DIMITRI P. BERTSEKAS

Biographical Sketch

Dimitri P. Bertsekas received a combined B.S.E.E. and B.S.M.E. from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, an M.S.E.E. from George Washington University, and a Ph.D. in system science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dr. Bertsekas has held faculty positions with the Engineering-Economic Systems Dept., Stanford University (1971-1974) and the Electrical Engineering Dept. of the University of Illinois, Urbana (1974-1979). Since 1979 he has been teaching at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), where he is currently McAfee Professor of Engineering. He consults regularly with private industry and has held editorial positions in several journals. His research at M.I.T. spans several fields, including optimization, control, large-scale computation, and data communication networks, and is closely tied to his teaching and book authoring activities. He has written numerous research papers, and thirteen books, several of which are used as textbooks in MIT classes.

Professor Bertsekas was awarded the INFORMS 1997 Prize for Research Excellence in the Interface Between Operations Research and Computer Science for his book "Neuro-Dynamic Programming" (co-authored with John Tsitsiklis), the 2000 Greek National Award for Operations Research, and the 2001 ACC John R. Ragazzini Education Award. In 2001, he was elected to the United States National Academy of Engineering.

Dr. Bertsekas' recent books are "Introduction to Probability" (2002), "Convex Analysis and Optimization" (2003), "Dynamic Programming and Optimal Control: 3rd Edition" (2007), all published by Athena Scientific. He is writing a new book on Convex Optimization Theory (to appear in 2008).

Besides his professional activities, Professor Bertsekas is interested in travel, portrait, and landscape photography. His pictures have been exhibited on several occasions at M.I.T., and can also be accessed from his www site.

Papers and Reports

Complete List of Publications, Research Papers.

Textbooks

Professor Bertsekas is the author of

Dynamic Programming and Stochastic Control, Academic Press, 1976,
Constrained Optimization and Lagrange Multiplier Methods, Academic Press, 1982, and Athena Scientific, 1996,
Dynamic Programming: Deterministic and Stochastic Models, Prentice-Hall, 1987,
Linear Network Optimization: Algorithms and Codes, MIT Press, 1991,
Dynamic Programming and Optimal Control, Vols. I and II, Athena Scientific, 1995, (Vol. I: 3rd Edition, 2005), (Vol. II: 2nd Edition, 2001),
Nonlinear Programming, Athena Scientific, 1995 (2nd Edition, 1999),
Network Optimization: Continuous and Discrete Models, Athena Scientific, 1998,
Convex Analysis and Optimization, Athena Scientific, March 2003.

and co-author of

Stochastic Optimal Control: The Discrete-Time Case, Academic Press, 1978, and Athena Scientific, 1996,
Data Networks, Prentice-Hall, 1987 (2nd Ed. 1991),
Parallel and Distributed Computation: Numerical Methods, Prentice-Hall, 1989, and Athena Scientific, 1997,
Neuro-Dynamic Programming, Athena Scientific, 1996,
Introduction to Probability, Athena Scientific, 2002.

Research

Professor Bertsekas has done research in the areas of

linear and nonlinear programming
network optimization
dynamic and neuro-dynamic programming
estimation and control of stochastic systems
neural networks
parallel and distributed computation
data communication networks

and has written numerous research papers in each of these areas.

Teaching

Professor Bertsekas teaches graduate courses at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in