Asu Özdağlar (born December 16, 1974) is a Turkish American computer scientist and a professor at the

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 ...

.MIT staff page
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- website of the CEPR

Early life

She was born to

İsmail Özdağlar İsmail Özdağlar (born September 17, 1950) is a Turkish politician and former government minister. He was convicted of misuse of ministerial powers. Early life İsmail Özdağlar was born to Ali Özdağlar and his wife Akile in Demirci town of ...

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

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. He was convicted by the Turkiye Cumhuriyeti Anayasa Mahkemesi (the Constitutional Court of Turkey) on Feb. 14, 1986 for bribery and misuse of his authority.

Career

Özdağlar attended the

Middle East Technical University Middle East Technical University (commonly referred to as METU; in Turkish language, Turkish, ''Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi'', ODTÜ) is a prestigious public university, public Institute of technology, technical university located in Ankara, ...

(METU) in

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, earning a BS degree in Electrical Engineering in 1996. She then pursued further studies at the

(MIT), where she obtained an SM degree in 1998 and a

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in 2003, both in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. She has served as an assistant professor (2003), associate professor (2008), and professor (2012) in the same university. Her research expertise includes

optimization Mathematical optimization (alternatively spelled ''optimisation'') or mathematical programming is the selection of a best element, with regard to some criteria, from some set of available alternatives. It is generally divided into two subfiel ...

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of Computational statistics, statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalise to unseen data, and thus perform Task ( ...

, economics, and

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. Her recent research focuses on designing incentives and algorithms for data-driven online systems with many diverse human-machine participants. She has investigated issues of data ownership and markets, spread of

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, economic and financial contagion, and social learning. In 2017, she was named the new head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at MIT. Her predecessor Anantha Chandrakasan said: "Professor Ozdaglar is an inspiring researcher and has emerged as a true leader in the areas of optimization theory and

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game theory Game theory is the study of mathematical models of strategic interactions. It has applications in many fields of social science, and is used extensively in economics, logic, systems science and computer science. Initially, game theory addressed ...

, and networks."MIT news
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ozdaglar, Asu Living people 1974 births Middle East Technical University alumni Turkish electronics engineers MIT School of Engineering alumni MIT School of Engineering faculty Turkish engineering academics Turkish women academics Turkish expatriate academics in the United States