Dimitri Bertsekas
Dimitri P. Bertsekas | |
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| Δημήτρης Π. Μπερτσεκάς | |
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| Born | July 9, 1942 Athens, German-occupied Greece |
| Died | June 3, 2026 (aged 83) |
| Citizenship | American, Greek |
| Education | NTUA George Washington University MIT |
| Known for | Nonlinear programming Convex optimization Dynamic programming Approximate dynamic programming Stochastic systems and Optimal control Data communication network optimization |
| Awards | 1997 INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) Prize 1999 Greek National Award for Operations Research 2001 John R. Ragazzini Award 2001 Member of the United States National Academy of Engineering 2009 INFORMS Expository Writing Award 2014 AACC Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award 2014 INFORMS Khachiyan Prize 2015 SIAM/MOS Dantzig Prize 2018 INFORMS John von Neumann Theory Prize 2022 IEEE Control Systems Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Optimization, Mathematics, Control theory, and Data communication networks |
| Workplaces | UIUC Stanford University MIT Arizona State University |
| Thesis | Control of Uncertain Systems with a Set-Membership Description of the Uncertainty (1971) |
| Ian Burton Rhodes | |
Other academic advisors | Michael Athans |
Doctoral students | Steven E. Shreve Paul Tseng Asuman Özdağlar |
Dimitri Panteli Bertsekas (Greek: Δημήτρης Παντελής Μπερτσεκάς; July 9, 1942 – June 3, 2026) was a Greek-American applied mathematician, electrical engineer and computer scientist, a McAfee Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in School of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, and also a Fulton Professor of Computational Decision Making at Arizona State University, Tempe.