Dimitri Bertsekas

Updated: 12/30/2019 by Computer Hope
Dimitri P. Bertsekas

Name: Dimitri P. Bertsekas

Born: 1942 in Athens, Greece

Computer-related contributions

  • Applied mathematician, computer scientist, and a professor at the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
  • Known for Convex optimization, Approximate Dynamic Programming, Dynamic Programming, Stochastic systems and Optimal Control.

Significant publications

  • Stochastic Optimal Control: The Discrete-Time Case (1978).
  • Constrained Optimization and Lagrange Multiplier Methods (1982).
  • Parallel and Distributed Computation: Numerical Methods (1989).
  • Linear Network Optimization (1991).
  • Neuro-Dynamic Programming (1996).
  • Dynamic Programming and Optimal Control (1996).
  • Nonlinear Programming (1996).
  • Network Optimization: Continuous and Discrete Models (1998).
  • Convex Analysis and Optimization (2002).
  • Introduction to Probability (2003).
  • Convex Optimization Theory (2009).

Honors and awards

  • INFORMS ICS Prize.
  • Greek National Award for Operations Research.
  • ACC John R. Ragazzini Education Award.
  • Member of the United States National Academy of Engineering.
  • 2009 INFORMS Expository Writing Award.

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