John Tsitsiklis

John Tsitsiklis is a Clarence J. Lebel Professor in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Director of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems in the Institute for Data, Systems and Society. His research interests are in the fields of systems, optimization, control, and operations research. Tsitsiklis is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. Tsitsiklis has received an Association for Computing Machinery’s Sigmetrics Achievement Award and an IEEE Control Systems Award. He earned a BS in mathematics, and a BS, MS, and PhD in electrical engineering, from MIT.

Publications

• Sharifnassab, A., Tsitsiklis, J.N., Golestani, S.J. (2019). Sensitivity to Cumulative Perturbations for a Class of Piecewise Constant Hybrid Systems. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
• Schaub, M.T., Segarra, S., Tsitsiklis, J.N. (2019). Fluctuation Bounds for the Max-Weight Policy, with Applications to State Space Collapse. to appear in Stochastic Systems.
• Markakis, M.G., Modiano, E., Tsitsiklis, J.N. (2018). Delay Analysis of the Max-Weight Policy under Heavy-Tailed Traffic via Fluid Approximations. Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 460-493.
• J Tsitsiklis, J.N., Xu, K. (2018). Delay-Predictability Trade-offs in Reaching a Secret Goal. Operations Research, Vol. 66, No. 2, pp. 587-596.

Media

• May 10, 2019: MIT News, Building a community for statistics and data science at MIT and beyond.
• March 20, 2017: MIT News, John Tsitsiklis appointed director of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems.