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D-Index
111
Citations
46399
World Ranking
95
National Ranking
48

Pravin Varaiya publication distribution in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Pravin Varaiya sits on this spectrum.

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34 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 602 publications — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,065 publications or more.

Pravin Varaiya D-index placement in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Pravin Varaiya sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 111 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 111 D-Index or more.

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

  • Smart cars on smart roads: problems of control

    P. Varaiya

  • Stochastic systems : estimation, identification, and adaptive control

    P. R. Kumar;Pravin Varaiya

  • Survey of decentralized control methods for large scale systems

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

  • Supervisory control of discrete-event processes with partial observations

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

  • High-Performance Communication Networks

    Jean Walrand;Pravin Varaiya

  • Max pressure control of a network of signalized intersections

    Pravin Varaiya

  • Smart Operation of Smart Grid: Risk-Limiting Dispatch

    P P Varaiya;F F Wu;J W Bialek

  • Control issues in automated highway systems

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

  • Performance Analysis of Slotted Carrier Sense IEEE 802.15.4 Medium Access Layer

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

  • Control design of an automated highway system

    R. Horowitz;P. Varaiya

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

    V. Anantharam;P. Varaiya;J. Walrand

  • TDMA scheduling algorithms for wireless sensor networks

    Sinem Coleri Ergen;Pravin Varaiya

  • Ellipsoidal Techniques for Reachability Analysis

    Alexander B. Kurzhanski;Pravin Varaiya

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

    S.C. Ergen;P. Varaiya

  • A BCU method for direct analysis of power system transient stability

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

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

    M. Ergen;S. Coleri;P. Varaiya

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

    A.J. Goldsmith;P.P. Varaiya

  • Platoons of connected vehicles can double throughput in urban roads

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

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

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

  • Hybrid dynamical systems

    A. Gollu;P. Varaiya

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean Walrand
Jean Walrand University of California, Berkeley
Ram Rajagopal
Ram Rajagopal Stanford University
Kameshwar Poolla
Kameshwar Poolla University of California, Berkeley
Alexander Skabardonis
Alexander Skabardonis University of California, Berkeley
Roberto Horowitz
Roberto Horowitz University of California, Berkeley
Felix F. Wu
Felix F. Wu University of Hong Kong
Xiao-Yun Lu
Xiao-Yun Lu University of California, Berkeley
Vivek S. Borkar
Vivek S. Borkar Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Shankar Sastry
Shankar Sastry University of California, Berkeley
Steven E Shladover
Steven E Shladover University of California, Berkeley

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