Desineni S. Naidu was born and educated in India. He received his B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, in 1964 and M. Tech. and Ph.D. degrees in Control Systems Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Until 1984, he was with the Department of Electrical Engineering, LIT., Kharagpur. During 1985 and 1986, he held a National Research Council Senior Resident Research Associateship at the Guidance and Control Division, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, USA. At present, he is with Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk, USA. His primary areas of teaching and research include control systems, microprocessors, singular perturbations, and digital flight control systems. He has about 50 published works including a recent research monograph, 'Singular Perturbation Analysis of Discrete Control Systems', published as Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1985. He is a Member of AIAA and a Senior Member of the IEEE.
