Dimitri Bertsekas

At-a-Glance

Fulton Professor of Computational Decision Making at Arizona State University since 2019.
Founded Athena Scientific in 1995, a publishing company.
Research spans optimization, control, large-scale computation, reinforcement learning, and artificial intelligence.
Authored twenty books and research monographs, some used as textbooks at MIT and ASU.
Serves as Chief Scientific Advisor of Bayforest Technologies, a London-based quantitative investment company, since 2023.
Holds a Ph.D. in system science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1971).

Biography

Dimitri Bertsekas is the Fulton Professor of Computational Decision Making and a full-time faculty member at the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence at Arizona State University (ASU) since 2019. Prior to this, he held faculty positions at Stanford University (1971-1974) and the University of Illinois, Urbana (1974-1979). From 1979 to 2019, he was with the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of M.

I.T., where he served as McAfee Professor of Engineering.