Ali Jadbabaie is an Iranian-American systems scientist and decision theorist and the JR East Professor of Engineering at

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ...

. Prior to joining

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, he was the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Network Science in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...

and a postdoc at the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at

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under A. Stephen Morse (2001–2002). Jadbabaie is an internationally renowned expert in the control and coordination of multi-robot formations, distributed optimization,

network economics Network, networking and networked may refer to: Science and technology * Network theory, the study of graphs as a representation of relations between discrete objects * Network science, an academic field that studies complex networks Mathematics ...

, and network science. He is currently the head of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at MIT. Previously he served as the Associate director of the Institute for Data, Systems and Society (IDSS) at MIT and was the program Head for the Social and Engineering Systems PhD program. He was a cofounder and director of the

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at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Education

* Ph.D. Control and Dynamical Systems, October 2000,

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, Pasadena, CA, USA * M.S. Electrical Engineering, December 1997,

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, Albuquerque, NM, USA * B.S. Electrical Engineering, February 1995,

Sharif University of Technology Sharif University of Technology (SUT); (, romanized : Dāneshgāh-e sana'ti-e sharif) is a public research university in Tehran, Iran. It is widely considered to be the nation's most prestigious and leading institution for science, technology ...

, Tehran, Iran

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