Venkat Anantharam | Risk-Sensitive Control
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Channel: Michigan Engineering · 2016 · Science & Technology
A Relative Entropy Characterization of the Growth Rate of Reward in Risk-Sensitive Control
Venkat Anantharam is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley
(https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ananth/)
Friends and former students of Prof. Demos Teneketzis (http://web.eecs.umich.edu/faculty/teneketzis/) are celebrating his 65th birthday with a Workshop on Information, Decisions, and Networks in his honor.
The title of the workshop reflects the breadth of Demos' research interests. He has made fundamental contributions to information structures in decentralized stochastic control, decentralized sequential detection, multi-armed bandits, scheduling resource allocation and routing in networks, diagnosability in discrete event systems, real-time communication and information theory, mechanism design, energy markets, and cyber-physical security.
In addition, Demos is an exemplary teacher who has educated numerous students on stochastics through his popular courses on stochastic processes and stochastic control. Demos has graduated 21 Ph.D. students, who have gone on to pursue successful careers in academia and industry. He is currently supervising four Ph.D. students.
Workshop Organizers:
Prof. Tara Javidi, University of California, San Diego (http://tjavidi.eng.ucsd.edu/)
Prof. Stéphane Lafortune, University of Michigan (https://www.eecs.umich.edu/eecs/etc/fac/EECSfaculty.html?uniqname=stephane)
Prof. Mingyan Liu, University of Michigan (http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~mingyan/)
Prof. Aditya Mahajan, McGill University (http://www.ece.mcgill.ca/~amahaj1/)
Prof. Ashutosh Nayyar, University of Southern California (http://ee.usc.edu/faculty_staff/faculty_directory/nayyar.htm)
Prof. Shrutivandana Sharma, Singapore University of Technology and Design (http://esd.sutd.edu.sg/faculty/shrutivandana-sharma/)
Sponsors:
Electrical & Computer Engineering at Michigan (https://www.eecs.umich.edu/)
University of Michigan College of Engineering (http://www.engin.umich.edu/college/)
