Dimitri P. Bertsekas received a combined B.S.E.E. and B.S.M.E. from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 1965, the M.S.E.E. degree from George Washington University in 1969 and the Ph.D. degree in system science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971.
Dr. Bertsekas has held faculty positions with the Engineering-Economic Systems Dept., Stanford University (1971-1974) and the Electrical Engineering Dept. of the University of Illinois, Urbana (1974-1979). He is currently Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He consults regularly with private industry and has held editorial positions in several journals. He was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 1983.
Professor Bertsekas has done research in the areas of estimation and control of stochastic systems, linear, nonlinear and dynamic programming, data communication networks, parallel and distributed computation, and neural networks, and has written numerous papers in each of these areas.
He is the author of Dynamic Programming and Stochastic Control, Academic Press, 1976, Constrained Optimization and Lagrange Multiplier Methods, Academic Press, 1982, Dynamic Programming: Deterministic and Stochastic Models, Prentice- Hall, 1987, Linear Network Optimization: Algorithms and Codes, MIT Press, 1991, Dynamic Programming and Optimal Control, Vols. I and II, Athena Scientific, 1995; and co-author of Stochastic Optimal Control: The Discrete-Time Case, Academic Press, 1978, Data Networks, 1987 (2nd Ed. 1991), and Parallel and Distributed Computation: Numerical Methods, Prentice-Hall, 1989.