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Asu Ozdaglar
Born (1974-12-16) December 16, 1974 (age 49) [1]
NationalityTurkish, American [1]
Alma mater Middle East Technical University (BA)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Known forOptimization, Networks, Machine Learning. EECS Department head at MIT
Scientific career
FieldsApplied Mathematics, Computer Science, Operations Research
Institutions Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisor Dimitri Bertsekas
Notable studentsIlan Lobel, Kostas Bimpikis, Ozan Candogan, Kimon Drakopoulos, Ali Kakhbod, James Siderius, Alireza Fallah.
Website asu.mit.edu

Asu Ozdaglar (born December 16, 1974) [1] is a Turkish academic. [1] [2] [3]

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Early life

She was born to İsmail Özdağlar and Zahide Özdağlar on December 16, 1974. [4] Her father İsmail Özdağlar was a former Minister of State, between December 13, 1983, and January 15, 1985, in the 45th government of Turkey. [5]

Career

She studied in the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara and received a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering in 1996. She then continued her studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States and received her PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 2003. [6] She served as an assistant professor (2003), associate professor (2008) and professor (2012) in the same university. Her research expertise includes optimization, machine learning, economics, and networks. Her recent research focuses on designing incentives and algorithms for data-driven online systems with many diverse human-machine participants. She has investigated issues of data ownership and markets, spread of misinformation on social media, economic and financial contagion, and social learning.

In 2017, she was named the new head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at MIT. Her predecessor Anantha Chandrakasan says: "Professor Ozdaglar is an inspiring researcher and has emerged as a true leader in the areas of optimization theory and algorithms, game theory, and networks." [7]

Personal life

Asu Ozdaglar is married to economist Daron Acemoğlu.

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