John N. Tsitsiklis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Professor
Cambridge, Massachusetts
jnt@mit.edu
Office:
(617) 253-6175
Bio/Research
Professor Tsitsiklis began his studies at MIT in 1976, and completed his PhD in Electrical Engineering in 1984. His thesis focused on the subject of decentralized decision-making and distributed computation, under the supervision of Michael Athans.
After serving as an acting assistant pr...
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Bio/Research
Professor Tsitsiklis began his studies at MIT in 1976, and completed his PhD in Electrical Engineering in 1984. His thesis focused on the subject of decentralized decision-making and distributed computation, under the supervision of Michael Athans.
After serving as an acting assistant professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University (1983-1984), he returned to MIT in 1984 and has since then been affiliated with LIDS. He has served as a director of the Operations Research Center, and is currently an associate director of LIDS.
Professor Tsitsiklis is the coauthor of over one hundred journal papers in the areas of systems, optimization, control, and operations research, and a number of books, including Introduction to Probability, with Dimitri Bertsekas. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and of INFORMS. In 2007, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, and in 2008, he was conferred the title of Doctor honoris causa, from the Universite Catholique de Louvain (Belgium).
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After serving as an acting assistant professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University (1983-1984), he returned to MIT in 1984 and has since then been affiliated with LIDS. He has served as a director of the Operations Research Center, and is currently an associate director of LIDS.
Professor Tsitsiklis is the coauthor of over one hundred journal papers in the areas of systems, optimization, control, and operations research, and a number of books, including Introduction to Probability, with Dimitri Bertsekas. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and of INFORMS. In 2007, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, and in 2008, he was conferred the title of Doctor honoris causa, from the Universite Catholique de Louvain (Belgium).
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