John N. Tsitsiklis Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue, 32-D662 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 U.S.A. (617) 253-6175 [Voice] 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 an associate director of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) and is also affiliated with the Operations Research Center (ORC).

General Information

• Short Biography
• Honors and awards
• Books:
• Introduction to Probability, Athena Scientific, 2002; 2nd edition, 2008 (with Dimitri Bertsekas). Also translated into Chinese and Greek.
• Introduction 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

• 6.041/6.431, Probabilistic Systems Analysis (Fall 2011, Fall 2012)
• 6.436J/15.085J, Fundamentals of Probability (Fall 2011)
• 6.986, Network Science and Models (Spring 2011)
• 6.231, Dynamic Programming and Stochastic Control (Fall 2010)

Research areas (and publications by area)

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