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Reza Olfati-Saber

Assistant Professor of Engineering

1-603-646-0204
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

ENGS 26: Control Theory
ENGS 114: Networked Multi-Agent Systems
ENGS 202: Nonlinear Systems

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

News

Engineering Professor Receives Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
Dartmouth Now
September 11, 2010
Two Dartmouth professors recognized with CAREER Awards from NSF
Dartmouth News
January 28, 2008
In the Spotlight: New Members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
VOX of Dartmouth
September 25, 2006

In Dartmouth Engineer Magazine

The New Guard: Thayer's eight new tenure-track assistant professors will influence the next few generations of students.
Winter 2011
Kudos
Winter 2011
Complex Systems: Tackling surprises in multi-component systems, from human behavior to robotic smarts
Summer 2010
Kudos
Summer 2008
Moving Forward: Dean Joseph Helble explains three new initiatives for maximizing Thayer School's impact on the world
Spring/Summer 2007
Cummings and Goings: Three Profs Arrive, Three Depart
Fall 2005