DDLC Seminar: Ali Jadbabaie (MIT)

Description

Data Driven Learning and Control seminar series is organized by the Information and Decision Science Lab at Cornell University and aims to explore the latest advancements and interdisciplinary approaches to data-driven learning and control systems.

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Bio:
Ali Jadbabaie is the JR East Professor of Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Department Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the former Associate Director of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), and the former Director of the Sociotechnical Systems Research Center (SSRC) at MIT. He is a recognized expert in the fields of network science, decision and control theory, and multi-agent coordination. Prof. Jadbabaie joined MIT from Penn, where he was the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Network Science in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering.

Through his highly-cited and influential research, Prof. Jadbabaie has made fundamental contributions in optimization-based control, multi-agent coordination and consensus, network science, and network economics. He has won several prestigious awards, and his students and postdoctoral scholars have become professors within electrical, computer, and mechanical engineering departments in top universities and in eminent business schools.

Prof. Jadbabaie received his B.S. from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, his M.S. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of New Mexico, and his Ph.D. in control and dynamical systems from the California Institute of Technology. He was a postdoctoral scholar at Yale University before joining the faculty at Penn in July 2002. He held secondary appointments in computer and information science and operations and information management in the Wharton School.