Vidyasagar is a leading control theorist and a Fellow of The Royal Society. He is currently a Distinguished Professor in Electrical Engineering at IIT Hyderabad.Sherlekar is the CEO of SankhyaSutra Labs, a company incubated by the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced ScientificResearch, Bangalore and a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited. Earlier, he was an Adjunct Professor at IIT Bombay.