Distinguished Hariri Institute/CISE Seminar: Asu Ozdaglar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Date: Friday, April 26, 2024, 3:00pm-4:00pm
Location: 665 Commonwealth Avenue, CDS 1750

Speaker: Asu Ozdaglar, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Talk title: Independent Learning Dynamics for Stochastic Games: Convergence and Finite-Time Analysis

Bio: Asu Ozdaglar is the Mathworks Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is the department head of EECS and deputy dean of academics of the Schwarzman College of Computing at MIT. Her research expertise includes optimization, machine learning, economics, and networks. Her recent research focuses on designing incentives and algorithms for data-driven online systems with many diverse human-machine participants. She has investigated issues of data ownership and markets, spread of misinformation on social media, economic and financial contagion, and social learning.

Professor Ozdaglar is the recipient of a Microsoft fellowship, the MIT Graduate Student Council Teaching award, the NSF Career award, the 2008 Donald P. Eckman award of the American Automatic Control Council, the 2014 Spira teaching award, and Keithley, Distinguished School of Engineering and Mathworks professorships. She is an IEEE fellow, IFAC fellow, and was selected as an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians. She received her Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT in 2003.

Faculty Host: Ayşe Coşkun
Student Host: Andres Chavez Armijos