Dimitri Bertsekas
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| Born | Athens, Greece |
| Residence | United States |
| Fields | Optimization, Mathematics, Control theory and Data Communication Network |
| Institutions | Stanford University University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | Control of Uncertain Systems with a Set-Membership Description of the Uncertainty (1971) |
| Doctoral advisor | Ian Burton Rhodes[1] |
| Doctoral students | Steven E. Shreve |
| Known for | Convex optimization Dynamic Programming Approximate Dynamic Programming Stochastic systems and Optimal Control |
| Notable awards | INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) Prize 1997 Greek National Award for Operations Research ACC John R. Ragazzini Education Award Member of the United States National Academy of Engineering 2009 INFORMS Expository Writing Award |
Dimitri Panteli Bertsekas is an applied mathematician and computer scientist, and a professor at the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Biography [edit]
Bertsekas was born in Greece and lived his childhood there. He studied for five years at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece (a time that, by his account, was spent mostly in playing poker and chess, and dating his future wife Ioanna), for about a year and a half at the George Washington University, Wash.DC (at night, while working as a research engineer), and for about two years at MIT, where he obtained his doctorate in system science. Prior to joining the MIT faculty in 1979, he taught for three years at the Engineering-Economic Systems Dept. of Stanford University, and for five years at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[2]
He is known for his research work, and for his fifteen textbooks and monographs in theoretical and algorithmic optimization and control, and in applied probability. His work ranges from theoretical/foundational work, to algorithmic analysis and design for optimization problems, and to applications such as data communication and transportation networks, and electric power generation. He is featured among the top 100 most cited computer science authors in the CiteSeer search engine academic database[3] and digital library. In 1995, he co-founded, a publishing company, Athena Scientific that among others, publishes most of his books.
In the late 90s Bertsekas developed a strong interest in digital photography. His photographs have been exhibited on several occasions at M.I.T.,[4] and can also be accessed from his www site http://web.mit.edu/dimitrib/www/home.html.
Awards and honors [edit]
Bertsekas was awarded the INFORMS 1997 Prize for Research Excellence in the Interface Between Operations Research and Computer Science[5] for his book "Neuro-Dynamic Programming" (co-authored with J. N. Tsitsiklis); the 2000 Greek National Award for Operations Research; and the 2001 ACC John R. Ragazzini Education Award for outstanding contributions to education.[6] In 2001, he was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering for "pioneering contributions to fundamental research, practice and education of optimization/control theory, and especially its application to data communication networks".[7] In 2009, he was awarded the 2009 INFORMS Expository Writing Award for his ability to "communicate difficult mathematical concepts with unusual clarity, thereby reaching a broad audience across many disciplines. "[8]
Textbooks and research monographs [edit]
Bertsekas' textbooks include
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all of which are used widely for classroom instruction in many universities including MIT,[9][10] have been published in multiple editions, and have been translated in foreign languages.
He has also written several widely referenced research monographs,[11] which collectively contain most of his research. These include:
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His latest research monograph is Abstract Dynamic Programming (2013), which aims at a unified development of the core theory and algorithms of total cost sequential decision problems, based on the strong connections of the subject with fixed point theory.
Free books to download [edit]
- Network Optimization
- Data Networks
- Approximate Dynamic Programming
- Constrained Optimization and Lagrange Multiplier Methods
- Parallel and Distributed Computation: Numerical Methods
- Stochastic Optimal Control: The Discrete-Time Case
External links [edit]
- Publications from Google Scholar.
- Publications from DBLP.
- Biography from National Academy of Engineering
- Bertsekas' home page at MIT
- Athena Scientific
- Laboratory for Information and Control Systems, MIT
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
Notes [edit]
- ^ Dimitri Bertsekas at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Biography from Bertsekas' Home Page
- ^ Citeseer Most cited authors in Computer Science - August 2006
- ^ Photo exhibition at MIT
- ^ Election citation of 1997 INFORMS ICS prize
- ^ 2001 ACC John R. Ragazzini Education Award
- ^ Election citation by National Academy of Engineering
- ^ 2009 INFORMS Expository Writing Award
- ^ MIT Open Course Ware
- ^ Course 6.253 Convex Analysis and Optimization from MIT OCW
- ^ Books by Dimitri Bertsekas
See also [edit]
- Greek mathematicians
- Computer pioneers
- Greek computer scientists
- Greek engineers
- Control theorists
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
- Systems scientists
- Researchers in stochastics
- Probability theorists
- 1942 births
- Living people
- Greek people
- Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
