John N. Tsitsiklis Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue, 32-D662 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 U.S.A. (617) 253-6175 [Voice] (617) 253-4308 [Fax] j n t  "at"  m i t "dot" e d u

John N. Tsitsiklis is a Clarence J Lebel Professor of Electrical Engineering, with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at MIT. He is affiliated with the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) and the Operations Research Center (ORC).

General Information

• Short Biography
• Honors and awards
• Books:
• Introduction to Probability, Athena Scientific, 2002 (with Dimitri Bertsekas).
• Intoduction to Linear Optimization, Athena Scientific, 1997 (with Dimitris Bertsimas).
• Neuro-dynamic Programming, Athena Scientific, 1996 (with Dimitri Bertsekas).
• Parallel and Distributed Computation: Numerical Methods, Prentice-Hall, 1989 (with Dimitri Bertsekas); republished in 1997 by Athena Scientific; available for download (730 scanned pages, about 55Mb)
• Full list of publications, including recent preprints

Teaching

• 6.262, Discrete Stochastic Processes (Spring 2008)
• 6.436J/15.085J, Fundamentals of Probability (Fall 2007)

Research areas (and publications by area)

• Communication networks (Resource Allocation, Games, Queueing)
• Neuro-Dynamic Programming
(Large scale dynamic programming and reinforcement learning)
• Analysis and control of stochastic systems
• Computational complexity in systems and control
• Dijkstra-like methods for the eikonal equation ("Fast marching")
• Flocking and consensus
• Parallel and distributed computation
• Data fusion (Communication complexity and decentralized detection)
• Optimization, control, and system identification
• Estimation and learning

Students

• Current students
• Doctoral theses supervised
• Masters theses supervised
• What do my students do after they graduate?