Vivek BORKAR, faculty at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and a member of Management Board of International Centre for Theoretical Sciences - TIFR, has been awarded the 2010 prize in Engineering Sciences by TWAS, the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World.
BORKAR shares this prize with Edgar ZANOTTO, Vitreous Materials Laboratory, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil.
BORKAR is honoured for his seminal contributions to the theory and the algorithms for time-averaged ('ergodic') control, inclusive of situations involving additional constraints, noisy observations or model uncertainty. Zanotto is recognized for his fundamental contributions to the understanding of glass crystallization and the development of novel glass-ceramics.