John N. Tsitsiklis (; 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

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. 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.

Education

Tsitsiklis received a B.S. degree in Mathematics (1980), and his B.S. (1980), M.S. (1981), and Ph.D. (1984) degrees in Electrical Engineering, all from the

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Awards and honors

Tsitsiklis was elected to the 2007 class of

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s of the

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. He won the "2016 ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award in recognition of his fundamental contributions to decentralized control and consensus, approximate dynamic programming and statistical learning." In 2018 he won the IEEE Control Systems Award "for contributions to the theory and application of

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in large dynamic and

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" as well as the John von Neumann Theory Prize, with Dimitri Bertsekas, "for contributions to Parallel and

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as well as Neurodynamic Programming."

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References

1958 births Living people Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni MIT School of Engineering alumni Greek electrical engineers Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences Engineers from Thessaloniki {{academic-stub