Ali Jadbabaie

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Ali Jadbabaie
Alma mater California Institute of Technology
University of New Mexico
Sharif University of Technology
Scientific career
Fields Control theory, Network Science, Robotics,
Institutions Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Academic advisors John Doyle and Richard M. Murray

Ali Jadbabaie is an Iranian-American systems scientist and decision theorist and the JR East Professor of Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to joining MIT, he was the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Network Science in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania and a postdoc at the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Yale University under A. Stephen Morse (2001–2002). [1] [2] Jadbabaie is an internationally renowned expert in the control and coordination of multi-robot formations, distributed optimization, network economics, and network science. He is currently the head of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at MIT. Previously he served as the Associate director of the Institute for Data, Systems and Society (IDSS) at MIT and was the program Head for the Social and Engineering Systems PhD program. He was a cofounder and director of the Singh Program in Networked & Social Systems Engineering (NETS) at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. [3] [4]

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References

  1. "Oral-History:A. Stephen Morse". Engineering Technology & History Wiki (ETHW). 26 January 2021. Retrieved 25 October 2022.
  2. Jadbabaie, Ali. "About Ali". Ali Jadbabaie. Retrieved 25 October 2022.
  3. Jadbabaie, A.; Lin, J.; Morse, A.S. (2003). "Coordination of groups of mobile autonomous agents using nearest neighbor rules". IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 48 (6): 988–1001. doi:10.1109/TAC.2003.812781.
  4. Tanner, H.G.; Jadbabaie, A.; Pappas, G.J. (2003). "Stable flocking of mobile agents, part I: fixed topology". Decision and Control, 2003. Proceedings. 42nd IEEE Conference on. Vol. 2. doi:10.1109/CDC.2003.1272910.