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|name = A. V. Balakrishnan
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|birth_date = December 4, 1922<ref>{{cite web|title=In Memory of Alampallam V. Balakrishnan|url=http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.aspx?n=Alampallam-Balakrishnan&lc=4798&pid=174459151&uuid=c93ea570-e8f0-4ef6-9b41-14876a4f9d30}}</ref>
|birth_place = India
|death_date = {{death date and age|2015|3|17|1922|12|4}}<ref>{{cite web|title=In Memoriam: A.V. Balakrishnan|date=24 March 2015|url=https://www.math.ucla.edu/news/memoriam-av-balakrishnan|publisher=UCLA}}</ref>
|death_place = Los Angeles
|residence = [[United States]]
|citizenship = [[United States|American]]
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|fields = [[Control theory]]
|workplaces = The Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles
|alma_mater = [[University of Madras]]<br />[[University of Southern California]]
|doctoral_advisor = [[Ralph S. Phillips]]
|doctoral_students =
|students = Phani Madhav Yannam
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|awards = [[Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award]] <small>(2001)</small>
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'''Alampallam Venkatachalaiyer Balakrishnan''' was an [[United States|American]] [[applied mathematician]] and professor at the [[University of California, Los Angeles]].

==Education and career==
Balakrishnan grew up in [[Chennai]], [[India]], and entered the [[University of Madras]] in the early 1940s. While there he earned a scholarship from the Indian government to study in the [[United States]] and learn to produce [[Documentary film|documentaries]]. Upon arriving at the [[University of Southern California]], known for its [[USC School of Cinematic Arts|film school]], he initially wanted to become a [[Audio engineering|sound engineer]] on [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood films]]. At the time, he was unable to get a position because he was not a member of any of the [[Guild#Modern|guilds]], which controlled who was able to get a jobs. Therefore, after earning his first master's degree in cinema in 1949, he switched to [[electrical engineering]]. Balakrishnan received his [[Master of Science|M.S.]] in [[Electrical Engineering]] and his [[Ph.D.]] in [[Mathematics]] from the [[University of Southern California]] in 1950 and 1954, respectively.

He has been Professor of Engineering and Professor of Mathematics since 1965 at The University of California, Los Angeles. He was Chair of the Department of Systems Science in the (then) School of Engineering from 1969 to 1975, and Director of the NASA-UCLA Flight Systems Research Center since 1985.

==Recognition==
He was a recipient of the [[Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award]] which is the highest recognition of professional achievement for US control systems engineers and scientists in 2001 for "pioneering contributions to stochastic and distributed systems theory, optimization, control, and aerospace flight systems research".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://a2c2.org/awards/richard-e-bellman-control-heritage-award |title=Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award |publisher=[[American Automatic Control Council]] |accessdate={{Format date|2013|2|10}}}}</ref>

He has received honors and awards from the International Federation of Information Processing Society (1977), NASA (1978, 1992,1995, and 1996), and, in 1980, the Guillemin Prize in recognition of the major impact that his original contributions have had in setting the research direction of communications and control.

In 2016, USC Viterbi Professor [[Petros A. Ioannou | Petros Ioannou]] became the inaugural A.V. “Bal” Balakrishnan Chair of the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering.

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090523004300/http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-bal.htm UCLA faculty page]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080524003352/http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/profiles/2004_11_12_balakrishnan.htm USC Viterbi School of Engineering biography]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080415114715/http://www.a2c2.org/awards/bellman/index1999_2003.php#2001 AACC profile]
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* [https://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2016/av-bal-balakrishnan-petros-ioannou.htm USC A.V.(Bal) Balakrishnan Chair of the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering]

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