) and also INAE Distinguished Professor of Engineering at CSA, IISc.

Research Interest

Computer Science, Intelligent Systems and Indian Logic