About Anu

ANURADHA ANNASWAMY is the Founder and Director of the Active-Adaptive Control Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. She previously held faculty positions at Yale and Boston University, and is currently a Senior Research Scientist at MIT. Her research interests span adaptive control theory and its applications to aerospace, automotive, propulsion, and energy systems as well as cyber-physical systems such as Smart Grids, Smart Cities, and Smart Infrastructures. She has received best paper awards (Axelby, 1986; CSM, 2010; IFAC Annual Reviews in Control, 2021-23), Distinguished Member and Distinguished Lecturer awards from the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS), and a Presidential Young Investigator award from NSF, 1991-97. She is a Fellow of IEEE and the International Federation of Automatic Control and recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award from Indian Institute of Science for 2021. She received the IEEE Control Systems Technology Award from CSS in 2024.

Anu Annaswamy is the author of a graduate textbook on adaptive control, co-editor of two vision documents on smart grids and two editions of the Impact of Control Technology report, and on the editorial board of IEEE Open Journal of Control Systems, the IFAC Annual Reviews in Control, and Asian Journal of Control. She has co-authored two National Academies consensus reports: The Future of Electric Power in the United States (2021) and The Role of Net Metering in the Evolving Electricity System (2023). She served as the President of CSS in 2020. Currently, Dr. Annaswamy serves as the President of the American Automatic Control Council and as Editor in Chief of the IEEE Control Systems magazine. Dr. Annaswamy received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Yale University in 1985.