Recollections of My Life as a Student with Prof. Kalman [Historical Perspectives]

I first met Prof. Rudolf E. Kalman in Barcelona during the 1977-1978 academic year. He was visiting one of his former students from Stanford, who happened to be my advisor, and Prof. Kalman interviewed me as a prospective candidate to work on my Ph.D. under his supervision at the University of Florida. In the summer of 1978, my family and I traveled to Gainesville, where I started the Ph.D. program with a Fulbright fellowship in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department (ISE).