Desineni “Subbaram” Naidu received M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering (with specialization in Control Systems Engineering), from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, INDIA. Dr. Naidu taught, visited and/or conducted research at: IIT; National Research Council (NRC) Senior Research Associate at Guidance and Control Division, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA (1985-90); Old Domain University, Norfolk, VA, USA (1987-90); Professor, Associate Dean and Director, School of Engineering at Idaho State University and Measurement and Control Engineering Research Center, Pocatello, Idaho, USA (1990-2014); National Research Council (NRC) Senior Research Associate at Center of Excellence in Advanced Flight Research at United States (US) Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB), Ohio, USA(1998-99); Visiting Research Fellow at Center of Excellence for Ships and Ocean Structures at Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, NORWAY (2014); Academic Guest at Measurement and Control Laboratory at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, SWITZERLAND (2015); Visiting Professor at Nantong University, Nantong; Jiangsu College of Information Technology, Jiangsu,East China Normal University, Shanghai,Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing CHINA(2007,2-09,2011); Visiting Research Professor at the University of Western Australia in Perth, and the Center for Industrial and Applied Mathematics at the University of South Australia, Adelaide, AUSTRALIA (2008);Satish Dhawan Endowed Visiting Professor, Indian Inst. of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, INDIA (2017), Nizhny Novgorod and Moscow State University, Moscow; Novosibirsk State Technical University, Novosibirsk (New Siberia); Institute of Control Sciences (ICS), Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow,RUSSIA (2012,2018) and Minnesota Power Jack Rowe Endowed Chair, University of Minnesota, Duluth, USA (2014-2023). Professor Naidu received twice the Senior National Research Council (NRC) Associateship award from the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and is an elected (1995) (now Life) Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and an elected (2003) Fellow of the World Innovation Foundation, UK. Professor Naidu’s teaching and research interests are Electrical Engineering (Power and Energy), Control Systems,Optimal Control: Theory and Applications,Biomedical Sciences and Engineering (Prosthetics and Infectious Diseases),and Singular Perturbations and Time Scales (SPaTS): Control Theory and Applications,Guidance and Control of Aerospace Systems: Aeroassisted Orbital Transfer for Mars mission and Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles (UAVs),Advanced Control Strategies for Heating, Ventilation, & Air-Conditioning (HVAC),Modeling, Sensing and Control of Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW) and has over 200 journal and conference publications including 9 books. He has been on several journal editorial boards, including the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Mechatronics: The Science of Intelligent Machines, An International Journal, ELSEVIER, and Optimal Control: Applications and Methods (Wiley).

Title of Talk : Fusion of Hard and Soft (AI) Control Strategies For aSmart Prosthetic/Robotic Hand