John Tsitsiklis Explained

John N. Tsitsiklis
Birth Date:1958
Birth Place:Thessaloniki, Greece
Field:Electrical engineering
Work Institution:MIT
Doctoral Advisor:Michael Athans
Doctoral Students:George W. Hart
C.-C. Jay Kuo
Zhi-Quan Tom Luo
Known For:Dynamic programming
Stochastic systems
Operations Research
Numerical analysis
Statistical learning
Q-learning
Optimization
Statistics
Awards:2018 INFORMS John von Neumann Theory Prize
2018 IEEE Control Systems Award
2016 ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award
1997 ICS Prize

John N. Tsitsiklis (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Γιάννης Ν. Τσιτσικλής; born 1958) is a Greek-American probabilist. He is the Clarence J. Lebel Professor of Electrical Engineering with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1] He serves as the director of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems and is affiliated with the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), the Statistics and Data Science Center and the MIT Operations Research Center.[2]

Education

Tsitsiklis received a B.S. degree in Mathematics (1980), and his B.S. (1980), M.S. (1981), and Ph.D. (1984) degrees in Electrical Engineering, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[3]

Awards and honors

Tsitsiklis was elected to the 2007 class of Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.

He won the "2016 ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award in recognition of his fundamental contributions to decentralized control and consensus, approximate dynamic programming and statistical learning."[4]

In 2018 he won the IEEE Control Systems Award "for contributions to the theory and application of optimization in large dynamic and distributed systems"[5] [6] [7] as well as the John von Neumann Theory Prize, with Dimitri Bertsekas, "for contributions to Parallel and Distributed Computation as well as Neurodynamic Programming."[8]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: John N. Tsitsiklis . 12 Dec 2018.
  2. Web site: John N. Tsitsiklis . 12 Dec 2018.
  3. https://www.mit.edu/~jnt/bio.html MIT bio
  4. https://www.sigmetrics.org/achievementaward-2016.shtml Dr. John Tsitsiklis Wins 2016 ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award
  5. News: LIDS director receives IEEE Control Systems Award for 2018. 2018-12-12. en-GB. 2018-09-10. https://web.archive.org/web/20180910115526/http://www.eecs.mit.edu/news-events/announcements/lids-director-receives-ieee-control-systems-award-2018. dead.
  6. News: 2018 IEEE Technical Field Award Recipients and Citations. https://web.archive.org/web/20181216031200/https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/2018_tfa_recipients_and_citations.pdf. dead. December 16, 2018. 2018-12-12. en-GB.
  7. News: IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS AWARD RECIPIENTS. 2018-12-12. en-GB.
  8. News: John von Neumann Theory Prize. 2018-12-13. en-GB.