Earned Doctor of Science awarded to Madan Gupta

Posted October 27, 1998


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - October 23, 1998
98-10-11-OTHER

Earned Doctor of Science degree to go to
renowned U of S engineering professor

The University will award Dr. Madan Gupta, of the College of
Engineering, an Earned Doctor of Science degree, in recognition of
his cutting-edge research in the field of fuzzy logic, an area of
mathematics dealing with approximate (or ?fuzzy?), as distinct from
precise, reasoning.

Dr. Gupta was born in Lansdowne, India. He earned his first degree,
a BSc, from the University of Allahabad in 1957. Four years later he
received the BE (Hons.) degree in electronics and communication
engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, and
was the recipient of that Institute?s gold medal. In 1962, he
received the ME degree from this same Institute and went on to earn
a PhD from the University of Warwick (1967) for his research in the
field of adaptive control systems.

Dr. Gupta joined the U of S in 1967 as a lecturer. He was promoted to
assistant professor in 1968, associate professor in 1971, and full
professor in 1978.

In the early 1970s, he extended his research to fuzzy logic and fuzzy
control systems. His work in this area led to the co-authorship of
two textbooks on the topic. The significance of these textbooks can
be measured by the fact that both were quickly translated into
Japanese.

In the mid-?80s, Dr. Gupta turned some of his efforts to the area of
neural systems, particularly neuro-vision systems and neuro-control
systems. He has been not only a prolific researcher in these areas,
but in others as well. Two examples, both stemming from his early
work on dynamic sensitivity methods, are incipient failure detection
in cyclic machines and the early diagnosis of ischemic heart diseases.

During this illustrious career, he has supervised or co-supervised 36
PhD and MSc students; co-authored two textbooks; been editor or co-
editor of 17 books, a nine-volume Encyclopedia on Control Systems,
and the author or co-author of more than 600 research publications.

Dr. Gupta is a founding member of a number of national and
international associations, including the North American Fuzzy
Systems Association, the International Fuzzy Systems Association,
and the Canadian Society for Fuzzy Information and Neural Systems.
He has been a keynote speaker at many conferences around the
world, and is also an honorary member of the Japanese, Korean,
Chinese, and Indian Fuzzy Information Processing Societies.

For his contributions to the theory of fuzzy sets and adaptive control
systems, Dr. Gupta was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 1990, and Fellow of the
International Society for Optical Engineering in 1993, in recognition
of his contributions to neuro-vision, neuro-control, and fuzzy neural
systems.

In 1991 he was the co-recipient of the Institution of Electrical
Engineers Kelvin Premium. He has also served as a special advisor
to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization in the
area of industrial automation.

In 1998, he was awarded the highly prestigious Kaufmann Prize Gold
Medal for Research into Fuzzy Logic, which was presented to him in
Spain.

Through his research, education of postgraduate students and
postdoctoral fellows, and leadership in his chosen fields of research,
Dr. Gupta has contributed to society and brought honor to himself
and the University of Saskatchewan.

For more information, please contact:

Iain MacLean
University Secretary
(306) 966-4632