2026 Pravin Varaiya: Electronics and Electrical Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Electronics and Electrical Engineering	111	95	48	602	46399

Research.com Recognitions

2014 - Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)
2009 - IEEE ITS Outstanding Research Award
2008 - Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award
2006 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2002 - IEEE Control Systems Award "For outstanding contributions to stochastic and adaptive control and the unification of concepts from control and computerscience.”
1999 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to the theory of systems and control.
1980 - IEEE Fellow For fundamental contributions to the theory and control of large-scale stochastic systems.
1971 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Pravin Varaiya was a researcher affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their work primarily focused on the field of Engineering, with a significant emphasis on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering, Transportation, and Computer Networks and Communications.

Their research covered multiple topics, including:

Transportation and Mobility Innovations
Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure
Smart Grid Energy Management
Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety
Traffic control and management
Transportation Planning and Optimization
Optimization and Search Problems

Some of the recent papers authored by collaborators under Varaiya's guidance include:

"Mobile Storage for Demand Charge Reduction," 2021, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
"Pavement performance assessment using a cost-effective wireless accelerometer system," 2020, Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering
"Safety challenges for autonomous vehicles in the absence of connectivity," 2021, Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies
"An analysis of labor regulations for transportation network companies," 2022, Economics of Transportation
"Market implementation of multiple-arrival multiple-deadline differentiated energy services," 2020, Automatica

Frequent co-authors working with Varaiya included:

Kameshwar Poolla
Junjie Qin
Akhil Shetty
Utkarsha Agwan
Alex A. Kurzhanskiy

Their work was published in venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
2022 IEEE 61st Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering
Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies

Pravin Varaiya received several awards throughout the career, including:

Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), 2014
IEEE ITS Outstanding Research Award, 2009
Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award, 2008
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2006
IEEE Control Systems Award, 2002, for outstanding contributions to stochastic and adaptive control and the unification of concepts from control and computer science
Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 1999, for contributions to the theory of systems and control
IEEE Fellow, 1980, for fundamental contributions to the theory and control of large-scale stochastic systems
Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1971

Best Publications

Capacity of fading channels with channel side information

A.J. Goldsmith;P.P. Varaiya

2582
Citations
Smart cars on smart roads: problems of control

P. Varaiya

1900
Citations
Stochastic systems : estimation, identification, and adaptive control

P. R. Kumar;Pravin Varaiya

1833
Citations
Survey of decentralized control methods for large scale systems

N. Sandell;P. Varaiya;M. Athans;M. Safonov

1398
Citations
Supervisory control of discrete-event processes with partial observations

R. Cieslak;C. Desclaux;A.S. Fawaz;P. Varaiya

753
Citations
High-Performance Communication Networks

Jean Walrand;Pravin Varaiya

678
Citations
Max pressure control of a network of signalized intersections

Pravin Varaiya

628
Citations
Smart Operation of Smart Grid: Risk-Limiting Dispatch

P P Varaiya;F F Wu;J W Bialek

626
Citations
Control issues in automated highway systems

J.K. Hedrick;M. Tomizuka;P. Varaiya

590
Citations
Performance Analysis of Slotted Carrier Sense IEEE 802.15.4 Medium Access Layer

S. Pollin;M. Ergen;S. Ergen;B. Bougard

585
Citations
Control design of an automated highway system

R. Horowitz;P. Varaiya

564
Citations
Asymptotically efficient allocation rules for the multiarmed bandit problem with multiple plays-Part II: Markovian rewards

V. Anantharam;P. Varaiya;J. Walrand

511
Citations
TDMA scheduling algorithms for wireless sensor networks

Sinem Coleri Ergen;Pravin Varaiya

505
Citations
Ellipsoidal Techniques for Reachability Analysis

Alexander B. Kurzhanski;Pravin Varaiya

496
Citations
PEDAMACS: power efficient and delay aware medium access protocol for sensor networks

S.C. Ergen;P. Varaiya

475
Citations
A BCU method for direct analysis of power system transient stability

Hsiao-Dong Chiang;F.F. Wu;P.P. Varaiya

469
Citations
QoS aware adaptive resource allocation techniques for fair scheduling in OFDMA based broadband wireless access systems

M. Ergen;S. Coleri;P. Varaiya

452
Citations
Capacity, mutual information, and coding for finite-state Markov channels

A.J. Goldsmith;P.P. Varaiya

439
Citations
Platoons of connected vehicles can double throughput in urban roads

Jennie Lioris;Ramtin Pedarsani;Fatma Yildiz Tascikaraoglu;Pravin Varaiya

421
Citations
Direct methods for transient stability analysis of power systems: Recent results

P. Varaiya;F.F. Wu;Rong-Liang Chen

407
Citations
Hybrid dynamical systems

A. Gollu;P. Varaiya

295
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Kameshwar Poolla University of California, Berkeley

Roberto Horowitz University of California, Berkeley

Felix F. Wu University of Hong Kong

Vivek S. Borkar Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Shankar Sastry University of California, Berkeley

Pramod P. Khargonekar University of California, Irvine

Raja Sengupta University of California, Berkeley

Steven H. Low California Institute of Technology

Hsiao-Dong Chiang Cornell University

Eyad H. Abed University of Maryland, College Park

External Links

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