John N. Tsitsiklis

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue, 32-D632
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, U.S.A.
+1-617-253-6175
jnt@mit.edu

John N. Tsitsiklis is a Clarence J Lebel Professor,
with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at MIT
and the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS).

Also affiliated with: :

Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS)
Statistics and Data Science Center (SDSC)
Operations Research Center (ORC)

Teaching classes mostly on stochastic systems and optimization.
Most recent:

Online: An EdX MOOC (6.431x) on Introduction to Probability [reviews of earlier version]
Residential: Fall 2019: 6.041/6.431, Introduction to Probability

Research on systems, stochastic modeling, inference, optimization, control, etc.

Books:

Introduction to Probability, 2nd ed., 2008 (with D. Bertsekas); also in Chinese and Greek
Introduction to Linear Optimization, 1997 (with D. Bertsimas)
Neuro-dynamic Programming, 1996 (with D. Bertsekas)
Parallel and Distributed Computation: Numerical Methods, 1989 (with D. Bertsekas) [download]

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