John N. Tsitsiklis | |
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| Born | 1958 Thessaloniki, Greece |
| 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 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Electrical engineering |
| Institutions | MIT |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael Athans |
| Doctoral students | George W. Hart C.-C. Jay Kuo Zhi-Quan Tom Luo[1] |
John N. Tsitsiklis (Greek: 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.[2] 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.[3]