Reza Olfati-Saber

Assistant Professor of Engineering
Dartmouth College
Thayer School of Engineering
8000 Cummings Hall, Room M 233
Hanover, NH 03755
olfati@dartmouth.edu

I am an Assistant Professor at Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College and also affiliated with Dartmouth's Institute for Security Technology Studies. Prior to joining Dartmouth, I was a postdoctoral scholar of control and dynamical systems at California Institute of Technology and spent a brief period as a visiting scientist at UCLA.

I received my S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Electrical Enginering and Computer Science in 1997 and 2001, respectively, and my B.S. degree from Sharif University in 1994.

My research interests include sensor networks, swarms, distributed control theory, multi-robot systems, distributed inference and learning, information fusion, complex networks, dynamic social networks, and evolutionary dynamics of behavior. My work combines fundamental concepts and tools from computer science, networks, control theory, physics, discrete mathematics, and behavioral sciences.

News:

NSF CAREER Award, 2008

Selected Publications:

R. Olfati-Saber. "Flocking for Multi-Agent Dynamic Systems: Algorithms and Theory," IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, vol. 51(3), pp. 401-420, Mar. 2006.

R. Olfati-Saber and R. M. Murray. "Consensus Problems in Networks of Agents with Switching Topology and Time-Delays," IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, vol. 49(9), pp. 1520-1533, Sep., 2004.

R. Olfati-Saber, J. A. Fax, and R. M. Murray. "Consensus and Cooperation in Networked Multi-Agent Systems," Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 95, no. 1, pp. 215-233, Jan. 2007.

R. Olfati-Saber. "Evolutionary Dynamics of Behavior in Social Networks," Proc. of the 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Dec. 2007

R. Olfati-Saber. "Distributed Kalman Filtering for Sensor Networks," Proc. of the 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Dec. 2007

R. Olfati-Saber. "Swarms on Sphere: A Programmable Swarm with Synchronous Behaviors like Oscillator Networks," Proc. of the 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Dec. 2006.

R. Olfati-Saber. "Distributed Tracking for Mobile Sensor Networks with Information-Driven Mobility," Proceedings of the 2007 American Control Conference, July 2007.

R. Olfati-Saber. "Distributed Kalman Filter with Embedded Consensus Filters," 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2005 and 2005 European Control Conference, Dec. 2005.

R. Olfati-Saber, E. Franco, E. Frazzoli, and J. S. Shamma. "Belief Consensus and Distributed Hypothesis Testing in Sensor Networks," Workshop on Network Embedded Sensing and Control, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN, Oct. 2005

R. Olfati-Saber. "Ultrafast Consensus in Small-World Networks," Proceedings of the 2005 American Control Conference, pp. 2371-2378, Jun. 2005.

R. Olfati-Saber and R. M. Murray. "Distributed Cooperative Control of Multiple Vehicle Formations using Structural Potential Functions," The 15th IFAC World Congress , Barcelona, Spain, July 2002.