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Prof. Navid Azizan
Esther and Harold E Edgerton Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Primary DLC
Department of Mechanical Engineering
MIT Room:
45-541D
(617) 715-4273
azizan@mit.edu
https://azizan.mit.edu/
Assistant
Olga Novak
(617) 258-8773
olgan23@mit.edu
Areas of Interest and Expertise
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Systems and Control
Mathematical Optimization
Network Science
Autonomy
AI for Safety-Critical Systems
Smart Grid
Research Summary
Azizan’s research interests broadly lie in machine learning, control theory, mathematical optimization, and network science. He has made fundamental contributions to various aspects of intelligent systems, including the design and analysis of optimization algorithms for nonconvex and networked problems with applications to the smart grid, distributed computation, epidemics, and autonomy. Azizan’s work has been recognized by several awards, including the 2020 Information Theory and Applications (ITA) Graduation-Day Gold Award. He was named an Amazon Fellow in Artificial Intelligence in 2017 and a PIMCO Fellow in Data Science in 2018. His research on electricity markets received the ACM GREENMETRICS Best Student Paper Award in 2016. He was also the first-place winner and a gold medalist at the 2008 National Physics Olympiad in Iran. He co-organizes the popular “Control meets Learning” virtual seminar series.
Recent Work
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