Ali Jadbabaie
JR East Professor of Engineering
Institute for Data, Systems and Society and
Civil and Environmental
Engineering
Principal Investigator, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems
Associate Director, Institute for
Data,
Systems, and Society
Director, Sociotechnical
Systems
Research Center
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Office Address (IDSS and CEE):
Institute for Data Systems and Society
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
E18-309C
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
77 Massachusetts Avenue
1-2900
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
My Google Scholar Citation Page
My Curriculum Vitae (updated August 2018)
My academic genealogy
My audio and video recordings for classical guitar
Research Interests:
- Network Science, Network Economics
- Decision theory
- Consensus and information aggregation in social networks
- Cooperative control of multiagent systems
- Applications of algebraic topology in network science
- Analysis, optimization, and control of networked dynamical systems in physics, engineering and biology
- Optimization, and optimal control of nonlinear and hybrid systems
- Motion coordination and vison-based control of unmanned vehicles
- Dstributed estimation, detection, and online learning
- Spectral graph theory and complex networks
News, Awards and Projects:
- Vassilis Tzoumas is a finalist for the Student Best paper Awara t IEE CDC 2017.
- MIT News story on researching the dynamics of sociopolitical change
- MIT News Cover Story
- DARPA Fundamental Limits of Learning (FunLoL) Program
- LIDS smart Urban Infrastructure Workshop
- Workshop celebrating inaugural year of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, September 22, 23, 2016 at MIT
- 2016 Vannevar Bush (formerly NSSEFF) Fellowship from the Office of Secretary of Defense
- IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering
- A. Jadbabaie leads a 2012 MUltidisciplinary Research Initiative (MURI) by Army Research Office on ``Evolution of Cultural Norms and Dynamics of Socio-Political Change" .
- Energize the Chain. A project to use the excess power of cell-phone towers to power vaccine freezers in remote, off-grid parts of the developing world.
- Dan Koditschek , Vijay Kumar, A. Ribeiro, and A. Jadbabaie, lead an AFOSR MURI on Control Science for Next Generation Sensing
- Slides from the Semi-Plenary Talk at the IEEE CDC 2009 in Shanghai, China
- Michael Kearns and Ali Jadbabaie lead a Multi-Investigator University Research Initiative (MURI) on Next Generation Network Science by Office of Naval Research (ONR)
- Nader Motee's paper wins the Student Best Paper award at the 2007 American Control
Conference in New York.
- NSF Power, Control and Adaptive Networks (PCAN) program, Topological methods for distributed coverage problems in
mobile sensing networks .
- SToMP in Science News: Sensor Sensibility.
- The paper "Distributed coordination of mobile autonomous agents," which
appeared in the June 2003 issue of IEEE
Transactions on Automatic Contol
wins the 2005 George S. Axelby Best paper award of the IEEE Control Systems Society.
The award is given every year for the best paper in the
IEEE Transactions on Automatic control in the previous
two calendar years.
- 2004 ONR Young Investigator Award.
for proposal entitled, "An optimization-based approach to distributed coordination of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles"
one of the total of 26 awarded in all areas of science and engineering.
- NSF CAREER Award.
- Featured on NSF website on Knowledge and Distributed
Intelligence.
- NSF CNS Program, Scalable approach to
reachability analysis and safety verification of hybrid
systems" with Calin Belta (BU) and Vijay Kumar (Penn).
- ARO MURI, Adaptive Coordinated Control of Intelligent Multiagent Teams.
Berkeley (lead institution). Other teams: Penn,
CMU.
- ARO MURI SWARMS: Scalabale sWarms of Autonomous Robots and Mobile Sensors"
Penn (lead institution), Other members:
Yale, UCSB, MIT, Berkeley.
- ONR Mathematical, Computer and Information Sciences Division, "Vision-based distributed coordination of multi-vehicle
systems."
- DARPA DSO, "SToMP: Sensor Topology for
Minimal Planning , a Multi-investogator project lead by UIUC, with coPIs from CMU, Penn,
and other places.
Educational Background:
Current Graduate Students
Andreea Alexandru (2015 - ) (jointly advised with Prof. George
Pappas)
Chulhee (Charlie) Yun (2016-) PhD student (jointly advised with prof. Subrit Sra), EECS, MIT.
Jingzhao Zhang (2017- ) PhD student (jlointly advised with prof. Suvrit Sra), EECS, MIT.
Amir Tohidi , Social and Engineering Systems PhD program (2017 - ), IDSS, MIT
Paolo Bertolotti, Social and Engineering Systems PhD program (2017 - ), IDSS, MIT
Manon Revel, MS student, Technology and Policy (TPP) Masters program (jointly advised with Prof. Munzer Dahleh), MIT
Postdoctoral Scholars and Research Scientists
Amir Ajorlou, Ph.D.,
Concordia University. Research Scientist, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, MIT
Alan Malek , Ph.D., UC Berkeley
Milad Siami , PhD, Lehigh University
Michael Schaub , Ph.D., Marie Curie Fellow, PhD, Applied Mathematics, Imperial College, London, UK
Aryan Mokhtari , Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Former Graduate Students at Penn
Alex Stewart (jointly supervised by Prof. Dan Lee) (2006-2007), M.S., now a senior Engineer at Oxbotica
Stamatina Lamprinakou (2013-2014), M.S., PhD student at Columbia
Univerity
Ali Ahmadzadeh (2003-2008), PhD, Lead Quantitative Analyst at Constellation Energy Group
Nima Moshtagh (2003-2008), Ph.D., Senior Staff Engineer, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Nader Motee (2003-2007), Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lehigh University
Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi
(2004-2009), Ph.D., Associate Professor, Manegerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Business, Northwestern University
Jaelynn Oh (Wharton OPIM) (2011-2013), Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Operations & Information Systems Department, David Eccles School of Business, The
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Pooya Molavi
(2008-2013), Ph.D., PhD student, Department of Economics, MIT
Michael Zargham
(2008-2014), Director of Data Science, Cross Media Networks
Chinwendu Enyioha
(2008-2014), Asistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Central Florida (starting July 2018)
Arastoo Fazeli
(2008-2014),Ph.D., Data Scientist at YouTube
Shahin
Shahrampour Assistant professor, Industrial Engineering, Texas A & M University (starting July 2018)
Saad Aleem (2013-2016), M.S., Staff Engineeer, Oracle
Rasul Tutunov (CIS) (2011-2017, Data Scientists, Prowler, Cambridge, UK)
Hoda Heidari (CIS) (jointly supervised with Prof. Michael Kearns) (2011-2017), postdoctoral associate at ETH
Amin Rahimian (2012-2017), IDSS postdoctoral fellow, MIT
Vassilis Tzoumas (2012-2018) (jointly supervised with Geroge Pappas), postdoctoral fellow, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, MITn (starting July 2018)
Former Postdoctoral Scholars
Santiago Segarra (2016-2018), Assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
Ali Kakhbod (2012-2014),
currently postdoctoral scholar at MIT Laboratory for Information and
Decision Systems and PhD student at MIT Economics
Abubakr Muhammad (2006-2007), currently an associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Lahore University of Management Sciences
Nader Motee (2007-2008), currently an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics at Lehigh University
Usman Khan (2009-2010), currently associte professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Tufts University
Victor Preciado (2008-2012), currently associate professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering at University of Pennsylvania
Serban Sabau (2012-2013), (Ph.D., University of Maryland, 2011), Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology
Courses Taught at Penn (2002-2016)