Ali Jadbabaie is an Iranian-American systems scientist and decision theorist and the JR East Professor of Engineering at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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. 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
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and a postdoc at the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at
Yale University
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under
A. Stephen Morse
A. Stephen Morse (born June 18, 1939) is the Dudley Professor of distributed control and adaptive control in electrical engineering at Yale University. (2001–2002).
Jadbabaie is an internationally renowned expert in the control and coordination of multi-robot formations, distributed optimization,
network economics
In economics, a network effect (also called network externality or demand-side economies of scale) is the phenomenon by which the value or utility a user derives from a good or service depends on the number of users of compatible products. Netw ...
, 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
at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Education
* Ph.D. Control and Dynamical Systems, October 2000,
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
* M.S. Electrical Engineering, December 1997,
University of New Mexico
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, Albuquerque, NM, USA
* B.S. Electrical Engineering, February 1995,
Sharif University of Technology
Sharif University of Technology (SUT; fa, دانشگاه صنعتی شریف) is a public research university in Tehran, Iran. It is widely considered as the nation's most prestigious and leading institution for science, technology, engineering, ...
, Tehran, Iran
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Control theorists
Iranian roboticists
Sharif University of Technology alumni
Living people
American roboticists
Fellows of the IEEE
Year of birth missing (living people)