OPTIMIZATION AND NETWORK GAME THEORY GROUP

(Left to Right: Noah Stein, Ishai Menache, Ilan Lobel, Prof. Ozdaglar, Kostas Bimpikis, Ozan Candogan, Ali ParandehGheibi)

The research in our group spans the areas of optimization theory, with emphasis on nonlinear optimization and distributed optimization methods, game theory, network economics, and network optimization and control. The group focuses on problems that arise in the analysis and optimization of large scale dynamic multi-agent networked systems, including communication networks, transportation networks, and social and economic networks.

RESEARCH GROUP

Postdoctoral Associates:

• Ishai Menache

Graduate Students:

• Kostas Bimpikis
• Utku Ozan Candogan
• Kimon Drakopoulos
• Diego Feijer
• Paul Njoroge
• Ali Parandehgheibi
• Noah Stein
• Ermin Wei

• Ilan Lobel (Postdoc, Microsoft Research New England Lab;
  Assistant Professor, Stern School of Business, NYU)
• Chris T.K. Ng (Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent)
• Atilla Eryilmaz (Assistant Professor, Ohio State University)
• Alp Simsek (Ph.D. student, Economics Department, MIT)
• A. Kevin Tang (Assistant Professor, Cornell University)

CURRENT RESEARCH GRANTS

• NSF Career Grant, "Distributed Multiagent Control and Optimization: Where Game Theory Meets Network Optimization"

• ARO, "Game-Theoretic Models of Social Conflict," joint with Prof. Acemoglu (MIT)

• AFOSR/MURI, "Distributed Learning and Information Dynamics in Networked Autonomous Systems," joint with Profs. Shamma, Balcan (Gatech), Abed, Baras, Martins (UMaryland),Young (UOxford), Dahleh, Kaelbling (MIT)

• AFOSR, "Dynamics of Beliefs, Culture, and Social Interaction," joint with Profs. Acemoglu, Dahleh (MIT), Shamma (Gatech)

• NSF, "An Analytic Framework for Political and Social Change: Conflict, Beliefs and Dynamics," joint with Profs. Acemoglu, Dahleh, Shah (MIT)

• NSF, "Optimization and Control of Stochastic Wireless Networks," joint with Prof. Parrilo (MIT)

• DARPA, "ITMANET - The FLoWS project," joint with Profs. Goldsmith, Boyd, Johari (Stanford), Effros (Caltech), Coleman, Meyn, Moulin (UIUC), Medard, Shah, Zheng (MIT)

PAST RESEARCH GRANTS

• AFOSR, "Control Theoretic Modeling for Uncertain Cultural Attitudes and Unknown Adversarial Intent"

• NSF, "Future Optical Network Architectures"

• DARPA, "CBMANET - Control-Based Mobile Ad-hoc Networking project"