Reza Olfati-Saber

Assistant Professor of Engineering
603/646-0204
Reza.Olfati.Saber@Dartmouth.edu

Education

B.S., Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, 1994
S.M., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT 1997
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT 2001

Research Interests

Distributed control and robotics; networked systems; sensor networks; swarms and self-organizing systems; information fusion; multi-agent systems; evolution of behavior in social networks.

Current Research Projects

Teaching, 2009-2011

ENGS 26 Control Theory (course description)
ENGS 114 Networked Multi-Agent Systems (course description)
ENGS 202 Nonlinear Systems (course description)

Selected Publications

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, January 2007.
Olfati-Saber, R., "Flocking for Multi-Agent Dynamic Systems: Algorithms and Theory," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 401-420, Mar. 2006.
Olfati-Saber, R., "Distributed Kalman Filter with Embedded Consensus Filters," Proc. of the joint IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and the European Control Conference, Seville, Spain, Dec. 2005.
Olfati-Saber, R. and R. M. Murray, "Consensus Problems for Networks of Dynamic Agents with Switching Topology and Time-Delays," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 49, no. 9, pp. 1520-1533, Sep. 2004.
Olfati-Saber, R. and R. M. Murray, "Distributed Cooperative Control of Multiple Vehicle Formations using Structural Potential Functions," Proc. of the 15th IFAC World Congress, Barcelona, Spain, July 2002.

Awards

National Science Foundation CAREER award, 2008
Lotfi Zadeh outstanding student paper award at the NAFIPS Conference, 1996.

Professional Activities

Member of the IEEE and elected member of the Sigma Xi Scientific Society
Member of the Organizing Committee, the 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans, LA, December 2007
Reviewer for conferences and journals, including Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, IEEE Transctions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Physics Letters A, Systems and Control Letters, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, International Journal of Information Fusion, International Journal of Control, and IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics
Chairman and organizer of invited session on "Distributed Estimation in Sensor Networks," 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Dec. 2006.
Chairman of session on "Swarms and Self-Organizing Systems," 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Dec. 2006.