Asuman "Asu" Özdağlar (born December 16, 1974) is a Turkish academic.IDSS Webpage for Asu
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Early life

She was born to İsmail Özdağlar and Zahide Özdağlar on December 16, 1974. Her father İsmail Özdağlar was a former

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, between December 13, 1983 and January 15, 1985 in the 45th government of Turkey, who was convicted and jailed of misuse of ministerial powers.

Career

She studied in the Electrical Engineering department of the

Middle East Technical University Middle East Technical University (commonly referred to as METU; in Turkish, ''Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi'', ODTÜ) is a public technical university located in Ankara, Turkey. The university emphasizes research and education in engineering a ...

(METU) in

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and received a

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in 1996. She then continued her studies at the

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(MIT) in the United States and received her

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in 2003.MIT staff page
/ref> She served as an assistant professor (2003), associate professor (2008) and professor (2012) in the same university. Her research areas include

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and

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optimization, game theory,

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and economic networks, distributed-optimization methods, and network optimization and control. In 2017, she was named the new head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at MIT. Her predecessor Anantha Chandrakasan says: ''"Professor Ozdaglar is an inspiring researcher and has emerged as a true leader in the areas of optimization theory and algorithms, game theory, and networks."''MIT news
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Personal life

Asuman Ozdaglar is married to economist

Daron Acemoğlu Kamer Daron Acemoğlu (; born September 3, 1967) is a Turkish-born American economist who has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) since 1993. He is currently the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at MIT. H ...

References

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