Dimitri Bertsekas

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Dimitri P. Bertsekas[2]
Born	1942 Athens, Greece
Nationality	Greek
Citizenship	American, Greece
Alma mater	National Technical University of Athens(1968)[3]
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
Institutions	The George Washington University Stanford University University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis	Control of Uncertain Systems with a Set-Membership Description of the Uncertainty (1971)
Doctoral advisor	Ian Burton Rhodes[1]
Other academic advisors	Michael Athans
Doctoral students	Steven E. Shreve Paul Tseng Asuman Özdağlar[1]

Dimitri Panteli Bertsekas (born 1942, Athens, Greek: Δημήτρης Παντελής Μπερτσεκάς) is an 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.