- Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
- J.W. Runyon, Jr. '35 Professor II
- Co-Director of Graduate Programs
- Phone: 979-845-5917
- FAX: 979-845-6259
- Email: a-datta@tamu.edu
- Office: WEB 212F
- Website: Research Website

Educational Background
- Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California – 1991
- M.S., Applied Mathematics, University of Southern California – 1991
- M.S.E.E., Southern Illinois University at Carbondale – 1987
- B.Tech (Hons.), Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology – 1985
Research Interests
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- Adaptive Control.
- Parametric Robust Control.
- Genomic Signal Processing and Control.
Awards & Honors
- Fellow IEEE, 2009, For contributions to control techniques in Cancer Genomics.
- J. W. Runyon, Jr. '35 Endowed Professor II, January 2008-present.
- NSF Panelist for Science and Technology Centers Preproposal Panel, January 2009.
- General Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS), 2008.
- NSF Panelist for Power, Control and Adaptive Networks Panel, February 2008
- Associate Editor, EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, 2007-present
- Member, International Program Committee, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2008.
- Member, Technical Committee on Biosystems and Control, IEEE Control Systems Society, 2007-present.
- Technical Program Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS), 2007.
- NSF Panelist for Power, Control and Adaptive Networks Panel, June 2006.
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics, 2005-2006.
- Finance Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS), 2006.
- Eugene E. Webb Faculty Fellow, 2006.
- Publicity Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS), 2005.
- Member, Editorial Board, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, 2005.
- Member, International Program Committee, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2004.
- Outstanding Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, 2004.
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2001-2003.
- Member, Local Arrangements Committee, Workshop on Discrete Models for Genetic Regulatory Networks, November 2003.
- TEES Special Research Fellow, 2001.
- NSF Panelist for Control, Networks and Computational Intelligence Panel, June 2001.
- Member, International Program Committee, 2000 American Control Conference.
- Member, International Program Committee, 1998 American Control Conference.
- Member, International Program Committee, 3rd IEEE Mediterranean Symposium on New Directions in Control and Automation, 1995.
- Best Presentation Award, Session WA03 on Robust Adaptive Control, American Control Conference, 1994.
- Organizer, Texas Systems Day, 1994.
- NSF Panelist for Research Initiation Awards, 1993.
- Presidential Silver Medal, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, May 1986.
Selected Publications
- A. Datta, Adaptive Internal Model Control, Springer-Verlag, 1998
- A. Datta, M. T. Ho and S. P. Bhattacharyya, Structure and Synthesis of PID Controllers, Springer-Verlag, 2000.
- G. J. Silva, A. Datta and S. P. Bhattacharyya, PID Controllers for Time Delay Systems, Birkhauser, 2005
- A. Datta and E. R. Dougherty, Introduction to Genomic Signal Processing with Control, CRC Press, 2007
- S. P. Bhattacharyya, A. Datta and L. H. Keel, Linear Control Theory: Structure, Robustness and Optimization, CRC Press, 2009
- A. Datta and P. Ioannou, "Decentralized Indirect Adaptive Control of Interconnected Systems," International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, Vol. 5, No. 4, 259-281,July-August 1991.
- P. A. Ioannou and A. Datta, "Robust Adaptive Control: A Unified Approach," Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 79, No. 12, 1736-1768, December 1991.
- A. Datta, "Performance Improvement in Decentralized Adaptive Control: A Modified Model Reference Scheme," IEEE Trans. on Automat. Contr., Vol. AC- 38, No. 11, 1717-1722, Nov. 1993.
- A. Datta, "Robustness of Discrete-time Adaptive Controllers: An Input-Output Approach," IEEE Trans. on Automat. Contr., Vol. AC-38, No.12, 1852-1857, Dec. 1993.
- A. Datta, "On the Transient Behaviour in Discrete-time Model Reference Adaptive Control: Analysis and Possible Improvement," Automatica, Vol. 30, No.3, 527-531, March 1994.