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Prof. John Tsitsiklis is an esteemed faculty member in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is associated with the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (MIT IDSS), the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (MIT LIDS), and the MIT Operations Research Center (MIT ORC). His research covers optimization, control, learning, and decentralized decision-making. He is the co-author of several foundational texts, including Parallel and Distributed Computation, Neuro-Dynamic Programming, Introduction to Linear Optimization, and Introduction to Probability. Prof. Tsitsiklis is the recipient of multiple prestigious honors, including the ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award, the INFORMS John von Neumann Theory Prize, and the IEEE Control Systems Award. He also holds honorary doctorates from Université Catholique de Louvain, Athens University of Economics and Business, and Harokopio University. He received his B.S. in Mathematics, M.S., and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, all from MIT.