Distributed Algorithms: Tsitsiklis and Beyond

Tuesday, May 15, 2018 - 3:00pm to Wednesday, May 16, 2018 - 2:55pm

Event Calendar Category

LIDS Seminar Series

Speaker Name

Vivek Borkar

Affiliation

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Building and Room Number

32-141

Abstract

This talk will recall Tsitsiklis' formulation of distributed algorithms with consensus and point out its generalizations in some directions, particularly an extension to distributed stochastic approximation with projection. This is joint work with Advaitvedant Mathkar and Suhail Mohmad Shah.

Biography

Prof. Borkar is Institute Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering at IIT Bombay, Mumbai. He obtained his Ph.D. in EECS from the University of California at Berkeley in 1980 and has since worked at TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics and Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai before taking up his current position in 2011. His research interests are stochastic optimization and control, encompassing theory, algorithms, and applications. He is a Fellow of IEEE, AMS, TWAS and the science and engineering academies in India.