# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-kailath
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:20:02.236Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-kailath"
name: "Thomas Kailath"
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description: "Thomas Kailath is an Indian-American electrical engineer, information theorist, control engineer, entrepreneur and the Hitachi America Professor of Engineering emeritus at Stanford University. Professor Kailath has authored several books, including the well-known Linear Systems."
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birthDate: "1935-06-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump