Mangalore Anantha Pai, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Indian electrical engineer
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Place of Birth: Karnataka, India
About Mangalore Anantha Pai
- Mangalore Anantha Pai (born 1931) is an Indian electrical engineer, academic and a Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
- A former professor of electrical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, he is known for his contributions in the fields of power stability, power grids, large scale power system analysis, system security and optimal control of nuclear reactors and he has published 8 books and several articles.
- Pai is the first India born scientist to be awarded a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.Pai is an IEEE Life Fellow and is an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences, and Indian National Academy of Engineers and an elected and life fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Engineering Sciences in 1974.
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